* State of Nevada

* Nevada State Capitol – original capitol still housing the governor's offices with museum exhibits

* Nevada State Railroad Museum – featuring the Inyo locomotive and relocated Wabuska Railroad Station

* Lake Tahoe – Nevada State Park

Nevada is officially known as the " Silver State " due to the importance of silver to its history and economy.

Parts of the film were shot at the Valley of Fire State Park near Overton, Nevada ; Paramount Studios ; and Lone Pine, California.

After some " cheat-proofing " modifications, the video slot machine was approved by the Nevada State Gaming Commission and eventually found popularity in the Las Vegas Strip and downtown casinos.

By way of comparison, the US State of Nevada which legalised gaming including slots several decades before NSW, had 190, 135 slots operating.

These include: Elephant Butte Lake in New Mexico ; Lake Ouachita, Lake Norfork, Beaver Lake ( Arkansas ) and Lake Hamilton in Arkansas ; Lake Powell, Lake Pleasant, and Lake Havasu in Arizona ; Castaic Lake, Lake George in Florida, Pyramid Lake, Silverwood Lake, Diamond Valley Lake, East Fork State Park Lake near Cincinnati Lewis Smith Lake in Alabama, Lake Cumberland, and Lake Murray in California ; Lake Lanier in Georgia ; Watts Bar Lake, Tennessee ; and Lake Mead, Nevada ; Lake Texoma, Lake Tawakoni, Lake Whitney, Possum Kingdom Lake, and Lake Buchanan in Texas ; Raystown Lake in Pennsylvania ; and in Virginia Smith Mountain Lake.

The Mojave Desert extends Eastward into the State of Nevada.

As Nevada and the State of Utah evolved, Weber County shrunk to its current size.

Geographically, the MW covers a broad expanse of the western United States, with member institutions located in California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, and Wyoming, and will expand back into Utah when Utah State University joins the conference in 2013.

On August 18, 2010, amidst rumors that Brigham Young was considering leaving the Mountain West to go independent in football and rejoin the Western Athletic Conference in all other sports, the Mountain West Conference officially extended invitations to California State University, Fresno and the University of Nevada, Reno.

Fresno State and Nevada accepted and would become the tenth and eleventh members of the league.

He was penalized $ 125, 000 by the Nevada State Athletic Commission in 1995 for a bribe to get one of his fights sanctioned.

In 2003, Arum complained about the judging in the September 13 bout between Oscar De La Hoya and Sugar Shane Mosley and suggested there was a vendetta against him from a member of the Nevada State Commission that led to De La Hoya's loss.

There were stories that it was named for Captain Robert Lyon, a survivor of the Pyramid Lake War in 1860, but Nevada State Archives staff discovered a county seal with the picture of the Civil War general and settled the conflict.

While only the third largest county by area in the State of Nevada, it is seventh largest county in area in the entire United States, not including boroughs and census areas in Alaska.

It is utilized at the state level in nineteen states: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington and Wisconsin ( National Conference of State Legislatures, 2011, Recall Of State Officials ).

The reasoning behind the stoppage, explained Nevada State Athletic Commission czar Marc Ratner, was that the referee and the fight doctor deemed that Vargas was unable to defend himself adequately against Mosley's right-hand shots.

Without Tom, he also appeared in the 1995 Martin Scorsese-directed film Casino in an uncharacteristically serious role as a dishonest Nevada State Senator.

* 30px State Route 58 ( CA SR-58 ), State Route 58 ( SR 58 ) is an east-west highway across the California Coast Ranges, the southern San Joaquin Valley, the Tehachapi Mountains, which border the southern Sierra Nevada, and the Mojave Desert.

Today, this car is in the National Automobile Museum in Reno, Nevada.

The 1949 Mercury Coupe James Dean drove in the movie is part of the permanent collection at the National Automobile Museum in Reno, Nevada.

* Las Vegas International Scouting Museum, Las Vegas, Nevada

* Museums — The Nevada County Historical Society operates Historic Firehouse No. 1 Museum downtown and the Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad Museum in the Seven Hills Business District area.

The line still extends to Boulder City ; in 1985, the state purchased the section east of appropriately I-515, with the Nevada Southern Railroad Museum operating excursion trains over the easternmost seven miles ( 11 km ).

* Official website of the Central Nevada Museum, which is located in the town and which may be visited at no charge Retrieved 22 October 2009

Ely is a tourism center, and is home of the Nevada Northern Railway Museum.

In 2005, the Lied Discovery Children's Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada, opened " Growing Up With the Berenstain Bears ", an exhibition offering children the chance to experience life-size versions of Bear Country landmarks.

There were 3 original cars ; car 1 was badly damaged, car 2 survives in the Harrah Collection of the National Automobile Museum in Reno, Nevada and car 3 changed hands many times but was lost, presumed scrapped, in the 1950s.

Car 2 was shipped to Rudgwick in order for the work to be carried out before returning to the National Automobile Museum in Reno, Nevada

* Among the Sierra Nevada, California, 1868 at the Smithsonian American Art Museum

* Sierra Nevada Morning at the Gilcrease Museum

* Sierra Nevada at the Reynolda House Museum of American Art in Winston-Salem, NC

File: Albert Bierstadt, Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains. jpg | Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California, ( 1868 ), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.

File: Sierra Nevada Albert Bierstadt circa 1871. jpeg | Sierra Nevada ( c. 1871 – 1873 ), Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

*" The Baroque World of Fernando Botero " ( May 1-July 25, 2010 ), Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada

Purchased by the Nevada State Railroad Museum in Carson City, NV, in 1974, it was eventually brought back to Nevada and fully restored there in 1983 where it still runs today.

* 1947 – In Nevada, the Boulder Dam is renamed Hoover Dam a second time.

* Pick Up Stix – California, Arizona and Nevada

* Sam Woo Restaurant – California, Nevada

* 1984 – Katie Rees, American model, Miss Nevada USA 2007

* C. l. lestes: Mountain coyote – British Columbia and southeastern Alberta south to Utah and Nevada

* C. l. ochropus: California Valley coyote – California west of the Sierra Nevada

* 1989 – Sugar Ray Leonard and Roberto Duran complete their trilogy of boxing fights nine years after their first two fights, at the opening of the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada ; Leonard retains his WBC world Super Middleweight title by a 12 round unanimous decision.

* 1924 – Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada.

* 1955 – Operation Teapot: Teapot test shot " Wasp " is successfully detonated at the Nevada Test Site with a yield of 1. 2 kilotons.

* 1969 – Hawthorne Nevada Airlines Flight 708 crashes into Mount Whitney killing all on board.

In 1970, he made another TV special: Gene Kelly and 50 Girls and was invited to bring the show to Las Vegas, Nevada, which he duly did for an eight-week stint – on condition he be paid more than any artist had hitherto been paid there.

* 1944 – Annie Haslam, English singer-songwriter and painter ( Renaissance and Nevada )

* 1951 – Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flat.

* 1848 – Reinhold Sadler, 9th Governor of Nevada ( d. 1906 )

* 1962 – Nuclear weapons testing: The " Small Boy " test shot Little Feller I becomes the last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada National Security Site.

* 1952 – Nevada Barr, American author

* 1988 – The PEPCON disaster rocks Henderson, Nevada, as tons of space shuttle fuel detonate during a fire.

* 1953 – Nuclear testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conduct their first and only nuclear artillery test.

* 1965 – Janu Tornell, American model, Miss Nevada USA 1989

* 1905 – Las Vegas, Nevada, is founded when, in what later would become downtown, are auctioned off.

* 1931 – Gambling is legalized in Nevada.