ELY, Nevada: In Your Backyard
ELY NEVADA, established in the 1870s as a stagecoach station and post office, is now the White Pine County seat. Copper mining was the impetus for the development of Ely Nevada. The early 1900’s saw the advent of successful copper mining operations. Because Ely Nevada is situated at the junction of Highway 50 and U.S. 93, it has grown to become the largest city in eastern Nevada. Ely Nevada is the hub for outdoor recreation and historic sites.
Ely’s greatest attraction to visitors, apart from comfortable lodgings, good food and magnificent natural surroundings, is the restored Nevada Northern Railway’s Ghost Train. Located in Ely Nevada, the historic Nevada Northern Railway Museum is housed in the former East Ely Railroad Depot. The Nevada Northern Railway Museum is open year-round, with steam and diesel-powered train rides, including dinner trains, throughout the year on select dates. Unique programs include: Be the Engineer, Ride with the Engineer, February Photo Shoots, Railroad Reality Weeks and Caboose Overnights. Summertime kids ride free Mondays through Thursdays. Private charters and group rates are available. Call 866-40-STEAM (866-407-8326) or 775-289-2085 for more information or visit the website at nnry.com.
Also in Ely Nevada is the White Pine Public Museum featuring historic photographs, Native American artifacts, mining equipment, and displays illustrate the rich mining history of the region. 2000 Aultman Street, Ely Nevada. Call 1-800-HY6-9350 (800-496-9350) for more information.
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Mason Nevada - Part 1 Into The Singatse Mountains
The Singatse Mountains reside between the Pinenut and Wassuk Range. These mountains and hills are rich in copper. Miners begin staking claims in the 1860's the problem is nobody knew how to smelt the copper till later in the 1800's and into the early 1900's. Therefore allot of boom towns rose up down some of these old wagon trails such as Nordyke, Wilson Canyon, Ludwig, Hudson, Thompson Smelter, Wabuska, Colony and of course Mason just to name a few. Ill take our viewers jeeping into the mountains of this range where eventually after trial and error I park right in front of the monolithic Blue Stone Mine entrance. At one time the Nevada Copper Belt Railroad traversed this small range having copper ore loaded to its cars to be unloaded to a local smelter for processing other times local ranchers, school children and other passengers simply used this shortline to visit small towns such as Mason. Today upon pulling up to the town site not much exist most of the newer part of town resides in the valley but up in this hills are remnants of the mill, mines and a few other foundations which are reminders as to what was! You can see the giant bluestone mill ruins kind of is reminiscent of what an ancient temple would like in a far off land. This is a beautiful mountain range so if you like beautiful desertscapes in the early morning of sunrise then your going to enjoy this little journey. You will also get to us drive right past one of the largest copper open pit mines in the country the Mason Valley Mines have been in operation for over a century and at one time they had other claims in the district and even connected with the Bluestone Mine underground.
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Outdoor Nevada S2 Ep4 | The Course of Nature
Explore the naturally sculpted twists and turns of Cathedral Gorge State Park. We travel back in time at the McGill Drugstore Public Museum and at the Dangberg Home Ranch Historic Park. Then on horseback, John takes us through one of the most scenic places in the Silver State.
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Outdoor Nevada | Full Episode 14 Historic Rides
In this episode: Steptoe Valley Flyer Train, Black Canyon River Raft, Friends of Nevada Wilderness and Marlette Flume Trail. ODNV0114HDBA
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Western Steam
Perhaps nothing personifies the old times like a steam locomotive, and that effect is carried further by putting an old time train behind it.
In Western Steam you'll visit the famed Nevada Northern, where time has stood still, with little changing in the last 60 years. You'll see steam locomotives #40 and #93 pulling vintage passenger and freight trains, a taste of times gone by.
You'll also visit Utah's beautiful Heber Valley Railroad, where you see #618 pulling a recreated freight train through some truly beautiful scenery.
If you like steam, then you'll want this program in your collection!Perhaps nothing personifies the old times like a steam locomotive, and that effect is carried further by putting an old time train behind it.
