Regional, North America, United States, Nevada, Society and Culture, History
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- A listing of addresses, with web site links, of many of the state's county historical societies.
- Boasts over 600 sites with photos.
- Dedicated to collecting, compiling and presenting Nevada historical information and materials on the Internet. Contributors are offered free web pages.
- Trails West is a nonprofit group of volunteers who identify and mark the mid-1800's emigrant trail into California.
- Fine art photography by Glen Sheehan from the ghost towns and mining camps of Nevada.
- Online documentation of a Nevada cattle-ranching community, with a focus on the family-run Ninety-Six Ranch, by the Paradise Valley Folklife Project (1978-1982). Articles, plus audio and video files.
- A non-profit, educational, Civil War reenactment organization based in Reno, Nevada.
- Historical markers throughout the state.
- Pioneer plant collector and writer in Western America around the late 1900s. Site describes findings, writings and travels, many of which were in Nevada.
- This is a short history of Pvt. Bill Bires' military duty with the 231st Engineer Combat Battalion from Ft. Lewis, Washington. Co. He was assigned temporary duty at the Atomic Test Series in the Nevada desert in the fall of 1951.
- A non-profit organization dedicated to educating the local community and the general public about the history of the Emigrant (or California) Trail through Nevada.
- White Pine County, Nevada history. Historical photographs and history of the pony express, populated and ghost town information, cemeteries and burials, Indian Rock Art, interactive maps.
- Contains reports on access to ghost towns with descriptions, GPS coordinates, and photos.
- Anno Atomi documents the atmospheric atomic bomb tests conducted at the Nevada Test Site during 1957. Compiled using government press releases, and images, with comments by soldiers and citizens these detonations are known as Operation Plumbbob.
- Personal accounts of visits to ghost towns in California, Nevada, Oregon, with photos, news and bulletin board.
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