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July 6, 2008

Boomtown: Part Two

Boomtown:  Part Two

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Thu, May 15, 2008 (9:33 a.m.)

From 1910 through 1920, the newly founded township of Las Vegas mostly relied on three things to keep it going: The railroad, the roulette wheel, and the red-light district. More history of Las Vegas »

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