From settlement to casinos, publication relays Vegas' past - 2004-03-09
Conveniently, for its centennial celebration in 2005 is a new book "Las Vegas: The Fabulous First Century" by one-time Redlands local Judy Dixon Gabaldon.
It's a story of the Paiutes, the Mormons, the water rights, the federal government building Boulder Dam, the headline entertainers, the strong racial discrimination through the years and, of course, the casinos, the gambling, the mob persuasion and a city that today hires a huge service trade for the 36 million visitors who arrive every year.
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