In Western Steam you'll visit the famed Nevada Northern, where time has stood still, with little changing in the last 60 years. You'll see steam locomotives #40 and #93 pulling vintage passenger and freight trains, a taste of times gone by.
You'll also visit Utah's beautiful Heber Valley Railroad, where you see #618 pulling a recreated freight train through some truly beautiful scenery.
If you like steam, then you'll want this program in your collection!
Outdoor Nevada | Episode 16: The Writer and the Rider
A day with Mark Twain, ice fishing, Zephyr Cove dinner ride, Red Rock Rendezvous. ODNV0116HDBA
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LAS VEGAS - WikiVidi Documentary
Las Vegas , officially the City of Las Vegas and often known simply as Vegas, is the 28th-most populated city in the United States, the most populated city in the state of Nevada, and the county seat of Clark County. The city anchors the Las Vegas Valley metropolitan area and is the largest city within the greater Mojave Desert. Las Vegas is an internationally renowned major resort city, known primarily for its gambling, shopping, fine dining, entertainment, and nightlife. The Las Vegas Valley as a whole serves as the leading financial, commercial, and cultural center for Nevada. The city bills itself as The Entertainment Capital of the World, and is famous for its mega casino–hotels and associated activities. It is a top three destination in the United States for business conventions and a global leader in the hospitality industry, claiming more AAA Five Diamond hotels than any other city in the world. Today, Las Vegas annually ranks as one of the world's most visited tourist destina...
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Las Vegas, /lɑːs ˈveɪɡəs/ (locally, also pronounced as /lɑːs ˈvɛɡɨs/) officially the City of Las Vegas and often known as simply Vegas, is the most populous city in the state of Nevada and the county seat of Clark County. Las Vegas is an internationally renowned major resort city known primarily for gambling, shopping, fine dining and nightlife and is the leading financial and cultural center for Southern Nevada. The city bills itself as The Entertainment Capital of the World, and is famous for its mega casino--hotels and associated entertainment. A growing retirement and family city, Las Vegas is the 31st-most populous city in the United States, with a population at the 2010 census of 583,756. The 2010 population of the Las Vegas metropolitan area was 1,951,269. The city is one of the top three leading destinations in the United States for conventions, business and meetings. Today, Las Vegas is one of the top tourist destinations in the world.
Established in 1905, Las Vegas was incorporated as a city in 1911. At the close of the 20th century, Las Vegas was the most populous American city founded in that century (a distinction held by Chicago in the 19th century). The city's tolerance for various forms of adult entertainment earned it the title of Sin City, and has made Las Vegas a popular setting for films and television programs.
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Basin and Range National Monument
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00:05:18 3 See also
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Basin and Range National Monument is a national monument of the United States spanning approximately 704,000 acres of remote, undeveloped mountains and valleys in Lincoln and Nye counties in southeastern Nevada. It is described as one of the emptiest spaces in a state famous for its emptiness.
2017 AM: Eco-Frictions: Heritagization, Energopolitics and Fantasies
Cont. of Environmental Sustainability (Part 2)
Environmental crises and related concerns have increased enormously over the past few decades, creating disturbances for human and non-human life on a planetary scale. And yet, simultaneously, this trend is matched by an explosion of attempts to transform exploited sites into zones recovering from ecological disaster by any means necessary. Characterized by multiples and often conflicting moral regimes and economic systems, these ‘friction zones' are progressively changing under the pressure of two main phenomena: one that entails a re-evaluation of (cultural/natural) ‘heritage’ producing rhetorical, pragmatic, and political manipulations of the past; the other that features sustainable environmental renewal, promoting an alternative use of natural resources. In cases where heritage status is granted, territories become ‘consecrated’ and conflicts over local politics of history and memory are disguised by a universalistic rhetoric of ‘common good’ for global collectivities. In the latter case, instead, the dimension of environmental ‘sustainability’ assumes a central position, encouraging eco-fantasies and planetary investment in and for the future. While both processes have been carefully scrutinized by recent anthropological literature, their intersections and articulations require further ethnographic as well as theoretical exploration. Heritagization, energopolitics and fantasies of environmental sustainability expose the fractures in neo-liberal economic practice, incorporating universal moral imperatives into their own discourse: in the first case encouraging the preservation of heritage, in the second imagining the safeguarding of the planet. But how do such discourses talk one to each other in actual practice, and how can we possibly grasp their often uneven, unpredictable and multi-scalar connections?
