* 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.

It was recorded with musical accompaniment for the first time in 1930 by Fiddlin ' John Carson, although to another folk hymn named " At the Cross ", not to " New Britain ".

One memorable story, as recounted to Johnny Carson, was about his meeting with then-President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Carson Palmer, the future star quarterback, was drafted in 2003, but did not play a snap that whole season, as Jon Kitna had a comeback year ( voted NFL Comeback Player of the Year ).

Also at the centre of many early stories was Ena Sharples ( Violet Carson ), caretaker of the Glad Tidings Mission Hall, and her friends: timid Minnie Caldwell ( Margot Bryant ) and bespectacled Martha Longhurst ( Lynne Carol ).

Ratings reached a low of 8 million in February 1973, Pat Phoenix quit as Elsie Tanner, Violet Carson ( Ena Sharples ) was written out for most of the year due to illness, and Doris Speed ( Annie Walker ) took two months ' leave.

The original cast was created by Tony Warren, with the characters of Ena Sharples ( Violet Carson ), Elsie Tanner ( Patricia Phoenix ) and Annie Walker ( Doris Speed ) as central figures.

Carson City's development was no longer dependent on the mining industry and instead became a thriving commercial center.

In 1969, Ormsby County was officially dissolved and Carson City took over all municipal services with an independent city status.

Phase 1 of the Carson City Freeway Project from US 395, just north of the city, to US 50 was completed in February 2006 and Phase 2A, extending from Rt.

In 1962, Silent Spring by American biologist Rachel Carson was published.

However, these early events received little attention, and it was not until 1957, when the New York Times reported an unsuccessful struggle to restrict DDT use in Nassau County, New York, that the issue came to the attention of the popular naturalist-author, Rachel Carson.

Another was the appearance of the best-seller Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, in 1962.

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

" Carson has stated that " From Smith to Ricardo and Mill, classical liberalism was a revolutionary doctrine that attacked the privileges of the great landlords and the mercantile interests.

Kosiński appeared 12 times on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson during 1971 – 73, and The Dick Cavett Show in 1974, was a guest on the talk radio show of Long John Nebel, posed half-naked for a cover photograph by Annie Leibovitz for The New York Times Magazine in 1982, and presented the Oscar for screenwriting in 1982.

He turned to Kit Carson to help him fulfill his plans of upgrading New Mexico and advancing his own career, as Carson's national reputation had boosted the careers of a series of military commanders who had employed him.

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.

Boontling briefly enjoyed a national audience in the mid-1970s when a Boontling speaker named Bobby ( Chipmunk ) Glover was a regular guest on the well-known The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson on the NBC television network.

In 1962 the publication of Silent Spring by long-time Audubon member Rachel Carson gave the campaign against " persistent pesticides " a huge national forum.

Hearn's career began in 1963 when he played Sir Dinidan in a national tour of Camelot with Biff McGuire and Jeannie Carson, standing by for McGuire, who played King Arthur.

Private Music's recordings earned multiple Grammy Awards ( including Etta James ' first ), and many more Nominations, achieving high recognition on national television, with numerous artist appearances on the Late Show with David Letterman, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and Jay Leno, Late Night with Conan O ' Brien, The Today Show, Good Morning America, CNN, Entertainment Tonight, etc.

After he learned to play the banjo, Strunk began entertaining locals and went on to wide recognition after appearances on national television network shows such as Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.

During the 1980s and early 1990s Townsend gained national exposure through his many appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.

He played in festivals and concerts during the late 1960s and early 1970s, and appeared on local television and national talk shows, including Johnny Carson, Steve Allen and Merv Griffin.

They appeared on 400 national television shows in the US, including The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour, The Red Skelton Show, The Muppet Show ( 1979 ), and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.

* Stand-up comedian Jerry Seinfeld, of Massapequa, New York, performed for a national audience for the first time, introduced by Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show.

As special assistant to the commanding general at Ft. Carson, Colorado, he won national recognition for reorganizing the base and boosting morale of the service people.