Nevada has a wealth of archaeological and historic sites. The state of Nevada’s SHPO has several programs and resources to educate the public on Nevada’s cultural resources. Many of the emigrant wagon trails crossed through Nevada leaving evidence still being discovered today.
The Proposed Action includes acquisition of approximately 16.9 acres of resort property in Indian Springs, Nevada. The activities associated with the acquisition would include the demolition of all existing privately owned buildings and structures, underground fuel tank abatement, land restoration, Read More …
Urban expansion in southern Nevada is rapidly encroaching upon land that was only recently considered isolated desert. Within this once isolated desert, now caught in the web of urban development, is the route of the Old Spanish Trail, which extends Read More …
Environmental impacts expected to result from renewed withdrawal of the Groom Mountain Range are assessed. The no-action alternative allowing return of the area to public land status and the alternative of renewing a smaller withdrawal area are considered. Impacts of Read More …
The Mormon Wagon Road was an outgrowth of the Old Spanish Trail, which itself utilized an existingnetwork of Native American trails. The Escalante-Dominguez expedition of 1776 was the first attempt by Euro-Americans to journey over Native American trails in southern Read More …
Marsh and lacustrine food resources are known to have been important to Native Americans of the Great Basin from the archaeological record, oral histories, ethnographic literature, and written accounts of early European explorers. However, few researchers have examined how natural Read More …
The exploration of Nevada can be divided into three overlapping but distinct phases. The first phase, “Fur Trappers and Caravanners” (1826-1833), is characterized by small scale forays into Nevada by fur trappers who explored the area for its natural resources, Read More …
In the spring of 1978, the Bureau of Land Management contracted with the University of Nevada, Reno (ContractNo.NV950-CT8-0011) to conduct I preliminary historical and archaeological studies on two historic sites, designated as Rock Creek Stage Station (Cr-Nv-03-1119) and Rock Creek Read More …
In 1967, rancher and University of Nevada Regent Molly Flagg Knudtsen asked Robert F. Heizer to introduce her to some students who had been involved in political activism on the University of California, Berkeley campus. Heizer complied, arranging a meeting Read More …
Within the southern boundaries of the Lake Mead National Recreation Area lies a relatively pristine archaeological landscape. Within a six square mile research area, 145 sites were documented, with the earliest characteristic of the San Dieguito I (4,500 B.P.) cultural Read More …
Today a historic landscape in Great Basin National Park, Johnson Lake Mine’s story actually begins in the early part of the 1900s, when the mineral tungsten was first discovered in the southern Snake Range. At Johnson Lake Mine tungsten was Read More …