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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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    • Aladdin Hotel
      The Aladdin Hotel was the first major casino to open on the Las Vegas Strip in the 1960s, eight years after the area's...
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    • Al Livingston
      Al Livingston, one of Nevada's first settlers, became an architect of a tourism approach to the state's budget woes at...
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    • Zoria Zetaruk
      Zoria Zetaruk is a unique Nevada treasure. She was born in Alberta, Canada, to Ukrainian immigrant parents and grew up with the...
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    • Al Freeman
      The 1950s and 1960s were the halcyon days of Las Vegas hotel publicists. Throughout those two decades, men like Herb McDonald,...
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    • Al Cahlan
      Albert E. "Al" Cahlan was one of the most influential newspapermen in Las Vegas history. Born in Reno in 1899, he...
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    • African Methodist Episcopal Church in Virginia City
      The African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church and congregation in Virginia City functioned as one of two congregations organized...
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