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History Links

• Carl Albert Purpus Pioneer plant collector and writer in Western America around the late 1900s. Site describes findings, writings and travels, many of which were in Nevada.
  
• Atmospheric Atomic Tests Visual link between atmospheric tests, maps depicting the path of radioactive cloud, the fallout they deposited and the radioactivity thyroids were exposed to.
  
• Ghost Towns of Nevada Contains reports on access to ghost towns with descriptions, GPS coordinates, and photos
  
• Nevada Ghost Towns Boasts over 600 sites with photos.
  
• Central Nevada Emmigrant Trail Association 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.
  
• Trails West, Inc. Trails West is a nonprofit group of volunteers who identify and mark the mid-1800's emigrant trail into California.
  
• Anno Atomi: Growing Up with the Atom 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.
  
• The Atomic Duty of Bill Bires 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.
  
• Nevada Historical Documents Statehood legislation and the state constitution.
  
• Vanishing Nevada Fine art photography by Glen Sheehan from the ghost towns and mining camps of Nevada.
  
• The Nevada Civil War Volunteers A non-profit, educational, Civil War reenactment organization based in Reno, Nevada.
  
• Nevada's Governor's Mansion For Kids Take a tour the mansion and learn about government and Nevada state history. This site is geared for children.
  
• Map Index for Nevada's Historical Markers Historical markers throughout the state.
  
• Buckaroos in Paradise 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.
  
• Nevada Historical Societies A listing of addresses, with web site links, of many of the state's county historical societies.
  
• Guy & Zacks Ghosttown Adventures Personal accounts of visits to ghost towns in California, Nevada, Oregon, with photos, news and bulletin board.
  
• Nevada Heritage Dedicated to collecting, compiling and presenting Nevada historical information and materials on the Internet. Contributors are offered free web pages.
  
• White Pine Historical and Archaeological Society 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.