Possible Clues:

• Ponderosa Ranch site
• American state capital Carson City
• TV channel set up in North America -- this region?
• Western state whose name means 'snow-covered' in Spanish
• Where Colin Kaepernick played college football
• State in western USA, capital Carson City
• Cameron's in an upset state
• Henderson's state
• West end of the Hoover Dam
• State prosecutor found at bottom of Russian river