Bertha Raffetto, born in Iowa in 1885, was a composer, poet, women’s club leader and a Republican political party activist in Reno, according to the Nevada Women’s History Project. She ...

In our previous history article we explained how it happened that three Nevada County pioneers were among the final people to talk to Abraham Lincoln before the president and first lady left the ...

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