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Nevada's history is the story of Native Americans, fur trappers, explorers,
pioneers, ranchers, farmers and miners. The state has more
mountains than any other in the Union and is located
almost entirely in the Great Basin.
It is an austere landscape.
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"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it
sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot
be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime."
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