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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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    • Ron Kwiek
      For those who believe that art is simply a by-product of leisure, consider the extraordinary career of Nevada painter Ron Kwiek...
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    • Roman Catholicism in Nevada
       Roman Catholicism in Nevada Churches in early Nevada history were often the focus of their members’ social lives....
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    • Rollin Mallory Daggett
      Born in New York in 1832, Rollin Daggett moved to Ohio when he was five and eventually worked there as a printer. At seventeen...
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    • Rock Art of Nevada
      “Rock art” is the collective term for a variety of forms of visual representation made on natural rocky surfaces (...
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    • Robert Heizer
      Robert Fleming Heizer was one of two towering figures who dominated Great Basin archaeology after World War II. Heizer, of the...
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    • Robert G. Schofield
      English-born Robert G. Schofield (1838-1915) regularly placed advertisements in the Pioche Record that touted his skills as a...
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