Nevada Geography

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geography The geography for Nevada is kinda simple, but at the same time kinda hard so you could say it is complex. I will just blurt it out. For my rivers and lakes I have the Colorado River, Humboldt River, the awesome Pyramid Lake, Lake Tahoe, and last but not least, well it probably is the least Walker lake. Its bordering states are Arizona, California, Oregon, Idaho, and Utah. Those states are important, so remember them because i might give you a pop quiz. Nevada’s major cities are Carson City, Reno, and of course Las Vegas. But i don't think Las Vegas beats the Hoover Dam. The Hoover Dam is a hydroelectric plant. That was hard, well lets move on to the indian tribes. The native tribes are the Koso, The northern and southern paiute, panamint, shoshone, the ute and the small amount of Washo …show more content…
It was “born” during the civil war.it is the seventh largest state and once gambiling was banned. did you know that nevada has area 51. it is also the fourth largest gold producer. It has put out 36 million dollars in gold (remember that number). Thats a lot of gold, i wonder how large a hot tub i could get with that money. The wars of nevada have a small list but big names. Lets see some the wars:paiute war ,williams station massacre and the battles at pyramid lake.All the wars happened during 1860. famous people
My famous people are James W. Nye, and Henry blasdel.Henry blasdel was the first governor of nevada and he was born on 1/29/1825 and he died on 7/26/1900. He was a miner, farmer, merchant, and a river boat captain. James w. Nye was the only territorial governor and he was apart of the nevada senate.He was elected multiple times. They were awesome in their time period.

Natural resources My natural resources are silver,the never-to-be-eaten mercury,copper,tungsten,GOLD, and SILVER. Ashdown mine wages $298.2m. The gold price in nevada is $1,193. The GPD is $8.1B. Their greatest money makers are the mines.

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