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A Nevada what? Is that legal? Nevada was never known as a rancher’s paradise - or any kind of paradise, for that matter - until the day the Bugsy Siegel stood out in the desert with the wind ruffling Warren Beatty’s forelock and had an epiphany, and it wasn’t the romantic history of a vast empty desert that had to be crossed by 49ers heading for the Gold Rush on the Overland Trail, and it wasn’t the divinely inspired testing ground for atomic bombs. What it was defies history altogether, but it did lead to the popularity of Nevada as a state for people to stagger out of casinos with their pockets full of money to buy a ranch with, and that did a lot for the “Nevada Ranch” concept. Nevada is state-proud; it names everything, beginning with the State Fish (appropriately enough called the “Cutthroat Trout”). So if you happen to need a place to relax after a strenuous night at the poker tables in Vegas, hold out for a Royal Flush. That’s the hand that buys the ranch.
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