In this episode, we explore how nevada traded silver for sin. Imagine it's the fall of 1864. I mean, the American Civil War is just raging. The country is totally fractured. And President Abraham Lincoln desperately needs electoral votes to secure his reelection. Right. He's looking for any advantage he can get. Exactly. So he looks west to this sparsely populated, deeply chaotic mining territory. And to get them officially granted statehood before election day, Lincoln's political allies literally text an entire state constitution across the continent. Well, by text, you mean telegraph. Yeah, via telegraph. Yeah. It was the largest, most expensive telegraph transmission in history up to that point. And that territory, of course, was Nevada. It's just such a wild story. And that highly transactional pragmatic entry into the Union perfectly sets the  ...