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Silver State  n.  Nevada; a nickname alluding to its silver mines.






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"Silver State" Quotes from Famous Books



... had many hours ago dropped from my eyes, and I saw Arizona clear, and felt no repining for roses and jasmine. They had been a politician's way of foisting one more silver State upon our Senate, and I willingly renounced them for the real thing I was getting; for my holiday already far outspangled the motliest dream that ever visited me, and I settled down to it as we settle down in our theatre chairs, well pleased with the flying pantomime. And ...
— Red Men and White • Owen Wister

... deserts excel in the richness and abundance of their ores, while in the future these camps bid fair to outrival in development all other sections of the United States. A few years ago the southern part of the Silver State was considered utterly worthless and a region to be shunned like a charnel-house, on account of its barren and dangerous character. Now it is the Mecca of ...
— Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania • Jewett Castello Gilson



Words linked to "Silver State" :   Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, America, U.S.A., Reno, Lake Mead, Carson City, USA, Battle Born State, southwest, United States of America, southwestern United States, Colorado River, U.S., Death Valley, American state, the States, Lake Tahoe, capital of Nevada, Colorado, NV, Hoover Dam



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