Why is Nevada a State?

[kevin_standlee]

The History Guy takes up the subject of why Nevada is a state.

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Nevada does have a strange history, and THG doesn't have time to include the oddities like when Nevada assumed that California wouldn't mind giving up parts of Lassen and Modoc Counties, and when the state carved out a county from Nye County that would have no residents (Bullfrog County) in order to collect money from the federal government related to the nuclear waste disposal site.

THG's video does include the story of The Most Expensive Telegram Of All Time.

Comments

[calimac]

If the video were about what it says it's about, I might be interested (though mostly to check on its accuracy, as I know this story), but I quit from terminal boredom after he yammered on and on about how to pronounce the state's name. I've never even heard the mispronunciation he excoriates, so there was nothing here for me.

[kevin_standlee]

He does go on too long about that, but it is indeed a local issue. I see bumper stickers and the like telling people how to pronounce it. It gets more interesting later.