NEVADA. LEAST POPULOUS OF THE'
5TATES, WAS FIRST E'lCPLORED BY FRAN·
CI~AN FlliAQS WHO CllOSSED THE At!EA
ON THEIR WAY TO CALIFORNIA IN 177~
A TQADING POST SET UP BY MOQMONS
HEAt! CARSON RIVER IN 1649 LED 'TO lltf
FIQST SETTLEMENT. WITH THE DISCOVERY
OF THE COMSTOCK LODE IN 1859, THE P011
ULATION 61lE.W RAPIDLY. ORGANIZED ASA
TE12121TORY MAQ.2.18GI. NEVADA WAS AD·
MITTED TO THE UNION OCTO~Eil31, 1864.
I
r iRSI bAY OF ISSUE
~ev . Gerard M. Landrey, • J .,
Fairfield Preparatory School,
Fairfield, Conn.
·r. and Mrs. J. A. King,
7 - 31st Road, So.,
'~?ton, va.
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