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Lookin’ to get hitched?  You’ll need a marriage license.  Check out information below for all the county clerks’ offices in Nevada. And don’t forget to learn more about how to […]

Getting married in Las Vegas—if Hollywood is to be believed—is for the young, the foolish, the headstrong, or the inebriated. In the really far-out tales, those qualities are all rolled up in one impatient, lovestruck couple who have just met and take their new-found passion all the way to the altar.

After struggling to maintain momentum through the Great Depression, Nevadans are aided by the sinful schemes that supported the infamy of the Silver State. BY RON SOODALTER When the Great […]

Molly Flagg Knudtsen gave up the good life for the great life—raising cows on her ranch near Austin. This story first appeared in the September/October issue of Nevada Magazine. By […]

BY MIKE WEATHERFORD | January/February 1995 “He was kind of weird looking for those people,” recalls Freddie Bell, a lounge singer performing at the Sands at the time. “He had the […]

  80 years of mystery and magic surround Lake Tahoe’s famed estate. BY MEGG MUELLER If the Internet had been around in the 1930s, the legend of George Whittell Jr. […]

We honor the ladies, past and present, who have helped shape modern Nevada. BY NEVADA MAGAZINE This year—2014—has garnered a lot of attention in the Silver State, and for good […]

History buffs and Wild West enthusiasts will find a wealth of intriguing relics from the past in Dayton, the site of Nevada’s first gold discovery. Visitors to Old Dayton will be charmed by its nostalgic boardwalk sidewalks, fascinating shops, mom-and-pop dining establishments, and beautifully unique homes located in perfectly restored buildings that tell the story of Dayton’s storied past.

The courthouse has been in continuous use since it was built in 1907.  Historic photographs, artifacts, original furniture and the original Tiffany style lamps are available to view during normal business hours.

While the Goldfield Hotel was once famous as the most lavish hotel in Nevada’s biggest, and wealthiest boomtown of its era, the historic building is renowned for being another thing altogether: one of the “Scariest Places on Earth”—and the entire country—drawing paranormal pros from all over, including the regularly visiting Zak Bagans’ “Ghost Adventures” crew.