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People from Winnemucca, Nevada (13 P) Pages in category "People from Humboldt County, Nevada" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
Nevada was the first state to sanction the use of the gas chamber. The first execution by use of lethal gas took place in February 1924 and has been used as the means of carrying out the death sentence a total of thirty-one times. The last execution was held October 22, 1979. [4]
Humboldt County is the oldest county in Nevada, created by the Utah Territorial Legislature in 1856. It was also one of Nevada's original nine counties created in 1861. The county is named after the Humboldt River , which was named by John C. Frémont after Alexander von Humboldt , a German naturalist, traveler and statesman. [ 7 ]
Buildings and structures in Humboldt County, Nevada (2 C, 19 P) E. Education in Humboldt County, Nevada (5 P) G. Geography of Humboldt County, Nevada (4 C, 9 P) H.
A cloud of mystery hangs over the deaths of a Nevada couple who were found dead in their hotel room in the Mexican resort town of Cabo San Lucas.. Nick and Lindsay Jordan, from the Reno suburb of ...
By age 20, Wingfield had become a cattle drover, and drove herds from Oregon and California eastward to Winnemucca in Humboldt County (in the state's northwestern corner). ). Winnemucca was the Humboldt county seat, as well as (approximately since the Civil War) a stop on the Southern Pacific Railroad (the transcontinental railroad which acquired the Central Pacif
Upon completing his term in 1863, Dunne moved to Humboldt County, Nevada Territory. [4] A year after his arrival, Dunne was a member of the Nevada constitutional convention. Following statehood he was elected a district court judge for Nevada's Sixth Judicial District in 1865 and 1866.
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