Sure it is. did you know that the area got its name in 1821 by a person called Rafael Rivera ?
Las Vegas is spanish for ''the meadows'', and there was originally a natural spring there that people would stop at for water, discovered around 1821?
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The name Las Vegas was given to the area in 1821 by Rafael Rivera, a member of the Antonio Armijo trading party that was traveling to Los Angeles, and stopped for water there on the Old Spanish Trail from New Mexico.