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Popular imagination links the Irish with the building of America's transcontinental railroad. Irish track layers dominated... -
Silver discoveries at Union Canyon in the Shoshone Mountains by P. A. Havens in 1863 led to the formation of Ione. In 1864,... -
The International Hotel, known today as the Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino, was the first "megaresort" built... -
The International Community of Christ has had a presence in Northern Nevada since its founder, Douglas Eugene “Gene... -
The "Progressive Era" of American political reform (1890s through 1920s) brought three populist provisions to the... -
Idah Meacham Strobridge deserves her identification as the "first woman of Nevada letters" for the vivid evocation of...