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Wikipedia Designed to capture contributors and participants in America's expansion westward from the east coast. Including politicians, newsmen, explorers, founding fathers, frontiersmen, mountainmen, railroadmen, lawmen, outlaws, gunfighters, etc. Notable people of the American Old West Artists Frederic Remington - Artist who specialized in the American Old West Explorers Saca...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Reno, Nevada. Overview Wikipedia Reno is a city in the northwest section of the U.S. state of Nevada, approximately 22 miles from Lake Tahoe. Known as "The Biggest Little City in the World", Reno is known for its casino industry. Reno is the county seat of Washoe County. The city sits in a high desert river valley at the foot o...
This cemetery is located on 1600 Buckeye Road, Minden, Douglas County, Nevada. Official Website Find a Grave
North American Tribes Southwest Includes the Following States Arizona | Nevada | New Mexico Includes the Following Native American Tribes Apache Awatobi Chemehuevi Coahuiltec Cocopa Comanche Havasupai Hopi Jemez Keresan Family Kiowa Kiowa Apache Lipan Manso Maricopa Mohave Navajo Tribe (Diné) Paiute Papago ( Tohono O'odham )
The town of Genoa in Douglas County was the first permanent settlement in Nevada. Genoa was settled in 1851 by Mormon traders selling goods to settlers on their way to California. Named for Stephen A. Douglas, famous for his 1860 Presidential campaign and debates with Abraham Lincoln, Douglas County was one of the first nine counties formed in 1861 by the Nevada territorial legislature. The co...
This project is for those who were born,lived or died in Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada.= Wikipedia = List of people from Las Vegas
Imlay is an unincorporated town in Pershing County, Nevada, United States. It has an elementary school, a general store, a post office, and a trading post. As of the 2010 census the population was 171. It is a nearly abandoned railroad town, named for a nearby mine or for the civil engineer who surveyed the town circa 1907. Its most notable feature is a series of strange buildings called Thund...
Humboldt City, Nevada is a former mining settlement whose ruins lie in Pershing County approximately 10 miles SW of Mill City and 2 miles SE of Interstate 80. There was a Post Office in operation from April 1862 until November 1869. Wikipedia
Wikipedia This project for those who were born, lived or died in Humboldt County, Nevada. Humboldt County is the oldest county in Nevada, created by the Utah Territorial Legislature in 1856. It was also one of Nevada's original nine counties created in 1861. The county is named after the Humboldt River, which was named by John C. Frémont, after Alexander von Humboldt , a German naturalist, t...
This project is for those who were born, lived or died in Washoe County, Nevada. Washoe County was created on November 25, 1861, as one of the original nine counties of the Nevada Territory. It is named after the Washoe people who originally inhabited the area. It was consolidated with Roop County in 1864. Washoe City was the first county seat in 1861 and was replaced by Reno in 1871. In 1911...
Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery is located in Boulder City, Nevada. Find a Grave
This project is for those who were born, lived or died in Goldfield, Esmeralda County, Nevada. The community was named for deposits of gold near the original town site. Gold was discovered at Goldfield in 1902, its year of inception. By 1904, the Goldfield district produced about 800 tons of ore, valued at $2,300,000, 30% of the state's production that year. This remarkable production caused ...
This project is for those there were born, lived or died in Lander County, Nevada.= Wikipedia =
Carson City is an independent city and the capital of the U.S. state of Nevada. The majority of the city's population lives in Eagle Valley, on the eastern edge of the Carson Range, a branch of the Sierra Nevada, about 30 miles south of Reno. The city is named after the mountain man Kit Carson. The town began as a stopover for California-bound immigrants, but developed into a city with the Coms...
What is now Clark County was acquired by the United States during the Mexican–American War, becoming part of the northwestern corner of New Mexico Territory. In 1847, Jefferson Hunt and other Mormon Battalion members returning to Salt Lake City from Los Angeles pioneered a wagon route through the County that became the Mormon Road. In 1849, this road became known as the "Southern Route", the wi...
This project is for those that were born, lived or died. in Nye County, Nevada.
This subportal is part of the USA Portal . =Nevada (Spanish for "snowy") is a state in the Western, Mountain West, and Southwestern regions of the United States of America. Nevada is the 7th most extensive, the 34th most populous, and the 9th least densely populated of the 50 United States. Nearly three-quarters of Nevada's people live in Clark County, which contains the Las Vegas–Paradise metr...
This project is for those who were born, lived or died in Fallon, Churchill, Nevada Fallon is a city in Churchill County in the U.S. state of Nevada. It is the county seat of Churchill County and is located in the Lahontan Valley. The community was first populated during the California Gold Rush, because multiple would-be Forty-niners stopped after crossing the Carson River. The town and po...
Wikipedia University of Nevada-Las Vegas (UNLV) is an American public research university located in the Las Vegas suburb of Paradise, Nevada. The 332-acre campus is located approximately 1.6-mile east of the Las Vegas Strip. The university includes the Shadow Lane Campus, located just east of the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada, which houses the School of Dental Medicine— the on...
Eureka County was established in 1873 and formed from Lander County after silver was discovered more than 100 miles east of Austin. The new mining camp's residents complained Austin was too far to go for county business and a new county was created. It was named for the ancient Greek term, Eureka, meaning, "I have found it." This term was used earlier in California and other locations. Eureka h...
This project is for those who were born, lived or died in Esmerald County, Nevada. Esmeralda County is a county in the southwestern portion of the U.S. state of Nevada. It is one of the least populous county in Nevada. Esmeralda County does not have any incorporated communities. Its county seat is the town of Goldfield. Its 2000 census population density of 0.2706 inhabitants per square mile ...
This area was long inhabited by Native American tribes of the Plateau, particularly the Western Shoshone, Northern Paiute, and Bannock peoples. Their traditional ways were disrupted after European-American settlement, as the two cultures competed for resources and had differing conceptions of land use and property. Elko County was established in 1869 from Lander County; the name was taken from...
The cemetery is located on 141 Memorial Drive, Reno, Washoe County, Nevada. Official Website Find a Grave Billion Graves
This cemetery is located on 6200 South Eastern Avenue, Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada. It's also known as Paradise Memorial Gardens . Official Website
This project is for those buried in Click Cemetery, Nevada, Vernon County, Missouri. Find a Grave Billion Graves