Find out more about the People & Events featured in Las Vegas: An Unconventional History.

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Williams Andrews Clark (1839-1925)

Guy McAfee (1888-1960)

Benjamin Siegel (1906-1947)

Benny Binion (1904-1989)

The Syndicate

African Americans in Las Vegas

Howard Hughes (1905-1976)

Herman "Hank" Milton Greenspun (1909-1989)

Estes Kefauver (1903-1963)

Patrick McCarran (1876-1954)

Betty Willis (1924-)

The Entertainers

The Culinary Union

Corporate Las Vegas

Early Las Vegas

Federal Projects and Las Vegas

Atomic Tourism in Nevada