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Carson City, Nevada

by | Jun 1, 2006 | Travel & Preservation

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To encourage our readers to visit this year’s winners of our Top 10 True Western Towns award announced in Jan/Feb, each issue will showcase the local flavor at one of these towns. Carson City, Nevada, became a thriving commercial center, thanks to the Comstock Lode—the largest silver find in history—that brought thousands of miners to what would become the state capital in 1864. When the Comstock mines began to decline in the 1880s, development shifted to the freight and timber industri


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