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Mid-1870s
Virginia City, Nevada, at the peak of the mining boom when the population was about 18,000, boasted one gambling house for every 150 people. That’s 120 of these places, primarily saloons!
Some of the more famous ones were the Delta, Gentry and Crittenden, Sazarac and Sawdust Corner.
