This fun little town in northwest Nevada was arguably once the richest in the world, but now it’s the historic ground zero of one of the best week-long loops a traveler can do in the U.S.—a trip that has something for nearly every traveler.
Laura D. Fair was seeing red on the evening of Nov. 3, 1870, when, dressed in a veil and cloak, she shot and killed the man she loved on a San Francisco ferry. At least that’s what her lawyers argued in court, the first plea of temporary insanity due to menstruation. She was let off, a verdict that showed,, that the "very principles on which society and order are established seem to have crumbled away.
But the real star of Reno in my opinion is over on the campus at University of Nevada, Reno. There, at the end of a leafy quadrangle, sits the Keck Museum at the school’s Mackay School of Mines. Inside is a literal treasure hoard in the form of a significant chunk of the legendary Mackay silver dining set.
Keen on something indoors, I headed to one of the most important historical sites in the region–the Stewart Indian School. At the end of the 19th century and into the 20th, the federal government opened numerous schools around the country where Native American children were enrolled–often against their will. There they were forcibly assimilated, forbidden to speak their language, hair cut, and often lived in abusive and cruel environments.
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