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STATE SYMBOLS ONE
STATE SYMBOLS TWO
NEVADA NATIVE PEOPLE
EARLY NEVADA PIONEERS
SETTLING NEVADA
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Nevada's state_______ lives in the higher mountains. It eats harmful insects. It sings a s short clear song like a robin. School children and the people voted as early as 1930 to make it the official state _______but it didn't happen until 1967.
What is the Mountain Bluebird?
100
in 1977 this fossil became Nevada's first state fossil. A full skeleton of this extinct marine reptile was found in Berlin, Nevada and was 55 feet long which was sort of a prehistoric fish lizard.
What is the Ichthyosaur? ICK-THE-O-SAUR
100
This mummy is the oldest human mummy found in North America. It was discovered in 1940 13 miles (21 km) east of Fallon, Nevada by the husband-and-wife archaeological team of Sydney and Georgia Wheeler.
What is Spirit Cave Man?
100
Hunter, trapper, fur trader, trailblazer, author, cartographer and explorer of the Rocky Mountains, the American West Coast and the Southwest during the 19th century. He was the first United States citizen to explore and eastward cross the Sierra Nevada and the treacherous Great Basin. He also found the South Pass his path became the main route used by pioneers to travel to the Oregon Country.
Who was Jedediah Smith?
100
In 1855, William Bringhurst established a settlement near the Las Vegas Springs, where he and his group tried to convert the Southern Paiutes to their religion. They would later build a fort near what is today Las Vegas Blvd and Washington Avenue. It would last for two years including the discovery of lead at Mount Potosi.
What was the Mormon Mission in Nevada?
200
Nevada has two state ________ Both grow on the dry mountains.
What is Bristlecone Pine and the Single-leaf Pinon?
200
This desert animal lives in dry deserts. It can go for long periods without water and is one of Nevada's state animals.
What is the Desert Bighorn Sheep?
200
A member of an ancient American Indian people of the southwestern US, who flourished between circa 200 BC and AD 1500. The earliest phase of their culture, typified by pit dwellings, is known as the Basket Maker period; the present day Pueblo culture developed from a later stage. There name means the ancient ones.
Who were the Anasazi?
200
He was a fur trader and a Canadian explorer of what is now British Columbia and the American West. He explored areas of the Great Basin, following the Humboldt River to its dry sink in modern-day Nevada.
Who was Peter Skene Ogden?
200
This was vein of metal ore located under the eastern slope of Mount Davidson, a peak in the Virginia Range in Nevada (then western Utah Territory). It was the first major discovery of metal ore in the United States. Name this famous vein of metal.
What is the Comstock Lode?
300
Nevada is sometimes called the _______________State. With pale green leaves and yellow flowers in the springs, it became our state flower in 1917. Farmers tell you that this flower is a sign of fertile soil and a great symbol of the American West.
What is the Sagebrush?
300
This state native _______ lives in many different lakes, creeks, and streams. It can live in conditions where no other trout can live. The largest one caught was three feet long.
What is the Lahontan Cutthrorat Trout?
300
Name the famous tourist attraction in Nevada which is an excavated dwelling of the Anasazi sometimes called Pueblo Grande de Nevada.
What is the Lost City?
300
He was an African American mountain man, fur trader, and explorer. He discovered a pass through the Sierra Nevada region which bears his name and he later built a toll road across the pass.
Who was Jim Beckwourth?
300
Nevada __________ was a federal _________, a part of the Union, and President Abraham Lincoln appointed Governor James Warren Nye, a former Police Commissioner in New York City, to ensure that it stayed that way. Governor Nye put down any demonstration in support of the Confederacy, and there were some. The federal government bought much of Nevada's silver and gold bullion to support its currency. What federal taxes there were at the time that could be effectively collected went into Union coffers. Therefore, Nevada's creation as a __________ on March 2, 1861 by the United States Congress ensured that its riches would help the Union and not the Confederate cause.
What is the Nevada territory?
400
Native Americans once used this kind of grass as a valuable source of food. Today wildfire and livestock feed on this tough native grass which can reseed itself even after it has been damaged by fire or animals.
What is Indian Rice Grass?
400
________________has long been a favorite stone used by Native Americans. This gemstone was made official in 1987.
What is Turquoise?
400
Nevada's five modern Nevada Native American nations.
Who are the Washo, Northern Paiute, Shoshone, Southern Paiute and Mohave groups?
400
He was a Mexican scout and the first non-Native American to set foot in the Las Vegas Valley. He discovered the Las Vegas Springs. The abundant artesian spring water discovered at Las Vegas shortened the Spanish Trail to Los Angeles. About 14 years later after his discovery, John C. Frémont led an expedition west and camped at Las Vegas Springs on May 13, 1844.
Who is Raphael Rivera?
400
This was created on October 31, 1864.
What is Nevada statehood?
500
This form of rock is found in many natural surroundings and is used to build many beautiful buildings, like Nevada's State Capital Building. In June of 1987 it became Nevada's official state rock.
What is Sandstone?
500
This reptile lives in Nevada's most southern part. It burrows underground to get away from the heat of summer or the cold of winter.
What is the Desert Tortoise?
500
Prominent female Native American activist and educator, and an influential figure in the United States' nineteenth-century Indian policies. Her book, Life Among the Paiutes: Their Wrongs and Claims, is an autobiographical account of her people during their first forty years of contact with explorers and settlers.
Who is Sarah Winnemucca?
500
He was an American military officer, explorer, and politician who became the first candidate of the anti-slavery Republican Party for the office of President The "largest and most expensive trophy in college football is a replica of a cannon that accompanied him on his expedition through Oregon, Nevada and California in 1843–44". The annual game between the University of Nevada, Reno and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas is for possession of the ________ Cannon of the United States. There are streets and a school in Las Vegas named after him.
Who was John C. Fremont
500
During the Civil War signed a paramount allegiance clause which is name of the state motto.
What is "All for our Country?"