Which Western state's name is Spanish for "snow-covered"?

A were-beaver turns up in Thomas Pynchon's 1997 novel about which famous pair of surveyors? West Point graduate Jefferson Davis fought for the U.S. in which 1840s conflict? Frontier Days, a Western celebration, has been held each year since 1897 in which state capital? Which mountain range forms the western part of the central Appalachians? Which Western won the Oscar for Best Picture of 1992? Which word names both a stroke of a whip and one of the hairs fringing your eyelid? A white concrete and steel structure spans the hull of which sunken battleship, a national memorial since 1962? What is the long white robe worn by a priest at Mass called?