Discoverers of the state of Nevada.

So here we have the American quarter dollar. The year of issue of this coin is 2006, mint: San-Francisco, USA. Total circulation – 1.519.140.

Missionaries and fur traders were in the vanguard of the exploration of the Nevada area. The missionary travels of Francisco Garcés from New Mexico to California in 1775–76 were imitated by other Spanish Franciscans. In 1825 Hudson’s Bay Company trappers explored the northern and central region, and two years later Jedediah Smith led a party of American traders into the Las Vegas Valley and across the Great Basin.

By 1830 the Old Spanish Trail was bringing traders to the area from Santa Fe and Los Angeles, and in 1843 and 1845 John C. Frémont’s explorations with Kit Carson publicized the Great Basin and the Sierra Nevada region. During the 1840s pioneers followed the Humboldt Valley–Donner Pass route to the Pacific Coast, and the Gold Rush of 1849 greatly expanded migration through Nevada to California.

Nevada, which came within U.S. sovereignty under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, was a part of California until it was incorporated into the newly organized Utah Territory in 1850. In 1849 a settlement was made at Mormon Station in Carson Valley, but the population remained sparse until the discovery of the famous Comstock Lode in 1859. From that time on Nevada ceased to be merely a highway for gold seekers on the way to California. Virginia City became the most famous of all the Western mining camps, and the rapid influx of prospectors and settlers resulted in the organization of Nevada Territory in 1861.