NEVADA   

All for Our Country

    Well we're finding out some fun things on the internet.   This is our big haul on postcards.  We have more postcards from Nevada than any other state, Thanks to one special lady and her friend!  We love you thanks so much!   Let me tell about some of the places we learned about.   Area 51:  its a specialized military area with no one outside the military allowed in, we were told the desert area was long and lonely.  This is near the Extraterrestrial Highway near Rachel, NV--cool holographic postcards of stealth planes and mountains.  Hoover Dam:  been there...quite an impressive gander over the edge!  726 ft high, on the Colorado River.  Las Vegas gets much of their water and electricity here.  Reno:  beautiful city lights.  Great Basin Nat'l Park:  Baker Lake, elevation 10,620.  Virginia City, Chollar Mine:     read a poem that my grandma had recorded in an autograph book:  "Make new friends but keep the old .  The one is silver,  the other gold." "Bonanza"  was supposed to have been filmed here.  Goldfield:  halfway between Reno and Vegas, lots of mining  Amargosa River Navigation Company:  ?  Sail and gamble between Vegas, Reno & Lake Tahoe.   Dayton: Route of the Pony Express  Tonopah: more mines.  The Desert Queen has mined $$$$150 millon in silver!

As a "tweener"  we spent Christmas in Las Vegas with extended family one year.  We arrived in the dark and I remember watching the lights get brighter and brighter for what seemed like hours until we finally arrived.  I grew up in the midwest and it was strange to no cold or snow for the holiday.  It was one of those special Christmas memories because we were with family!

all our postcards, resouces and then some

  send a Nevada E-card!!

http://www.clan.lib.nv.us/1%5Flaunch/  History of Nevada, interactive, multimedia

http://dmla.clan.lib.nv.us/docs/kids/  Nevada Kids Page

http://agri.state.nv.us/AGRI_JustKids.htm  Nevada Agriculture kids page

http://www.travelnevada.com/map_state.asp  Map of Nevada

Games on states & color pages http://dmla.clan.lib.nv.us/docs/kids/fun.htm (links)

http://dmla.clan.lib.nv.us/docs/kids/game/default.htm symbols of Nevada matching game

http://factfinder.census.gov/home/en/kids/kids.html click on the state get the info…quick and simple

http://dmla.clan.lib.nv.us/docs/kids/ Nevada’s official kids site…
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/es/nv

Statehood: October 31, 1864;  36th admitted to the union

 Nevada: from Spanish meaning snow-capped.

Population: 1,998,257 #35

Capital: Carson City (pop 52,457 )

Size: 110,567 square miles, #7

Motto:  All for our country

Nickname:  The Silver State

Flower: Sagebrush

Tree: Bristlecone pine and single-leaf piñon

Bird:  Mountain bluebird

Land Mammal: desert bighorn sheep

Fossil:  Ichthyosaur

Gem: Fire opal

Economy:   filmography (did you know over 600 movies have been made in NV?)  MINING: Among its products are gold, silver, copper, zinc, brucite, magnesium, magnesite, manganese, tungsten, uranium, mercury, lead, non-metallics, oil, coal, iron.

AGRICULTURE: Cattle, horses, sheep, hogs, poultry, hay, wheat, corn, potatoes, rye, oats, alfalfa, barley, vegetables, dairy products, some fruits.

Famous Nevadans:John C. Frémont, Jedidiah Strong Smith, Andre Agassi,Thelma Pat Nixon, Wayne Newton, Siegfried and Roy (Siegfried Fischbacher and Roy Horn)

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Great state Nevada

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bugaboo girl

 Is Nevada a great state you ask? Well it's State bird is the moutain bluebird. It's state flower is sagebrush. It's motto is: All for our country. And it is the 36th state. So it is a Great state.