Living Las Vegas. (includes related article on tourist attractions in Las Vegas, Nevada)

Sunset | February 1, 1998| | Copyright

Beyond the Strip's glitter, an amazing city is rising in the desert. Welcome to the West's new hometown

We are driving among the new subdivisions in Green Valley, southeast of Las Vegas, where the red tile roofs spread like tamarisk to the desert's edge. Out in the distance, the Strip flickers to life in the late-afternoon light. In the American imagination, Las Vegas has always been just the Strip - Sin City, Bedford Falls without George Bailey, Mardi Gras without Lent. Now Hal Rothman, professor of history at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, is showing me a ...

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