State Library and Archives - A Division of the Nevada Department of Cultural Affairs

Carson City

•  Myth # 4 - Hannah Clapp and The Capitol Fence
•  Myth # 7 - Carson City: The Nation's Smallest Capital?
•  Myth #13 - George W. G. Ferris, Jr. and The Ferris Wheel
•  Myth #24 - Eagle Valley and Carson City
•  Myth #31 - Nevada's "Silver" Capitol "Dome"
•  Myth #44 - Carson City's Jack's Bar: "A Saloon Since 1859?"
•  Myth #53 - The George Washington Gale Ferris House--Or Is It?
•  Myth #51 - Going Out On A Limb - "Carson City's Oldest Tree"
•  Myth #57 - East is East, West is West and Where Was Carson City's Chinatown Anyway?
•  Myth #61 - Peaking at Lake Tahoe
•  Myth #69 - Mark My Words - No Twain In Church
•  Myth #67 - Carson City's E. D. Sweeney Building: A Case of Mistaken Identity
•  Myth #78 - Second Oldest Capitol Building West of the Mississippi?
•  Myth #91 - The Last of the 19th Century Ferris Wheels 

Clark County - Las Vegas

•  Myth # 1 - Workers Buried in Hoover Dam
•  Myth #36 - Las Vegas' First Post Office Wasn't Named Las Vegas
•  Myth #111 - Riding High:  Hank Monk and Horace Greeley

Douglas County - Minden - Gardnerville - Genoa

•  Myth #22 - Nevada's First Permanent Settlement
•  Myth #24 - Eagle Valley and Carson City

Lyon County - Fernley - Yerington

•  Myth #15 - Who's Lyon?
•  Myth #19 - What's in a Name? Yerington Wasn't Always Yerington
•  Myth #22 - Nevada's First Permanent Settlement
•  Myth #39 - Old School Days
•  Myth #40 - More Old School Days
•  Myth #43 - Fort Churchill The Birthplace of Cavalry: Saddled with a Myth?
•  Myth #89 - Never the Twain Shall Meet

Nye and Esmeralda Counties

•  Myth #11 - "The First Electric Elevator West of the Mississippi"
•  Myth #26 - "Would You Believe: The First Elevator West of the Mississippi?!"
•  Myth #32 - "Asscertaining" Tonopah's Origin
•  Myth #34 - What Didn't Happen at Tonopah's Mizpah Hotel!

Storey County - Virginia City - Gold Hill

•  Myth # 8 - The "Trestle" on the State Seal
•  Myth #30 - Seeing Justice in Virginia City
•  Myth #41 - Virginia City's Namesake: A Grave Issue
•  Myth #45 - Virginia City: The Biggest City West of the Rockies?
•  Myth #48 - Virginia City's Silver Streets
•  Myth #56 - No Disappearing Act for Harry Houdini at Piper's Opera House
•  Myth #70 - Asa W. Phelps: The War Hero That Wasn't
•  Myth #80 - Bringing a Myth to a Grinding Halt
•  Myth #87 - How Tall is Too Tall? A Capitol Tale
•  Myth #95 - Staging a Robbery Without a Coach
•  Myth #113 - A Tennis Great's Life Started in Carson City

 Washoe County - Reno - Sparks

•  Myth #33 - Reno History Mystery Solved
•  Myth #39 - Old School Days
•  Myth #40 - More Old School Days
•  Myth #42 - The First Hotel Built in the World After World War II?
•  Myth #46 - Reno's Methodist Church: Why the First or Oldest Something West of the Mississippi?
•  Myth #68 - Getting "Reno-Vated": The Ring of Truth
•  Myth #105 - The Mississippi of the West
•  Myth #109 - U.S. Grant Did Not Get into Hot Water in Nevada

 Other Places

• Myth #115 - Plausible De-Nye-Ability: Just How Large is Nye County?
• Myth #101 - In Search of an Enterprising Mark Twain
• Myth #99 - Caliente:  Hot Stuff on the Web, But is it True?