This Sunday marks 150 years since the Great Fire that devastated Virginia City. In remembrance of this event while ...

America is readying to celebrate its 250th birthday and there’s no better time to get to know the history of the state of Nevada. Nevada officially became a part of the United States on Oct. 31, 1864 ...

The Territorial Enterprise building where Twain began his writing career burned down in a fire nearly a decade after the ...

Union Army reenactors march to their spot on the battlefield at Spring Mountain Ranch State Park on Sunday morning. The ...

Eventually, the mines were depleted, and most people left as quickly as they came. But not everyone moved on. Today, Virginia City is a National Historic District with more than 400 19th-century ...

Historical archaeology methods : much more than digging with small tools -- Opening saloon doors : archaeology unearths the real mother lode -- Facades of public drinking : saloon architecture -- ...