The significance of The Last Frontier casino in American history

Restricted until 10 Aug. 2012.Las Vegas is a city that was born out of the history of American expansion into the west, and like many western cities retains some residual traits of the frontier. But unlike the other cities of its size, it was built entirely after the frontier had been officially declared closed by the U.S. Census. The frontier ethos was manifested again in various ways here, most distinctly in the casinos fashioned after old west style gambling halls, but also in the development of military technology and new economic enterprise. As Las Vegas became the fastest growing city in the country, it also became the site of a new symbolic architecture that monumentalized the frontier, monuments that would eventually be demolished to make way for new development