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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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    • Carroll Dolve: An Oral History
      Carroll Dolve: A Contribution to a Survey of Life and Structures on the Comstock Interviewee: Carroll DolveInterviewed:...
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    • Bernice Auchoberry: An Oral History
      Bernice Auchoberry: A Contribution to a Survey of Life in Carson Valley from First Settlement through the 1950s Interviewee:...
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    • Ruth D. Achard and Margaret D. McDonald: An Oral History
      Ruth D. Achard and Margaret D. McDonald: A Contribution to a Survey of Life in Carson Valley from First Settlement through the...
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    • Phyllis J. Walsh: An Oral History
      Phyllis J. Walsh: From Lorgnettes to Lariats – In Loving Recollection of the S Bar S Ranch, Where Work Hardened Our Hands...
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    • Harry Hawkins: An Oral History
      Harry Hawkins: Douglas-Alpine History Interviewee: Harry HawkinsInterviewed: 1965Published: 1967Interviewer: Mary Ellen...
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    • H. Clyde Mathews, Jr.: An Oral History
      Oral Autobiography of a Modern-­Day Baptist Minister­, Life in California, Missionary to the Reno­Sparks Indian...
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