This is my problem. If "I" the government own land and then "I" allow brother Nevada to draw boarders and put in place articles of corporation and then become a member of the "United States" which includes the protections of the Constitution how do "I" now have claim of any land within those boarders?
The Nevada Enabling Act of 1864 outlined what land the federal government deeded to the state and for what purpose. Everything else they kept. After statehood additional land was disposed of through the Homestead Act. Some was sold for through other means. But nothing voided the governments ownership of what remained.