My favorite Old West artifact at the Clark County Museum is a southern Paiute bow and arrow collected in the Vegas Valley about 1900. It is a sophisticated piece of work, sinew backed wood, and it shows the technology and sophistication of the local Indians and their adaptation to the desert environment.
What history has taught me is we should understand the motivations of people in the past, who worked hard to create what we have today. This doesn’t mean we can’t make changes, but if we
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