Las Vegas, a desert metropolis built on gambling, vice, shows and numerous other forms of entertainment, in just a century of existence has drawn billions of visitors and trillions of dollars in wealth to southern Nevada. The city was founded by ranchers and railroad workers but quickly found out that its greatest asset was not its horses, cows and springs but its casinos. Las Vegas’s embrace of Old West-style freedoms -especially gambling!- provided a perfect home for East Coast organized businesses of all sorts.

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