A Short History of Carson City

A Short History of Carson City is an engaging, comprehensive account of the city's colorful, often turbulent past. Long a winter home to the region's Washoe Indians, the area was first settled by Euro-Americans as a mid-nineteenth-century Mormon trading post and transit point to the nearby Comstock mining district. It later became the territorial and then state capital. With an economy first based on ranching and provisioning travelers heading to California and miners on the Comstock, Carso...