Casino History
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Gambling: Ban
Gaming History
Gold Hill Mining District (Utah Territory)
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Quick Fact - Early Gambling Ban
1859 Before Nevada became a state (1864), a few hundred miners at Gold Hill — in what then was the Territory of Utah — passed some anti-crime laws. One forbade gambling: “No Banking games, under…