Nevada

Nevada History Lecture
September 23, 2023 from 1-2:30pm

Frontier Baseball in Nevada
Bob Nylen, Curator Emeritus

Nevada newspapers reported on in the late 1860s how a sports craze was spreading across the country.  This was the new game of baseball, and it had finally reached Nevada.

During the Civil War, the game was played […]

Glenbrook: From Timber to Tourism

May 13, 2023 from 1-2:30pm

Susan Magee Clemons, guest speaker

Today Glenbrook is a peaceful community nestled on the east shore of Lake Tahoe.  Before the turn of the last century, however, Glenbrook was just the opposite: a bustling, industrial center where the trees surrounding Lake Tahoe were milled and sent off […]

Here is the latest   for March through June 2023. Make sure to check back for the latest happenings at the Society. […]

Nevada History Lecture
Nevada’s Pioneer Fire Service And The Fire That Destroyed It

June 3, 2023 from 1-2:30pm

Steve Frady, Historian and Journalist

Summary: A look at the development and death of the Virginia Fire Department, Nevada’s first organized fire department that by 1875 boasted more than 500 volunteers […]

In celebration of Older American Month, the Nevada Historic Society will offer free admission to seniors every Wednesday during the month of […]

Writers’ Wednesday
April 12 , 2023
5:00 – 5:30 pm – Book signing and wine/cheese Reception
5:30 – 6:30 pm – Lecture

This month’s book is called “Goldfield Century: Nevada Boomtown” with author Stephen H. Provost who will discuss his book. Dragon Crown Books/Century Cities Publishing.

Summary of Talk
You may not have heard of it, but for a brief […]

Writers’ Wednesday
Peter Mires
Wicked Virginia City

March 8, 2023
5:00 – 5:30 pm – Book signing and wine/cheese Reception
5:30 – 6:30 pm – Lecture

This month’s book is called “Wicked Virginia City” with author Peter Mires who explores the seamy side of this quintessential mining boomtown in his latest book. He will be signing copies of his book […]

Writers’ Wednesday
November 8, 2023
5:00 – 5:30 pm – Book signing and wine/cheese Reception
5:30 – 6:30 pm – Lecture
Outback Nevada Book
This month’s book is called “Outback Nevada: Real Stories from the Silver State,” published by the University of Nevada Press.”  You will meet with author John Glionna, and photographer Randi Lynn Beach who will talk […]

Nevada History Lecture

October 25, 2023
5:00 – 5:30 pm – Wine/cheese Reception
5:30 – 6:30 pm – Nevada History Lecture

Guest Speaker
Diana L. Ahmad, Ph.D.
Curators’ Distinguished Teaching Professor Emerita
Missouri University of Science and Technology

The Depot of Carcasses:  Animals, Overlanders, and the Forty Mile Desert

Between the 1840s and 1860s, approximately 300,000 people crossed the Great Plains to the […]

Writers’ Wednesday
October 11, 2023
5:00 – 5:30 pm – Book signing and wine/cheese Reception
5:30 – 6:30 pm – Lecture

This month’s book is called “Frontier Fake News: Nevada’s Sagebrush Humorists and Hoaxsters” published by the University of Nevada Press with historian and author, Richard Moreno who will discuss his book.

Summary of Talk

Frontier […]