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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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    • Players on the Strip
      The Las Vegas Strip of the 1940s and 1950s epitomized its times. Hollywood was peaking and television was entering every...
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    • Placer Mining
      With the California Gold Rush, fortune seekers flooded into the West. Thousands scattered into every Sierra ravine looking for...
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    • Pioneer Club
      Las Vegas has its share of icons, but few are better known or longer lasting than "Vegas Vic," the huge neon-lit...
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    • Pioche
      Pioche, the county seat of Lincoln County, is a twice-active, now-dormant mining camp near the Highland Range of eastern Nevada...
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    • Pinyon-juniper Woodlands
      Pinyon-juniper woodlands comprise one of Nevada's most extensive vegetation types, occupying 14,178 square miles, or...
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    • Pinyon Jays and Pinyon Pines
      In a dry woodland a high-pitched, nasal call is heard in the distance, then another and another. As the calls become louder and...
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