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Father Hugh Gallagher built Virginia City's first Catholic church shortly after his arrival in 1860, but a strong wind blew... -
Tony Cornero, a one-time 1920s bootlegger from California and a former casino operator well known in Las Vegas, opened the S.S... -
Comstock mining began in 1859 with open pits at Gold Hill to the south and Virginia City to the north. Within months, the Ophir... -
The settlement of Sparks sprang up virtually overnight when officials of the Southern Pacific Railroad moved maintenance... -
The first speakers of Spanish in the western Great Basin came from Mexico and California as well as South and Central America.... -
Soda Lake, 10 km northwest of Fallon, Nevada, was not identified as a geothermal resource until drilling for a water well...