But this raises a larger question: why, after 164 years, does the federal government still own 76% of the state of Nevada?
It's insane.
“But this raises a larger question: why, after 164 years, does the federal government still own 76% of the state of Nevada?”
First of all your number is low. Nevada is 82% “owned” by the Feds. Secondly, the Federal Government again “owns” 28% of the entire country, but most of it is in the states to the West of Texas! Nevada is the worst, Utah 66%, Oregon, 53%, and California at a 48%! Time for them to return most all of it to the states from which they extorted it. The claim that they got it by reason of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo directly from Mexico the war with Mexico ended. What a pant load!