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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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    • Milton Badt
      Milton Benjamin Badt (1884-1966) considered himself a Nevadan although he was born in San Francisco and received most of his...
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    • Milling Technology in the Nineteenth Century
      One of the greatest challenges the mining industry faces is the extraction of resources from ore, the material that encases...
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    • Midas
      The town of Midas, located in northeast Nevada, existed for roughly the first half of the twentieth century due to mining...
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    • Michael Heizer
      Michael Heizer's roots in Nevada go deep, back to his grandfather Ott F. Heizer, a mining engineer in Lovelock in the 1880s...
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    • Methodism in Nevada Part II
      A Bridge Spanning Two Centuries Beginning in 1878, Nevada mineral production steadily eroded over the next thirty years. The...
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    • Methodism in Nevada Part I
      Origins The United Methodist Church in Nevada has its roots in a spiritual awakening among members of the Anglican Church in...
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