A little Nevada history


Red Rock Canyon Clark County Heritage Museum

 
Did you know...
Samuel Clemens, better know as Mark Twain, started his literary career writing for the the Territorial Enterprise in Virginia City, Nevada.

This is what their office looked like in 1861.  The same year Samuel Clemens signed on as secretary to his brother, the first secretary of the State of Nevada Territory.  One year later he would go to work for the "Enterprise."


Homicides and some of its causes

Reproduced list of homicides in Nevada between 1846 and 1866. 

List was compiled in 1881.

A photographic history

Pictures found at the National Archives that give the best depiction of Nevada life in the early days.


 
Nevada Women
 
 

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Created by Patricia Desmond