Word: bighorn
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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...comparatively old Virginia City, Mountain City, Goldfield and the scattered "ghost towns," to the great open pit mines at Ely and such recent strikes as Jumbo in the northwest; its sheep and cattle; its agricultural industries (alfalfa, turkeys, cantaloupes) in the Fallen irrigation district; its abundant game-deer, antelope, bighorn sheep, duck, pheasant, sage hen, quail and myriad trout-there is little for them to say except that Nevada is so undeveloped that it is one place a man can still go and pioneer. Nevada still has railroads (the Battle Mountain to Austin, for example) powered by automobile engines. Tonopah...