WALKER UNIVERSITY – International Institute of Supplementary
Education is situated in the State of Nevada exactly in the city of
Carson City, an important cultural and economic centre, and it
takes its name from the salt lake Walker that lies on the Lake
Lahontan prehistoric basins.

HISTORY OF NEVADA AND OTHER NEWS

Nevada, also known as “The Silver State”, is the land of cowboys
and pioneers, and it is situated in the American “Far West”.
Leather dealers and hunters explored its wide territory between
1820 and 1830. The most famous exploration is the one made
by John Fremont and the legendary Kit Carson in 1848.
In 1851 the Mormons made the first permanent settlement
founding the present town of Genoa. The dusty plains of stones
and cactus were the ideal place for ascetics and religious men
till 1858, when the discovery of Comstock Lode, a large gold and
silver reef, initiated Nevada into the money worship.
In 1881, after years of economic prosperity, people growth and a
rapid development of the mineral towns, there was a deep crisis
caused by the silver crash and the progressive mines run out.
The economy of the State could not base it-self only on the cattle
breeding: so, in 1931, rapid procedures for marriages and divorces
were introduced and the gambling, the today’s Nevada symbol, was legalized.
Nevada is the driest State of the United States and it has a surface
of 286.296 km squares. A large part of the territory is located in the
Great Basin, a group of almost desert plateaux that are crossed by
dry mountain chains. As the rivers don’t flow into the ocean, they
discharge their waters into natural basins forming many lakes.
The most important rivers are the Humboldt and the Colorado.
Among the lakes the most important are the Mead (on of the
largest artificial lakes in the world), the Pyramid, the Tahoe, the
Washoe and the Walker, from which our University takes its name.

CARSON CITY:
THE CAPITAL BETWEEN
PAST AND PRESENT

Carson City, is a city where the Old West reappears around every
corner: churches, museums and typical western style buildings…
It was founded as a community in 1858. Carson City is named
from the nearby Carson River, which explorer John Fremton
named for his scout Christopher “Kit” Carson. Carson City was
soon designated both the territorial capital and county seat of the
new Ormsby County. President Abraham Lincoln, recognizing the importance of Nevada’s silver and gold to the Union’s Civil War
effort, signed the proclamation that ushered Nevada into
statehood on October 31, 1864 and Carson City was selected
as the State capital city.
Following the discovery of gold and silver on the nearby
Comstock Lode in 1859, Carson City became a thriving
commercial center. The United States Mint in Carson City
was completed in 1869: it is today the site of the Nevada State
Museum, where people can admire the actual equipment used
to stamp over 50 million dollars in gold and silver coins.
The Community’s vitality continues today as a center of state
government. Conveniently located just 30 minutes to Reno,
20 minutes to Lake Tahoe and to the historic Comstock,
Carson City has become a thriving regional center for commerce
and recreation. As the city’s motto states, Carson City is indeed
“Proud of its Past… Confident of its Future”.

WALKER LAKE:
A MYSTERIOUS LAKE

The Salt Walker Lake is situated in the west of Nevada, at South
East of Carson City. It lies on the Lake Lahontan prehistoric basins
and the Walker River waters, which find into it their natural mouth,
supply it. According to the Walker River Paiutes (American Indians
who live in the reservation by the lake) tribal history, two serpents
live in the lake, a male and a female, and children were told not to
make fun of them or talk lightly about them.