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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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    • W.H.C. Stephenson
      Dr. W. H. C. Stephenson (1825–18??) was northern Nevada's most prominent African-American citizen in the nineteenth...
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    • Leavitt House, Bunkerville, Clark County
      Thomas Dudley Leavitt and twenty-two other Latter-day Saints established the utopian community of Bunkerville in 1877 under the...
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    • Wabuska Hot Springs
      The Wabuska geothermal area is located at the margin of Mason Valley, in Lyon County, Nevada, where both the valley margin and...
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    • Leaving Las Vegas
      Leaving Las Vegas (1995) is a much-honored film about the brief bonding of a prostitute and a suicidal alcoholic planning to...
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    • Lear Theatre
      The Lear Theater occupies the historic First Church of Christ, Scientist, in the Truckee River Arts District. In 2011, the...
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    • Waddie Mitchell
      Waddie Mitchell has become an icon of Nevada, of buckaroo culture (cowboys of the Great Basin), and of cowboy poetry. Born in...
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