Online Nevada Encyclopedia

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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    • John Wesley North
      Nevada territorial Supreme Court Justice John Wesley North played an important role in the pivotal single ledge case. Born in...
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    • John Ross Browne
      During two brief Nevada sojourns, John Ross Browne, traveler, author, and artist, created an invaluable portrait of the...
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    • John Piper
      John Piper was a young German immigrant operating a fruit stand in San Francisco when he, his wife, and brothers joined the...
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    • John Livermore
      John Livermore is a former Newmont Mining Exploration geologist credited with locating or collaborating in the location of at...
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    • John Kell Houssels
      John Kell (J. Kell) Houssels, Sr. (1895-1979) turned a small card parlor on Fremont Street in downtown Las Vegas into a...
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    • John Gutzon Borglum
      John Gutzon Borglum is included in the Online Nevada Encyclopedia on the basis of one work: his statue of the Nevada mining...
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