The Nevada Experience #301
(Total length: 59:16; First broadcast: January 22, 1992)

• Segment #1: "The Forty Mile Desert"
  (Producer: Rosemary McCarthy; Length: 25:57)
  Excerpts from pioneer diaries are combined with contemporary photography to recreate the experience of the emigrants who crossed Nevada's forty mile desert in the 1840's and 1850's.
• Segment #2: "USS Nevada BB-36"
  (Producer: Curt Daniels; Length: 28:40)
  This segment tells the story of the battleship, USS Nevada, from December 7, 1941 until she was intentionally sunk by the US Navy in 1948. Oral histories from USS Nevada veterans attending the Pearl Harbor 50th anniversary ceremonies are combined with archival still photographs and motion pictures to tell the story of the "ship that wouldn't sink."

The Nevada Experience #302
(Total length: 59:10; First broadcast: April 28, 1992)

• Segment #1: "Natural Connections"
  (Producer: Rosemary McCarthy; Length: 20:27)
  "Natural Connections" profiles Mary Lee Fulkerson, the Palomino Valley basketmaker whose work, using native plant materials, has gained national recognition.
• Segment #2: "Boxing in Nevada"
  (Producer: Curt Daniels; Length: 24:53)
  The history of boxing in the Silver State during the initial period of development, 1897 to 1910, is detailed in "Boxing in Nevada."
• Segment #3: "The Final Leg"
  (Producer: Norm Nielsen; Length: 9:11)
  Period photographs and text from workmen's diaries and telephone company records are combined to tell the story of the construction of the final section of the transcontinental telephone line.
  

The Nevada Experience #303
(Total length: 55:33; First broadcast: January 14, 1993)

• Segment #1: "A Conversation with Virgil Wedge"
  (Producer: Bill Martin; Length: 18:26)
  Reno attorney Virgil Wedge has been both a participant in and an observer of the Nevada political scene for over 60 years. He was a friend and confidant of Senators Pat McCarren and Key Pittman. In "A Conversation With Virgil Wedge," he shares observations and recollections from his political and professional life.
• Segment #2: "Wovoka"
  (Producer: Rosemary McCarthy; Length: 21:35)
  "Wovoka" examines the life of Jack Wilson or Wovoka, a Paiute mystic whose visions led to the Ghost Dance Religion. From its origins among the Native Americans of Mason Valley, this religion founded on precepts contained in the visions of Wovoka quickly spread to other Native American tribes. Among the most fervent disciples of this new religion were the Lakota or Sioux, whose devotion to the Ghost Dance was a contributing factor to the massacre at Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
• Segment #3: "The Nevada Supreme Court and the Case of the Jarbridge Stage Robbery"
  (Producer: Norm Nielsen; Length: 10:18)
  The last stage coach robbery in the United States provided the Nevada Supreme Court with one of its most interesting and important decisions in the area of criminal law.