History

Thunderbird Lodge
Spring 2023

Legendary Nevadans: Howard Hughes
Spring 2023
But above all, Hughes was a shrewd capitalist. To best understand this, look no further than the four years he spent in Las Vegas.

The Haunting of Lincoln Hall
Winter 2022-2023

Sarah Winnemucca
Winter 2022-2023
Within a year of her birth, Winnemucca’s grandfather encountered John C. Frémont—one of the area’s first white explorers—at what is now Pyramid Lake.

A Portal Through Time
Winter 2022-2023
The tunnel and adjacent ghost town were closed to visitors for decades, yet the portal remained as a reminder of Comstock Lode and Nevada history. In 2021, Friends of Sutro Tunnel acquired the 150-year-old property, and today, visitors are invited to wander back in time to explore this historic site.

The Evolution of Nevada’s Flag
Fall 2022

Silent Echo Bay
Fall 2021

Nevada’s First Jewish Temple Turns 100
Fall 2021
Jewish merchants from the East Coast and Europe joined the mass migration to California in the late 1840s, seeking prosperity as suppliers of goods and services just as they had done back home. When The Comstock Lode hit in 1859, hundreds of merchants headed east to Nevada, settling at what was then called Fuller’s Crossing, a hospitable location for receiving merchandise from San Francisco. Arrival of the Central Pacific Railroad in 1868 made the community—now renamed Reno—an economic hub, and the Jewish community was there to stay.

The Real Sound of Rural Nevada
Summer 2021

Sweet Saviors of Virginia City
Summer 2021

Doing Business in Pioche Often Resulted in Deadly Encounters
Spring 2021

Yesterday: The Making of ‘The Misfits’
Spring 2021

Saving Bowers Mansion
Spring 2021

Ferris’ Fantastic Wheel
Winter 2021

An Ode to the Desert Jackass
Winter 2021

Historically First
Summer 2020

Helen Stewart: First Lady of Las Vegas
May – June 2020

The Ballad of Diamondfield Jack
May – June 2020

Nevada Outlaws Part 3
March – April 2020

Emma Nevada
March – April 2020

A Century of Suffrage
January – February 2020
The rancor felt about the above-noted laws being created without any say from female constituents was growing, and the cry of “taxation without representation” was reborn. While that sentiment was enough to ignite the American Revolution, it sparked little fire with the male citizens of the young nation. It took until 1920 before half of the citizens of the U.S. were granted the right to vote. But the fight began long before.

Goldfield’s Historic Battle
November – December 2019

The Ong
November – December 2019
Though cowardly as the beast may have been at times, the Ong didn’t just drag people away for fun.
It consumed them.

St. Thomas
September – October 2019

100 Years of Candy Dance
September – October 2019
In 1919, Lillian Virgin Finnegan and her aunt Jane Raycraft Campbell encouraged the 200 or so townspeople to hold a dance in what is now the Genoa Town Hall to raise funds for streetlights. Young ladies passed trays of free homemade candy, and after the dance, a midnight supper was served at the Raycraft Hotel.
Today, on the last full weekend of September, Genoans make and sell candy for the two-day Candy Dance Arts and Crafts Faire, which draws between 30,000 and 50,000 visitors to the town, population around 900.

Historic Fourth Ward School Museum
July – August 2019
Lara Mather is ready to make her point. As executive director of the Historic Fourth Ward School Museum in Virginia City, her excitement about sharing what is really inside the 143-year-old building that sits at the south end of town is palpable.

Nevada’s Outlaws
May – June 2019

Nevada’s Only National Memorial
May – June 2019
“Flame, just like there was a fire,” Henderson resident Lavern Hanks recalls. Her husband who worked for KLAS-TV tried to investigate. But men with rifles blocked the road to Kyle Canyon. So, he turned around and went home.

Fantastical Fallacies of the Notorious ‘Mangler’
March – April 2019

Langston Hughes Sought Solitude in Reno
January – February 2019

The Man Howard Hughes Left Behind
November – December 2018

Hard Pressed to Survive
July – August 2018

Elvis: The Vegas Years
February 1995

Railroad Collections
May – June 2018

The Founding of Reno
May – June 2018

Snowshoe Thompson
March – April 2018

Sam Davis
March – April 2018

Shaping History at Donovan Mill
January-February 2018

The Rise and Fall of Reno’s Chinatown
January-February 2018

Nevada’s Outlaws
July – August 2017

Manhattan Photographs
May – June 2017

Five Fools On A Flume
January – February 2017

A Mysterious Murder On The Comstock
January – February 2017

The Petticoat Prospectors
November – December 2016

History Men
September – October 2016

The Territorial Enterprise
May – June 2016

Law, Order, and a Game of Chance
March – April 2016

Dashing Through History
January – February 2016

Harolds Club
November – December 2015

The Genes of our Jeans
September – October 2015

Boulder/Hoover Dam
July – August 2015

The Spark that Ignited a Valley of Fire
July – August 2015

The Glenbrook
May – June 2015

St. Augustine’s Cultural Center
March – April 2015

Silver State, Gold Records
January – February 2015

Experience ‘The 36th Star’
September – October 2014

Bowers Mansion: The Chronicle of a Curious Nevada Landmark
July – August 2014

Railroad Town
May – June 2014

Battle Born Birthday Cakes
March – April 2014

The Metropolis That Wasn’t
January – February 2014

Black History In Nevada
January – February 2014

Sinatra Jr. Kidnapped
November – December 2013

Commemorative Stamps
November – December 2013

Mobile Museum
July – August 2013

Tonopah: Then & Now
May – June 2013

Pioneer Saloon
March – April 2013

The Quaints of DeQuille
January – February 2013