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Jews were among the first to provide the essential mercantile infrastructure for Nevada's mining towns and camps. Their... -
When Nevada's ore production dropped precipitously after 1877, the population steadily declined and public officials... -
A.V. Wilson and R. Chanrock discovered silver at Jefferson Canyon in Nye County's Toquima Range in 1865, but it was not...
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Jeanne Russell Janish was the first female graduate from Stanford University with a master's degree in geology. Her...
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Jay Sarno, one-time motel developer with ties to the corrupt Teamsters Union, arrived in Las Vegas in the early 1960s. He soon... -
Nevada's only territorial governor, James Warren Nye, was born in New York on June 10, 1814 or 1815, the seventh of ten...