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In the decades after 1900, scholars and researchers from across the United States and Europe began traveling to Nevada to study... -
Throughout the United States, many early encounters between native tribes and non-natives were tense—even hostile—... -
George Whittell Jr. was born in 1881 to one of San Francisco's wealthiest families. He never worked a day in his life,... -
When Jay Sarno designed his Caesars Palace hotel-casino, which opened on the Las Vegas Strip in 1966, he envisioned it as a... -
Charles Springer was at the center of many important political developments in Nevada. Born in Reno on February 20, 1928, and... -
Nevada territorial Supreme Court Justice John Wesley North played an important role in the pivotal single ledge case. Born in...