How the Dazzling Las Vegas Strip Rose Up From the Desert
Source: Smithsonian
The city’s classic sign, 25 feet tall, was designed by commercial artist Betty Willis in 1959. Alamy In 1829, a group of explorers led by Spanish merchant Antonio Armijo moved west toward Alta California through the arid Mojave Desert—the ancestral lands of the Southern Paiute people. A young scout named Rafael Rivera discovered a particularly verdant area full of grassland irrigated by a natural spring; this…
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