The city has served as the capital of Nevada since statehood in 1864 and for much of its history was a hub for the Virginia and Truckee Railroad, although the tracks were removed in the 1950s.

Their 2011 international karaoke competition has attracted ABC producers to help host America's karaoke competition in Las Vegas Nevada called Karaoke Battle USA.

Mark Twain's humorous short story " Nevada Funeral " similarly has a character saying a series of euphemisms for death.

The four states bordering Mexico ( Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California ), and the other southwest states such as Colorado, Nevada and Utah have large expatriate Mexican populations, which in effect has produced a wide variety of authentic Mexican restaurants.

Assemblyman Harry Mortenson has proposed a bill to recognize the alternate ( quasi-Spanish ) pronunciation of Nevada.

Nevada has 172 mountain summits with of prominence.

* Las Vegas Valley, Nevada, United States, what was once an oasis in the vast Mojave desert has over the years grown into a metropolitan area.

Russel Hurlburt, a psychologist at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas has studied personality by having individuals record their individual experiences at random times throughout the day.

Nevada is the only state that has no significant restrictions against slot machines both for public and private use.

This species has been recorded from Orange County, California, near Westminster ; near a fish farm in Conejos County and the South Platte drainage, Colorado ; several counties in Florida ; Hawaii ; an unnamed tributary to Big Branch Bayou in Lacombe, Louisiana ; Beaverhead Rock Pond ( Madison County ), Montana ; Clark County, Nevada ; and Texas.

Use of mules by U. S. forces has continued during the War in Afghanistan ( 2001-present ), and the United States Marine Corps now conducts an 11-day Animal Packers Course at its Mountain Warfare Training Center located in the Sierra Nevada near Bridgeport, California.

" There has been recent common usage of the term in the media in Nevada and Ohio.

Throughout the ages, their traditional ancestral territory has spanned three states: Arizona, California and Nevada.

* Lola Montez has a lake named after her in the Tahoe National Forest in Nevada County, California.

The rest of the motion has been found in an area east of the Sierra Nevada mountains called the Walker Lane or Eastern California Shear Zone.

Fredo has been found and persuaded to return to Nevada, and in a private meeting he explains his betrayal to Michael ; he was upset about being passed over to head the family, and helped Roth, thinking there would be something in it for him.

* Tahoe Area Rapid Transit, operated by Placer County, has a route connecting Truckee with Lake Tahoe and the state of Nevada.

It has only been found in blue oak-Digger Pine associations in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, a habitat which occurs at moderately high elevations.

* The City of Reno, Nevada in the United States also has an annual hour-long tomato fight that started in 2009.

Everything has been prepared for a quiet family life in newly civilized Dodge City, but Hatton is asked by Colonel Dodge to clean up Virginia City, Nevada, another railroad town more dangerous than Dodge City had ever been.

According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of, the smallest county in Nevada, of which is land and ( 0. 13 %) is water.

The county has 3 physiographic sections ( 70 % Great Basin section, 20 % Payette, 10 % Snake River Plain ) and 4 watersheds ( 45 % Humboldt River, 30 % Upper Snake River, 20 % central Nevada desert, 5 % Pilot-Thousand Springs ).

The Nevada Wolf Pack currently employs a formation called the " pistol ", in which the running back, instead of lining up next to the quarterback, lines up behind the quarterback, who in turn has lined up two to three yards behind the center.

On the West Coast, WON BASS has been the main regional circuit in operation since the 1980s Annually, WON BASS conducts the U. S. Open of Bass Fishing at Lake Mead, Nevada which annually pays back nearly $ 500, 000 per event.

Scouting in Nevada has a long history, from the 1910s to the present day, serving thousands of youth in programs that suit the environment in which they live.

The Uniform Statutory Rule Against Perpetuities validates non-vested interests that would otherwise be void under the common law rule if that interest actually vests within 90 years of its creation ; it has been enacted in 26 states ( Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Kansas, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia ), the District of Columbia, and the U. S. Virgin Islands, and is currently under consideration in New York.

A law enacted in 1991 directed that the word " Nevada " appear below the star and above the sagebrush sprays, thus producing the current design.

Texas, Washington, Colorado, Connecticut, Indiana, Kansas, Nevada, North Dakota, Arkansas, Georgia, Maryland, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Utah, Vermont, Wisconsin, Florida, Tennessee, Virginia, and Arizona have also enacted Three Strikes laws for habitual offenders, making petty larceny a felony if there have been prior convictions.

