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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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    • Patrick A. McCarran and National Issues
      United States Senator Patrick McCarran represented the least populated state in the Union from 1933 to 1954. Despite Nevada...
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    • Panaca
      Founded in 1864, the town of Panaca in Meadow Valley, Lincoln County, is the oldest Anglo-American community in eastern Nevada...
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    • Pair-O-Dice Club and Early Las Vegas Strip
      In the early 1930s, as the popularity of nightclubs grew in downtown Las Vegas, two casino-nightclubs were built several miles...
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    • Owyhee
      Located in northeastern Nevada near the Idaho border, Owyhee slowly emerged after the establishment of the Duck Valley Indian...
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    • Ormsby County Courthouse
      Carson City has served simultaneously as the county seat of Ormsby County, and the state capital. The county was established in...
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    • Opium Smoking on the Comstock
      Chinese gold rush miners and railroad workers brought the practice of opium smoking to America's West Coast by the mid-...
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