You may find some of these resources of particular interest:

• The First 100 Persons Who Shaped Southern Nevada: This site includes biographies of 100 of the most influential people in the history of Southern Nevada.
  
• Online Nevada Encyclopedia: A collection on encyclopedic entries relating to Nevada history along with collections of digitized artifacts.
  
• Southern Nevada: The Boomtown Years: This is the portal for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas' digitized collection of resources relating to the Southern Nevada boomtown era (1880s-1920). It includes a collection of teacher resources including primary source-based lesson plans for all grade levels.

For a particular interest in the Donner Party, review these resources:

• The Emigrants Guide to Oregon & California by Lansford Hastings
• Diary of Patrick Breen
• Interactive Map
  
• Ordeal by Hunger: The Story of the Donner Party by George Stewart
• The Donner Party, a PBS Video by Ric Burns
• The Donner Party Chronicles: A Day-by-Day Account of a Doomed Wagon Train, 1846-47 by Frank Mullen, Jr.
• Statistics and Maps (Source Unknown; please advise if you can identify the source)