Home means Nevada, Home means the hills, Home means the sage and the pines... - from the official state song
The state of Nevada (Spanish, nevada; snow-covered) is located in the Pacific Time zone - Greenwich minus eight - in the western United States. It is bordered by the states of Oregon and Idaho on the north, Utah and part of Arizona on the east, the Colorado River (including Hoover Dam and Lake Mead) on the southeast, and on the southwest and west by California. The two states share Lake Tahoe, in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
Known as The Silver State - for the 1859 discovery of the Comstock Lode - Nevada entered the Union as the 36th state in 1864 (during the American Civil War; hence its other nickname, the Battle Born State, which appears on Nevada's state flag).
Its topography is primarily desert, including the Great Basin region between the Sierra and the Rockies; and its official state symbols include such indigenous flora and fauna as the desert bighorn sheep and desert tortoise, sagebrush, the bristlecone pine, the Lahontan cutthroat trout and the mountain bluebird.
Nevada locales have appeared on both the big- and small-screen: in feature films such as The Misfits (1961), The Shootist (1976) and Superman (1978), as well as on television - perhaps most notably in the classic TV Western series Bonanza (1959-73).
(A future Anderson Supermarionation series, Thunderbirds, is said to have been influenced, in part at least, by Bonanza.)
In the World of Supercar[]
The sheer enormity of Nevada's semi-arid "back of beyond" provides a perfect locale for the isolated facility known as Black Rock One - the secret base of Supercar!
Trivia[]
- The Nevada desert also figures prominently in an episode of Thunderbirds, as - of all things - a shooting location, for a science-fiction film! (Martian Invasion)