Wyatt Earp lived in Tonopah.
In Austin, a single sack of flour sold for $175,000.00.
Mark Twain (Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, etc.) worked for the first newspaper in Nevada,
the Territorial Enterprise.
Goldfield had a lightweight championship fight Labor Day, 1906. Nelson-Gans fought 42 rounds and ended with Gans winning because of a low blow.
The town of Tonopah may have been found by a burro.
Captain Truckee, a famous Indian, helped Fremont fight for California independence, helped emigrants cross Nevada and died from a tarantula bite.
In Pioche, 72 people died violent deaths before anyone died of natural causes.
Nye County is the third largest county in the United States.
The average Nevada ranch is 3,000 acres.
Nevada's average gross farm income is third in the nation.
Eighty-seven percent of Nevada land is controlled by the Federal government.
The worst part of the trail west was the 40-mile desert, in Pershing County.
The silver found in Virginia City helped buy Nevada's way into the Union, helped finance
the Civil War, founded San Francisco's Stock Exchange, and built San Francisco's hotels and
houses on Nob Hill.
Many mining towns were hit by fires and floods. In 1923, a fire took 55 blocks of Goldfield.
The Indians used more than 300 native plants for medicines, teas, salves, and powders.
In Nye County, there is a 515-acre Ichthyosaur Fossil area. Some fossils of sea serpents are
as large as 60 feet in length.
One winter was so cold that Washoe Lake was frozen solid.
Pyramid Lake is a prehistoric lake. A strange fish, the Cui-ui, is found there.
Early Indians believed a serpent lived in the bottom of Walker Lake, another prehistoric lake
in Nevada.
Nevada's first Governor, Henry Blasdel, had trouble going to visit Lincoln County, and had to live on lizards for a while.