Arkansas, Nebraska, Mississippi, Nevada, New Jersey, Utah, West Virginia and Wisconsin have enacted various prohibitions on red light, speed or other photo enforcement camera uses.

" Specifically, Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, and Washington DC have enacted legislation allowing the medical use of cannabis by their citizens.

Pawn Stars, an American reality television series ( 2009 ) appearing on the History Channel, chronicles the daily activities at the Gold and Silver Pawn Shop in Las Vegas, Nevada.

In the eastern part of the state, below the Sierra Nevada, there is a series dry lake beds that were filled with water during the last ice age ( fed by ice melt from alpine glaciers but never directly affected by glaciation ; see pluvial ).

He was also a consulting producer on the ABC series Push, Nevada with Ben Affleck.

The 1993-1994 CBS comedy / western television series Harts of the West, starring Beau Bridges and his father, Lloyd Bridges, was filmed in Mayer but set in Nevada.

The Ponderosa Ranch of the TV series Bonanza was formerly located on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe.

Taschen's publications are available in a variety of sizes, from large tomes detailing the complete works of Leonardo Da Vinci, to surprisingly uncommon middle-sized books, to their " Icons " series of small, flexicover volumes which encapsulate themes of everything from old ads of Las Vegas, Nevada to male nudes.

Lasting 14 seasons and 430 episodes, it ranks as the second longest running western series ( behind Gunsmoke ) and still continues to air in syndication, The show centers around the Cartwright family, who live in the area near Lake Tahoe, Nevada.

However, NBC kept it because Bonanza was one of the first series to be filmed and broadcast in color, including scenes of picturesque Lake Tahoe Nevada.

As it enters the Lower Colorado River Valley, the Colorado delineates much of the Arizona – Nevada border, the entirety of the Arizona – California border, and is impounded by a series of dams, including Imperial Dam, where most of its flow is diverted into the All-American Canal to irrigate the Imperial Valley in California.

Another such feature is the Basin and Range province which covers most of the USA state of Nevada, forming a series of horst and graben structures.

" In the animated series, The Tick was assigned to The City after his " Cabinet of Terror " ( described by The Tick as the " deadliest engine of destruction 1974 had to offer ") exploded, leaving him unharmed, during his city assignment selection trials at the National Super Institute Convention in Reno, Nevada.

Along with the primary training base at Las Vegas, the Gunnery School operated a series of Auxiliary Airfields for training in southern Nevada:

It was used for all blasts in the Nevada test series in 1951, but since then has been used prime.

* Operation Quicksilver ( 1978 ), an American nuclear test series of eighteen blasts conducted at the Nevada Test Site in 1978 and 1979

Operation Tinderbox was a series of fifteen nuclear tests conducted at the Nevada Test Site in 1979 and 1980.

A series of sixteen nuclear tests conducted at the Nevada Test Site.

Operation Nougat was a series of 45 nuclear tests conducted ( with one exception ) at the Nevada Test Site in 1961 and 1962, immediately after the Soviet Union abrogated a testing moratorium, with the US ' " Mink " test shot taking place the day before the Soviets test-detonated the Tsar Bomba.

Operation Niblick was a series of 41 underground nuclear explosions conducted at the Nevada Test Site in 1963 and 1964.

Operation Latchkey was a series of 38 nuclear test explosions conducted in 1966 and 1967 at the Nevada Test Site ( with one exception ).

Operation Crosstie was a series of 48 nuclear tests mostly conducted in Nevada during 1967 and 1968.

Operation Bowline was a series of 48 nuclear test explosions conducted by the United States in 1968 and 1969 at the Nevada Test Site.

Operation Emery was a series of twelve nuclear tests conducted at the Nevada Test Site.

Thomas Bros. building in Irvine Thomas Guide is the title of a series of paperback, spiral-bound atlases featuring detailed street maps of various large metropolitan areas in the United States, in the metro areas of Boise, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Oakland, Phoenix, Portland, Reno-Tahoe, Sacramento, San Francisco, Seattle, Tucson, and Washington, D. C. Road Atlas titles are Arizona including Las Vegas, California Including portions of Nevada, and Pacific Northwest covering Washington, Oregon, Western Idaho, Southwestern British Columbia.

This graben was formed by a long series of earthquakes, such as the 1872 Lone Pine earthquake, that have moved the graben down and helped move the Sierra Nevada up.