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| | Nevada History At A Glance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) |
 | | However, it is unknown who was the first white to enter into Nevada, as Peter Skeen Ogden, chief trader for the Hudson's Bay Co, also reported having led an expedition in 1828 into the Owyhee and Humboldt valleys. |
 | | Eight men, Smiling Jack Davis, James Gilchrist, Chat Roberts, Sol Jones, J. Chapman, E. Parsons, Tilton Cockerell, and John Squires, robbed the Central Pacific's Atlantic Express of $40,000 in gold, the payroll for Gold Hill's Yellow Jacket Mine. |
 | | Less than a year later, Cockerell, Chapman, Parsons, and Squires joined in a bloody prison break. |
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