The area at the time précolombienne

The first inhabitants of Nevada are the Amerindian S: in the first times, they were wandering and drove out hares, the antelopes, the moufflons, the deer and the squirrels. They supplemented their food by the contributions of fishing. They gathered also bays and collected roots. Then these people sédentarisés and left many vestiges of their culture and in particular of the Pétroglyphes (Red Rock Canyon, Vallée of Fire). The vestiges of civilization Anasazi E are visible in Pueblo Grande of Nevada, close to Overton, in the south of the Nevada: this site, called Lost City , was already occupied towards 8000 before J. - C.; Anasazis and other tribes resided at it between Ier century before J. - C. and XIIe century.

The Amerindians lived in adaptation with the natural constraints. In the Large Basin arid, the tribes practiced hunting and cultivated irrigated pieces. They braided the Armoise of America and used the Saule desert to make plaits and loincloths. The Shoshone S (in the middle of the state), the Paiutes of north (in the North-West) and the south (south-eastern) are the most famous tribes. The Washoe S occupy part of the west of the state as well as California.

Exploration and colonization

Integration in the United States

The Congrès of the United States establishes the territory of Utah the August 14th 1850 which gathered then the actual positions of the Utah, of the Idaho and Nevada. In 1859, the discovery of the money seam of Comstock ( Comstock Lode ) close to Virginia City caused the surge of adventurers.

In 1860, the Paiute Amerindians, under the command of Numaga, start to tackle the white campings and the connections of the Pony Express. The intervention of the army crushes the movement of rebellion.

The March 2nd 1861, Nevada was separated from the territory of Utah and took its current name, a short cut of Sierra Nevada. The October 31st 1864, Nevada became the 36e State of the United States. It absorbed in 1866 the county of Pah-Ute of the Territoire of Arizona, in the west of the river Colorado. Other money and gold seams were discovered at the beginning of the 20th century (Tonopah, Goldfield and Rhyolite). Other ores also made the richness of the area such as copper, the Molybdène and the Lithium.

Economic development at the XXe century

With the exhaustion of certain seams and the Great depression of the Years 1930, the industry of the play developed as from the years 1930. Founded in 1905, Las Vegas quickly became the capital of the play.

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