Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nevada State law specifically bans cock fighting. Cock fighting is banned in Reno by a city ordinance...
Sirs: Your article, Nevada-"One Sound State" (TIME, March 8) is good with the exception of your statement concerning the climate of which you say: "-hot & dry in summer; so snow cold in winter that even the Governor gets ou and shovels." The climate is so varied in thi; big State that a simple "hot" or "cold" doe: not describe both ends of it at the same time Reno, for instance, does have cold, snowy win ters; but her summers are never hot. While Reno is summering with coolish days, and cooler nights, Las Vegas in the southern part...
Year-round average temperature in Northeast Nevada is 46.2°, in Southeast Nevada 64.5°. Most Nevadans like their State's climate...
Will concede that most people as well as most important people who have come to "One Sound State" have passed on through. But as a matter of historic interest please advise us who was the first white man to enter Nevada in 1775, or at any other date prior to 1826. Please give references...
First white man on record to enter what is now Nevada was Francisco Tomas Hermenegildo Garces, priest of the Order of St. Francis. Seeking a route to upper California from Sonora, Mexico, he crossed what is now the State's southwestern corner in 1775. Let Reader Edwards refer to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Dictionary of American Biography, C. A. Engelhardt's The Missions and Missionaries of California...