LAS VEGAS (AP) — If beauty played a role deciding Nevada's highest point, Wheeler Peak, crown jewel of Great Basin National Park at the eastern edge of the state, would be the winner hands down. [...] geography and topography conspired to make it Boundary Peak on the state's opposite border — a nondescript, scree-covered bump at the end of California that rises about 77 feet higher than picturesque Wheeler. Keyes said having the state's highest point is "kind of a bonus" for Nevada's least-populous county because the peak attracts hikers and campers who provide "a little boost to the economy." Esmeralda County residents are so proud of their peak that a few years back, before Keyes joined the commission, county leaders rejected a push by conservative activist Chuck Muth to have Boundary renamed in honor of Ronald Reagan. A nasty boundary dispute north of Lake Tahoe prompted a full survey of Nevada's western border in the early 1870s, and that produced the so-called Von Schmidt line, which shifted the border to the east of Boundary Peak, though only for about 20 years.