Taking inspiration from emerging ethnographic approaches to ‘global connections’ (A. Tsing), ‘assemblages’ (A. Ong & S. Collier) and strategies of ‘studying through’ (C. Shore & S. Wright), this panel proposes to scrutinize the zones of eco-friction that are formed in these spaces of collision and intersection between global and local pressures, of past and future predicaments, of commitments to protect and commitments to renew. How do politics of the past intersect and articulate with policy and politics of/for the future in these friction-ridden spaces? What specific cultural and historical paths contribute to forging ‘zones of awkward engagement’ with the environment in different ethnographic sites? And what kinds of economic and moral relations stem from the intersection between the entangled phenomena we have mentioned?
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Las Vegas | Wikipedia audio article
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00:02:52 1 History
00:07:49 2 Geography
00:10:08 2.1 Climate
00:15:37 2.2 Nearby communities
00:16:24 2.3 Neighborhoods
00:16:42 3 Demographics
00:22:27 4 Economy
00:22:47 4.1 Tourism
00:23:31 4.1.1 Downtown casinos
00:24:53 4.1.2 Las Vegas Strip
00:25:21 4.2 Development
00:28:17 4.3 Other industries
00:28:57 5 Culture
00:30:51 6 Sports
00:32:04 6.1 List of teams
00:32:14 6.1.1 Major professional teams
00:32:23 6.1.2 Minor professional teams
00:32:33 6.1.3 Amateur teams
00:32:42 6.1.4 College teams
00:32:51 7 Parks and recreation
00:33:39 8 Government
00:35:45 8.1 City council
00:35:54 9 Education
00:36:04 9.1 Primary and secondary schools
00:36:36 9.2 Colleges and universities
00:37:23 10 Media
00:37:33 10.1 Newspapers
00:39:55 10.2 Broadcast
00:40:35 10.3 Magazines
00:40:52 11 Transportation
00:46:15 12 Notable people
00:46:25 13 See also
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Las Vegas (, Spanish for The Meadows; Spanish: [laz ˈβeɣas]), officially the City of Las Vegas and often known simply as Vegas, is the 28th-most populated city in the United States, the most populated city in the state of Nevada, and the county seat of Clark County. The city anchors the Las Vegas Valley metropolitan area and is the largest city within the greater Mojave Desert. Las Vegas is an internationally renowned major resort city, known primarily for its gambling, shopping, fine dining, entertainment, and nightlife. The Las Vegas Valley as a whole serves as the leading financial, commercial, and cultural center for Nevada.
The city bills itself as The Entertainment Capital of the World, and is famous for its mega casino–hotels and associated activities. It is a top three destination in the United States for business conventions and a global leader in the hospitality industry, claiming more AAA Five Diamond hotels than any other city in the world. Today, Las Vegas annually ranks as one of the world's most visited tourist destinations. The city's tolerance for numerous forms of adult entertainment earned it the title of Sin City, and has made Las Vegas a popular setting for literature, films, television programs, and music videos.
Las Vegas was settled in 1905 and officially incorporated in 1911. At the close of the 20th century, it was the most populated American city founded within that century (a similar distinction earned by Chicago in the 1800s). Population growth has accelerated since the 1960s, and between 1990 and 2000 the population nearly doubled, increasing by 85.2%. Rapid growth has continued into the 21st century, and according to estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau, the city had 648,224 residents in 2018, with a metropolitan population of 2,227,053.As with most major metropolitan areas, the name of the primary city (Las Vegas in this case) is often used to describe areas beyond official city limits. In the case of Las Vegas, this especially applies to the areas on and near the Las Vegas Strip, which is actually located within the unincorporated communities of Paradise and Winchester.