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修建完成的堡垒及墙壁，
古老拉斯维加斯堡垒州立历史公园(Old
Las Vegas Mormon Fort State Historic Park)，2000年1月
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2000年，重新发现内华达
地方性遗产
假如您以为内华达州只是拉斯维加斯的所在地而已，那么您一定忽略了它长远且有趣的历史。原本，许多美国原住民部落占据了现在的内华达州，古老的原住民文化至少可回溯到10,000年前，即使到了现在，它仍是12多个部落的家乡。
1855年，一群摩门教传教士是第一批定居在拉斯维加斯河谷内的非原住民居民。他们建造的泥砖堡垒，现已成为博物馆。而座落在古老西班牙小径上的河谷，则是吸引他们定居的原因。事实上，拉斯维加斯在西班牙文的意思就是草地。
除了摩门教派外，向西部前进的拓荒者有时也会定居在这个地区，而快马邮递的骑士会行经现今的内华达州，抄近路递送邮件。1859年时，该州发现数量庞大的黄金及银矿后，越来越多希望一夜致富的人抵达内华达州。1900年代早期，拉斯维加斯成为一个铁路市镇，然后在1930年代，当赌博合法化后，该市镇进一步的成长。
对许多人来说，内华达州是一个充满吸引力的居住地。自1990年至2000年间，它的成长率是高达66%，是美国境内成长最快的州。
If you think of Nevada only as the state where the city of Las Vegas is located, you'd be ignoring its long and interesting history. Originally, many Native American tribes occupied the area that is now Nevada. Ancient Native American culture goes back at least 10,000 years, and still today, the state is home to more than a dozen tribes.
In 1855, a group of Mormon missionaries were the first non-natives to settle in the Las Vegas Valley. They built an adobe fort, which is now a museum. The area appealed to them because of the valley located along the Old Spanish Trail. In fact, Las Vegas means "the meadows" in Spanish.
In addition to the Mormons, pioneers moving westward sometimes settled in the area, and the Pony Express riders cut through hundreds of miles of what is now Nevada to deliver mail. After the discovery of large gold and silver deposits in 1859, more people arrived in the hopes of striking it rich. In the early 1900s, Las Vegas became a railroad town and then in the 1930s the town grew further when gambling was legalized.
Nevada is an attractive place to live for a lot of people. It grew by a whopping 66 percent from 1990 to 2000 -- the fastest of any state.
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