Front Page Nevada

Here are 53 significant events in the history of Nevada as told by the reporters and editors who were there. These are the first-day stories, the roughest draft of history, the sometimes breathless accounts of news as it happened.

They were compiled for the state’s sesquicentennial — the 150th anniversary of its admission into the Union in 1864 — by the Nevada Press Association  from the pages of its newspapers over the previous century and a half.