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Indisputably, women were in the minority in nineteenth-century Nevada. Mining boomtowns attracted single men more quickly than... -
An early wagon road dating to the 1850s ascended north from Dayton along Gold Canyon, eventually reaching Virginia City. After... -
An itinerant poet at heart, Gary Short has surveyed the universe of Guatemala, Albania, Mexico and, most recently, Tasmania.... -
Garter snakes (genus Thamnophis) are the familiar striped "garden snakes" of North America. All of them bear live... -
In May 1958, Reno and San Francisco newspapers announced that Gareth Hughes, Welsh-born silent screen celebrity and... -
As World War II raged in Europe in 1941, the British government found itself short of magnesium alloy. The metal—a third...