Virginia City is particularly notable because it was integrated. Black residents – numbering 44 in 1860 before Nevada became a state and about 100 in 1870, according to census records – lived ...

Regardless, the rapid population growth in Virginia City between 1860-1862 led to a need for accommodations to support the demand. It soon became one of the largest cities in the West, eclipsing ...

He and two of his men are sent to Virginia City, where Confederate sympathizers are prepared to donate $5 million dollars to the cause of Southern independence. The war is going badly for the ...