* German-style board games, or Eurogames, like The Settlers of Catan, Carson City or Puerto Rico

Carson City, officially the Consolidated Municipality of Carson City, is an independent city and the capital of the state of Nevada.

Carson City is about south of Reno and originated as a stopover for California bound emigrants, but developed into a city with the Comstock Lode, a silver strike in the mountains to the northeast.

Prior to 1969, Carson City was also the county seat of Ormsby County.

In 1969, the county was abolished and Carson City and a few small surrounding settlements within the former county were merged into a newly formed independent city called Carson City Consolidated Municipality.

Illustration of Carson City in 1877

In 1858, Abraham Curry bought Eagle Station and thereafter renamed the settlement Carson City.

Curry had decided for himself that Carson City would someday serve as the capital city and left a plot open in the center of town for a future capitol building.

As predicted, Carson City was selected as the territorial capital, besting Virginia City and American Flat.

The Legislature named Carson City to be the seat of Ormsby County and selected the hotel as the territorial prison with Curry serving as its first warden.

When Nevada became a state in 1864 during the Civil War, Carson City was confirmed as Nevada's permanent capital.

The Virginia & Truckee Railroad was built between Virginia City and Carson City.

A wooden flume was also built from the Sierra Nevadas into Carson City.

The United States Mint operated a branch mint in Carson City between the years 1870 and 1893, which struck gold and silver coins.

By 1880, almost a thousand Chinese people, " one for every five Caucasians ," lived in Carson City.

Carson City's population and transportation traffic decreased when the Southern Pacific Railroad built a line through Donner Pass, too far to the north to benefit Carson City.

The monthly cost of ADC to more than 100,000 recipients in the county is 4.4 million dollars, said C. Virgil Martin, president of Carson Pirie Scott & Co., committee chairman.

The Ormsby House is currently the tallest building in downtown Carson City, at a height of 117 feet.

Carson City is the smallest of the United States ' 363 Metropolitan Statistical Areas.

The following is a list of the top employers in Carson City:

Carson City is governed via the mayor-council system.

Carson High is on Saliman Road.

While there are no ski slopes within Carson City, the city is located close to Heavenly Mountain Resort, Diamond Peak and Mount Rose skiing areas.

The following is a list of movies with scenes filmed in Carson City

The following is a list of films with scenes set in Carson City but filmed elsewhere

Carson City is home to one under-construction freeway Interstate 580.

JAC uses a smaller urban bus that is ideal for Carson City.

Hence Carson was not entirely wrong, and the Carson bandwidth rule for FM is still important today.

Kevin Carson is a contemporary mutualist economist and author of Studies in Mutualist Political Economy.

Spacey is well known in Hollywood for his impressions as when he appeared on Inside the Actors Studio he imitated, at host James Lipton's request: James Stewart, Johnny Carson, Katharine Hepburn, Clint Eastwood, John Gielgud, Marlon Brando, Christopher Walken, Al Pacino and Jack Lemmon.

Carson is reported to have found work in the saddle shop suffocating: he once stated " the business did not suit me, and I concluded to leave ".

Chouinard is reported to have thrown a fit, disrupting the camp to the point where Carson could no longer tolerate the situation.

The duel with Chouinard is said to have made Carson famous among the mountain men but was also considered uncharacteristic of him.

" ( Capp also spoofed Carson in his strip, in a 1970 episode called " The Tommy Wholesome Show.

Johnny Carson also did a fair impression, and even Joan Rivers imitated Sullivan's unique posture.

Carson also began learning the necessary languages.

Their boots also made too much noise, therefore Carson and Beale removed them and tucked them under their belts.

The president also proposed Carson as a lieutenant in the mounted rifle regiment, but the United States Senate rejected the appointment.

Instead, Carson fought when necessary, to round up and take prisoner all the Navajo he could find, to force them to go to Bosque Redondo, also called Fort Sumner.

Carleton had underestimated the number of Navajo that would arrive at Sumner, and also had ordered insufficient provisions, a factor that Carson deplored.

Oscar Lipps also presented a positive image of Carson in 1909: " The name of Kit Carson is to this day held in reverence by all the old members of the Navajo tribe.

Kit Carson also appears in Flashman and the Redskins ( 1982 ) by George MacDonald Fraser.

Before his death he played extensively in colleges, concert halls, coffee houses and also on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, as well as recording three further albums for Vanguard Records.

Stanford is also home to the original papers of Martin Luther King Jr., and history professor Clayborne Carson directs the King Papers Project.

* On August 9, 1988, in what became the biggest trade in NHL history ( also known as " The Trade Of The Century "), Wayne Gretzky was traded along with teammates Marty McSorley and Mike Krushelnyski from Edmonton to the Los Angeles Kings in exchange for Martin Gelinas, Jimmy Carson, three first round draft picks, and $ 15 million cash ( approximately $ 18 million CAD in 1988 ).

In Nevada, the state capital of Carson City is also an independent city, free of any county.

The Airplane also benefited greatly from appearances on national network TV shows such as The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson on NBC and The Ed Sullivan Show on CBS.

It's also a very cheerful recollection of the kind of self-searching, home-movie documentaries that Jim McBride, the director, and L. M. Kit Carson, the writer and actor, satirized so brilliantly in their fiction film, David Holzman's Diary.

The county seat is at Stevenson, which is also the county's largest city, although the Carson River Valley CDP is more populous.

Notable also is the success of Dr. Ben Carson.

David Letterman also received the first Johnny Carson Award at the First Annual Comedy Awards, where a clip show was shown showing his achievements, funny moments, sketches, and memorable guests.

He also appeared on " The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.