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African Americans on the Comstock

African Americans came to the western Great Basin in the 1850s. Read more about this history.

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Reno

Reno has always been a town of contrasts. Find out more about its natural beauty, darkness and cosmopolitan edge.

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    • William Vaughn Howard
      It is not difficult to locate William Vaughn Howard (1921-1986) along the spectrum of art movements in the United States when...
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    • Anti-Semitism in Nevada
      Except in a few published writings, blatant anti-Semitism was a rarity in nineteenth century Nevada. After 1900, mean-spirited...
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    • William Wright, aka Dan De Quille
      Most who knew William Wright, a colleague of Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) on Virginia City’s Territorial Enterprise,...
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    • Ann Ronald
      A native of the Pacific Northwest, Ann Ronald was born in 1939. She migrated to the high desert of Northern Nevada in 1970 to...
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    • Andrew S. Hallidie
      Andrew S. Hallidie was the inventor of the flat wire cable, a device that made it possible to send elevators into deep, hard...
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    • Winnemucca
      The site of modern-day Winnemucca has been important to Nevada since the first explorers traversed the region in the late 1820s...
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