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Anyone who's seen Lake Tahoe has been stunned by its beauty. For the Washoe Indians it was a magical place and when the first Euro-Americans saw it, they…

The towns of Virginia City and Silver City, just east of Carson City, were built on mining. But, now that mining is coming back there are some townsfolk…

Author Roy Morris argues in his new book that the three years Mark Twain spent in Nevada, as a failed miner and a newspaper reporter, helped make him the…