Nevada State Library and Archives

• Political History of Nevada, 2006 - Issued by the Secretary of State this book contains everything you wanted to know about how Nevada went from being a part of Utah Territory to a state; Nevada's changing boundaries; lists of elected officials and legislators, 1861-2006; and more.  PDF file.
• First Records of Carson Valley, 1851 - The first record of public government in the area that would become known as the State of Nevada. 
• Records in the State Archives
• Reno-Sparks Indian Colony Archives - Information about the archives and government of the  Reno-Sparks Indian Colony.
• Nevada State Archives Special Features
• Nevada Governors - brief biographies, descriptions of records in the Nevada State Archives
• Nevada Bibliography of Bibliographies - A list of bibliographies on Nevada history topics.  Annotated with Nevada State Library catalog numbers.
• Nevada Legislators - Information booklet about Nevada Legislators from 1861-2011, compiled by the Research Library of the Nevada Legislative Counsel Bureau
• National Archives microfilm of Federal records about Nevada - Microfilmed historic records of the U.S. Government related to Nevada.  Includes records of Nevada and Utah Territorial government, the Office of Indian Affairs, Indian census rolls, Sarah Winnemucca, U.S. Population Censuses for Nevada, Nevada based military correspondence, and Nevada Civil War-era service files.  Dates range from 1850-1940; bulk dates are 1860-1880.  Copies of these microfilms are in the Nevada State Library.
• Nevada Test Site Oral History Project - A University of Nevada, Las Vegas project, this is a comprehensive program dedicated to documenting, preserving and disseminating the remembered past of persons affiliated with and affected by the Nevada Test Site during the the era of nuclear testing.
• Mr. Lincoln’s Virtual Papers (Library of Congress)
• Why Did Nevada Become a State?
• Who was the First Governor of the State of Nevada?
• The Mysterious Origin of Nevada's Territorial Seal
• Blowing Smoke:  Another State Seal Myth
• Dying To Know The Truth: Governor John Sparks
• Carson City: The Nation's Smallest Capital?
• Second Oldest Capitol Building West of the Mississippi?
• Battle Born and Legal
• Political Manuscript Collections (UNR)
• Carson County, Utah Territory 
• Nevada Territory
• An Outline of Capital Punishment
• Ten Famous Cases of the Nevada Supreme Court 
• Howard Hickson's Histories
• The Nevada Observer Reading Room - Scanned, historic documents related to Nevada history, including state and county histories, travel narratives, literature, and the U.S. Senate Kefauver Crime Committee reports.

Photo credit:  Governor Russell addressing a joint session of the Nevada Legislature in the Assembly Chambers in the State Capitol.  The photo is undated but was taken between 1951-1957.  Courtesy of the Nevada State Archives, NSC-0065.