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Was Las Vegas Ever Truly a Wild West Town?

Was Las Vegas Ever Truly a Wild West Town?

Update: 2025-09-15
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Las Vegas loves to promote its cowboy bonafides — from Vegas Vic to our Helldorado Days and rodeo events — but how much of that is advertising, and how much of that is actual history? Was Las Vegas ever really part of the Wild West? Co-host Sarah Lohman sits down with UNLV history professor Michael Green, who explains just how much of a frontier town Vegas really was.


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Was Las Vegas Ever Truly a Wild West Town?

Was Las Vegas Ever Truly a Wild West Town?

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