In 1969, Nevada Revised Statutes 235.010 was amended by Assembly Bill 157 to make the legal description conform to the features of the seal. In 1999, the Nevada Legislature formally defined in the ...

A version of this article first appeared in the Reno Gazette Journal on Oct. 14, 2007. "Nevada's first state seal had a mistake on it," wrote Gary BeDunnah in "Discovering Nevada," a school text ...