Nevada blev den 36:e amerikanska delstaten den 31 oktober 1864, efter en rekordlång och rekorddyr telegrafering till den 38:e Amerikanska kongressen dagarna före presidentvalet 1864.
Historik 1800-talet Nevada blev formellt en del av USA genom Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo tillsammans med Mexiko 1848.
Under senare delen av 1800-talet blev silverbrytning en storindustri i Nevada.
1900-talet 1951 gjordes de första kärnvapenproven i Nevada.
Vidare läsning Driggs, Don W. and Leonard E. Goodall. Nevada Politics and Government: Conservatism in an Open Society (1996). online edition, university textbook Elliott, Russell R., and William D. Rowley. History of Nevada (2nd ed. 1987) online edition Hulse, James W. The Nevada Adventure (6th ed., 1990), for middle schools Bennett, Dana R., "'The Up-Growth of New Industries': Transformation of Nevada’s Economy, 1918–1929," Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, 52 (Fall 2009), 175–97. DePolo, Ron, and Mark Pingle. "A Statistical History of the Nevada Population, 1860-1993," Nevada Historical Society Quarterly,Dec 1994, Vol. 37#4, pp 282–306 Douglass, William A. and Jon Bilbao, Jon. Amerikanuak: Basques in the New World (1975), scholarly study; ch 6 covers Nevada Elliott, Russell R. Nevada's Twentieth Century Mining Boom (1965). Glass, Mary Ellen. Silver and Politics in Nevada, 1892-1902 (1969) Goldman, Marion. Gold Diggers and Silver Miners (1981). Bushnell, Eleanore, ed. Sagebrush and Neon: Studies in Nevada Politics (2nd ed. 1976). Edwards, Jerome E. Pat McCarran: Political Boss of Nevada (1982), highly detailed narrative covers 1916 to 1954 Elliott, Gary E. Senator Alan Bible and the Politics of the New West (1994) Mack, Effie Mona. Nevada: A History of the State from the Earliest Times through the Civil War (1936) Raymond, Elizabeth. George Wingfield: Owner and Operator of Nevada (1992) Titus, A. Constandina. ed. Battle Born: Federal-State Conflict in Nevada during the Twentieth Century (1989)
Källor Reid, John B.. and Ronald M. James, eds. Uncovering Nevada'S Past: A Primary Source History of the Silver State (2004)
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