Senator Carson......................Art of War........Wesley Snipes......Black man lead actor.........to Baltimore's airport......named for a Black supreme court chief justice....................Carson City, NV.......connections to Virginia.............DMV........DC.........Maryland and Virginia...........the beltway...............495........goes round and round........Wash DC......Wash state, Pacific NW...........Cold Blood............assassins..........Snipes and the White guy in Cold Blood......Ben's Chilli Bowl..........bowls are round........go around Cape Horn..........Tierra Del Fuego........Land of Fire.......Chili has a more Southern point than Argentina.

Illustration of Carson City in 1877

The Washoe people have inhabited the valley and surrounding areas for about 6,000 years.^[4]
The first European Americans to arrive in what is now known as Eagle Valley were John C. Frémont and his exploration party in January 1843.^[5] Fremont named the river flowing through the valley Carson River in honor of Kit Carson, the mountain man and scout he had hired for his expedition. Later, settlers named the area Washoe in reference to the indigenous people.^[6]
By 1851 the Eagle Station ranch along the Carson River was a trading post and stopover for travelers on the California Trail's Carson Branch which ran through Eagle Valley. The valley and trading post received their name from a bald eagle that was hunted and killed by one of the early settlers and was featured on a wall inside the post.
As the area was part of the Utah Territory, it was governed from Salt Lake City, where the territorial government was headquartered. Early settlers bristled at the control by Mormon-influenced officials and desired the creation of the Nevada territory. A vigilante group of influential settlers, headed by Abraham Curry, sought a site for a capital city for the envisioned territory.^[7] In 1858, Abraham Curry bought Eagle Station and the settlement was thereafter renamed Carson City.^[8] Curry and several other partners had Eagle Valley surveyed for development. Curry decided Carson City would someday serve as the clived in