Yep, thankfully most people will never really know Nevada. As an exploration geologist I’ve been in every valley and range in the state and cowboyed in central Nevada for two years. I like Idaho better because I live where we actually have water...but boonies Nevada is a close second.
I have spent a good portion of my life working on the bombing range north of I-80 between Salt Lake City and Wendover.
It is an amazing area. The remains of the donner party is still visable, there is an old WW2 prisoner camp out there, mostly just outlines of the buildings, and a great ghost town called Lucin.
Lucin (spelling probably wrong) was a thriving town of mostly Chinese railroad workers , 20,000 strong that burned to the ground. The old town dump contains Chinese pottery and china dating back to the 1870’s.
It is amazing how pristine an area can be kept when it is on a bombing range.
.....Bob