I consider it my duty to send my best wishes for Nevada Day cheer to all of my fellow Silver Staters, and to educate all non-Nevadans about this glorious celebration of…Nevada.

Here’s a quote from James W. Hulse’s The Nevada Adventure: A History:

We who live in Nevada are likely to forget what a strange and forbidding landscape our state presents when compared with the usual habitats of men.

The odd thing is that the Imperial Palace wasn’t open yet when he wrote this.