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Nevada History: Pioneer Christmas
About 170 years ago, the Brier family sat, parched and exhausted, on the edge of Death Valley on Christmas night, 1849. They were not alone, for there were others in the camp, and they listened to the first Christmas sermon preached in the Nevada territory. Historians are not completely certain of the sermon topic, other […]