Las Vegas Birthday Highlights Two Milestones Since 1905
Las Vegas marks its 39th birthday on May 15 and the tenth Helldorado festival begins three days later, tracing the town from pioneer camps to a desert metropolis. The piece recounts early routes, Mormon settlement days, the 1905 land auction, and growth linked to the Boulder Dam era.
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Las Vegas
Desert
San Pedro
Los Angeles
J. T. McWilliams
Westside
Railroad Company
Ben O. Rhodes
Fremont Passed Here and the Pathfinder Legend
Fremont street derives from General John C. Fremont who named the area after a spring he found while surveying the Far West. The water source powered early Las Vegas growth and later rail lines, with Fremont becoming the main thoroughfare by 1940 as Las Vegas Army Air Field and Basic Magnesium projects emerged.
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Fremont Street
John C. Fremont
Tyler
Fremont
Los Angeles, San Pedro & Salt Lake Railway
Las Vegas Army Air Field
Basic Magnesium, Inc
Doc Sorenson To Handle Rodeo In Las Vegas
J C Doc Sorenson owner of the Flying U ranch at Camas Idaho will return for the tenth annual Las Vegas rodeo providing 180 head of stock. He supplies stock for Madison Square Garden Cheyenne Frontier Days and other major shows. Rodeo events run May 18 19 20 and May 21 in the city park arena with Mayor Cragin as Elks chair and the old-timers parade forming at 5 30 on the clock.
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J. C
Doc” Sorenson
Camas
Idaho
Las Vegas
Sorenson
Madison Square Gardens
City Park
E. W. Cragin
The
Elks Lodge
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Vegas
Oregon
Santa Fe
Carson
Bonneville
Salt Lake City
Utah
San Bernardino
California
Territory
New Mexico
Nevada State Historical Society
Church of the Latter Day Saints
Jane Wier
Reno
Church
North Fifth Street
Utah Pioneers of
Muddy Mission
O. D. Gass
Boulder Dam
Clark County
Helldorado Village
City Park Arena
Tanual
Clark County Chidren
Hellodrado Village
ELKS
Helldorado
Christensens
Union Pacific
James Cashide
Rade
John Zerby
Maxine Wright
Rabh S. Pardy
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