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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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    • A Story of Encounters: Work and Community Life
      Many of Nevada’s native and non-native residents developed closer familiarity and genuine friendships by working...
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    • A Story of Encounters: Archeological Sites
      From L.L. Loud’s excavation of Lovelock Cave in 1912 to the present day, archaeologists have gravitated to sites...
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    • A Story of Encounters: Topics of Archeological and Anthropological Study
      Beginning in the early decades of the twentieth century, researchers produced an extraordinary amount of knowledge about Nevada...
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    • A Story of Encounters: Anthropologists, Archeologists, and Other Researchers
      Anthropological study is generally divided into four sub-disciplines: cultural anthropology, physical anthropology, linguistics...
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    • A Story of Encounters: Reservations and Indian Schools
      Nevada’s indigenous communities did not share the same traditional notions of property as those of American and European...
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    • A Story of Encounters: Colonization and Settlement
      Early Euro-American fur trappers, scouts, and emigrants passing through the Great Basin understandably raised concerns among...
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