Ok ... hold onto your hats ... the excitement of my hometown is sure to blow you away!!!! 
We are known for the world's largest trona deposit. (It's a mineral that is mined for soap, fertilizer, glass, etc.)
And the world's largest pronghorn (antelope) herd.
And in our history, we are known for the Chinese Massacre, where in the early 1900's a group of disgruntled people rounded up and killed a group of Chinese people working on the railroad.
And at various sorid times in our history, the nickname of my home town has been Sin City, USA and/or Murder of the Month Club.
60 Minutes has done a couple of broadcasts about the drugs, corruption, murders and scandals here.
Ooooohhhh, I'm proud! 
"We give dogs the time we can spare, the space we can spare and the love we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all. It's the best deal man has ever made" - M. Facklam
"We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams."- P.S. Beagle
"All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king." - J.R.R. Tolkien
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