Nevada State Library and Archives

Presidents - Presidential Wives - Legislators - Military

• Myth #99 - Caliente:  Hot Stuff on the Web, But is it True?
• Myth #85 - Gold Hill Hotel:  Nevada's Oldest Hotel Not Built in 1859
• Myth #79 - Nineteenth-Century Presidential Visits to Lake Tahoe and Nevada
• Myth #74 - "First Lady" Patricia Nixon: Her Life Began in Nevada, But Where?
• Myth #64 - Getting the Facts Down Pat
• Myth #50 - Taking Things For Granted: Dayton and U.S. President Grant
• Myth #47 - Who Was the First Woman to Run for the U.S. Senate?
• Myth #29 - Wanted: The Real Reno

Performers and Actors

• Myth #103 - What's in a Dam Name?
• Myth #83 - Elliott Gould and Barbra Streisand:  A Capital Secret
• Myth #60 - Myths and "The Misfits"
• Myth #56 - No Disappearing Act for Harry Houdini at Piper's Opera House
• Myth #49 - Divorcing Myth From Truth: Mary Pickford's Divorce
• Myth #25 - The Great Caruso Never Sang on the Comstock
• Myth #21 - Marilyn Monroe: Mystery and Myth

Lawment and (people of) ill-repute

•  Myth #115 - Plausible De-Nye-Ability: Just How Large is Nye County?
•  Myth #34 - What Didn't Happen at Tonopah's Mizpah Hotel!
•  Myth #20 - Red Light Legend and Lore: Julia Bulette
•  Myth # 6 - T.R. and Wyatt
•  Myth # 5 - The Wild Bunch in Winnemucca

Literary Figures

•  Myth #95 - Staging a Robbery Without a Coach
•  Myth #69 - Mark My Words - No Twain In Church
•  Myth #54 - "Sell The Sizzle And Not The Steak": Mark Twain In Carson City
•  Myth #37 - Quoting Mark Twain
•  Myth # 2 - Mark Twain Flees Nevada

Inventors

•  Myth #59 - Shedding Light on Nevada's First Nobel Laureate
•  Myth #53 - The George Washington Gale Ferris House--Or Is It?
•  Myth #38 - Levi's 501 Jeans: A Riveting Story in Early Reno

Explorers

•  Myth #61 - Peaking at Lake Tahoe
•  Myth #51 - Going Out On A Limb - "Carson City's Oldest Tree"
•  Myth #10 - "Gentleman Jim" Corbett and Carson City's Corbett School
•  Myth # 9 - A Capital Name: Kit Carson and Carson City