• When the troubled Club Bingo resort, on the northern end of the Las Vegas Strip, went bankrupt in 1950 after three years in...
    • The main contribution to American literature from Nevada's mining frontier, 1859 to 1914, was the writing of the Sagebrush...
    • The Rye Patch (Humboldt, or Humboldt House) geothermal area is located in the Humboldt River valley 50 km north of Lovelock,...
    • A native Nevadan who bridged the old and new in the state's history, Ruthe Deskin was an influential Las Vegas journalist...
    • The Ruth mining claim, named and discovered by D. C. MacDonald in 1897, did not show much promise in the beginning. Gold and...
    • In early 1906, Louis Gordon discovered high grade gold deposits in the heart of the Toquima Mountains in Nye County. By spring...