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The Ancestral Puebloans, also known as the Anasazi and by the earlier term the Basketmaker-Pueblo culture, were an ancient Native American culture that spanned the present-day Four Corners region of the United States, comprising southeastern Utah, northeastern Arizona, northwestern New Mexico, and southwestern Colorado.
The Virgin Anasazi were the westernmost Ancestral Puebloan group in the American Southwest. They occupied the area in and around the Virgin River and Muddy Rivers, the western Colorado Plateau, the Moapa Valley and were bordered to the south by the Colorado River. [1] They occupied areas in present-day Nevada, Arizona, and Utah.
Native American history [ edit ] The site, also known as Nevada's "Lost City" , [ 2 ] was founded by Basketmaker people about 300 A.D., and was later occupied by other groups and the Ancestral Pueblo until 1150 A.D. [ 3 ] The site also shows signs of human occupation as early as 8000 BC.
Map of Ancient Pueblo People in the American Southwest and Northern Mexico.. The Basketmaker culture of the pre-Ancestral Puebloans began about 1500 BC and continued until about AD 750 with the beginning of the Pueblo I Era.
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On May 15, 1905, Las Vegas officially was founded as a city when 110 acres (45 ha), in what later became downtown, were auctioned to ready buyers. Las Vegas was the driving force in the creation of Clark County, Nevada in 1909, and the city was incorporated in 1911 as a part of the county.
It was billed as "Las Vegas's first resort hotel" and marked an important landmark in the city's history and development. [17] The Showboat was built by William J. Moore of the Last Frontier and J. Kell Houssels of the Las Vegas Club [18] for $2 million. [19] The first resort within Las Vegas city limits, it had 100 rooms on two floors. [20]