Virginia City is particularly notable because it was integrated. Black residents – numbering 44 in 1860 before Nevada became a state and about 100 in 1870, according to census records – lived ...

It soon became one of the largest cities in the West, eclipsing 15,000 by the mid-1860s and 25,000 by the 1870s ... other pieces while living in Virginia City. Nevada historians like to claim ...