Nevada History

 
American Ground Zero: The Secret Nuclear War
by Carole Gallagher, Keith Schneider
(Hardcover)

Beyond the Mafia: Italian Americans and the Development of Las Vegas (Wilbur S. Shepperson Series in History and Humanities, No. 37)
by Alan Richard Balboni, Jerome E. Edwards
Hardcover from Univ of Nevada Pr

Bravo 20: The Bombing of the American West (Creating the North American Landscape)
by Richard Misrach, Myriam Weisang Misrach (Contributor)
(Hardcover - December 1990)

Cult Vegas: The Weirdest! The Wildest! The Swingin'est Town on Earth
by Mike Weatherford

The Donner Party Chronicles: A Day-by-Day Account of a Doomed Wagon Train, 1846-47
by Frank Mullen
Listed under Donner Party

Death Valley to Yosemite: Frontier Mining Camps & Ghost Towns - The Men, The Women, Their Mines and Stories
by L. Burr Belden, Mary Dedecker, Wynne Benti (Photographer)

Easy Field Guide to Rock Art Symbols of the Southwest
by Rick Harris
Listed under Native American Rock Art

Fabulous Las Vegas in the 50s: Glitz, Glamour & Games
by Fred E. Basten, Charles Phoenix
Hardcover from Angel City Pr

Fifty Miles from Home: Riding the Long Circle on a Nevada Family Ranch

The Gaming Industry: Introduction and Perspectives
by Las Vegas Univ. of Nevada International Gaming Institute William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration
Hardcover from John Wiley & Sons

The Glory Days in Goldfield, Nevada
by Sally Springmeyer Zanjani

George Wingfield: Owner and Operator of Nevada (Wilbur S. Shepperson Series in History and Humanities ; No. 34)
by C. Elizabeth Raymond
(Hardcover - November 1992)

The History of the Comstock Lode: 1850-1997
by Grant H. Smith

License to Steal : Nevada's Gaming Control System in the Megaresort Age
by Jeff Burbank

Madam: Chronicles of a Nevada Cathouse
by Lora Shaner
Hardcover from Huntington Press

Madam: Inside a Nevada Brothel
by Lora Shaner
Paperback from 1stBooks Library

The Money and the Power: The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America
by Sally Denton, Roger Morris
Listed under Mafia

My First Summer in the Sierra (John Muir Library)
by John Muir
John Muir, a young Scottish immigrant, had not yet become the famed conservationist whom he liked to call "John o' the Mountains" when he first trekked into the foothills of the Sierra Nevada not long after the end of the Civil War. Having caught a glimpse of such magical places as Tuolumne Meadows and El Capitan, Muir ached to return, and in the summer of 1869 he signed on with a crew of shepherds and drove a flock of 2,500 woolly critters toward the headwaters of the Merced River.

The diary he kept while tending sheep forms the heart of My First Summer in the Sierra; published in 1911, it enticed thousands of Americans to visit the Yosemite country. The book is full of the concerns Muir would later voice as America's foremost preservationist and wildlands advocate, which would bear fruit in the creation of several national parks and monuments. And it resounds with Muir's nearly pantheistic regard for the natural world: with celebrations of the Sierra's lizards that "dart about on the hot rocks, swift as dragonflies," its mountain lions and tall trees and fierce thunderstorms and bears; with Muir's overarching awe for places that civilization had yet to tame. Though perhaps a little purple by modern standards, Muir's book continues to inspire readers to seek out such places for themselves and make them their own--and as such it stands among the enduring classics of environmental literature. --Gregory McNamee - Amazon.com
Hardcover: ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.75 x 8.25 x 5.25
Publisher: Peter Smith Pub; ; (January 1992)
ISBN: 0844665231

Native Americans of California and Nevada
by Jack D. Forbes

Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century
by Hal Rothman
Hardcover from Routledge

The Nevada Corporation Handbook

Nevada Ghost Towns and Mining Camps
by Stanley W. Paher
Hardcover from Nevada Pubns

Nevada Ghost Towns and Mining Camps: Illustrated Atlas: Southern Nevada-Death Valley
by Stanley W. Paher
Paperback from Nevada Pubns

Nevada Guide to Genealogical Records
by Diane E. Greene
Listed under Nevada Genealogy

Nevada Lost Mines and Buried Treasures
by Douglas McDonald
Paperback from Nevada Pubns

Nevada Newspaper Days : A History of Journalism in the Silver State
by Jake Highton
Book Description This book fills a gap in the history of Nevada. Ranging from the 1860s to the present, the author details, in a scholarly manner, the development of the state's newspaper industry, recounting a few familial stories and the work of some famous Nevada newspapermen. More attention is given to the scarcely-known stories of mining camp journalism, the hoaxes disseminated, the ethnic newspapers along with the coverage of ethnic-centered events, and the politics and activities of the present newspaper empires.
Hardcover: 325 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.75 x 10.50 x 7.50
Publisher: Heritage West Books; ; (December 1, 1990)
ISBN: 0962304816

Nevada's Turbulent Fifties: Decade of Political and Economic Change
by Mary Ellen Glass
Paperback from Univ of Nevada Pr
1982

Nye County Brothel Wars: A Tale of the New West
by Jeanie Kasindorf
Hardcover from Simon & Schuster
1985

Old Heart of Nevada: Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of Elko County
by Shawn Hall

Paradise Valley, Nevada: The People and Buildings of an American Place
by Howard Wight Marshall, Howard Wight Marshall
Listed under Nevada Genealogy

The Players: The Men Who Made Las Vegas
by Jack Sheehan (Editor)

Preliminary Report Concerning Explorations and Surveys Principally in Nevada and Arizona (Select Bibliographies Reprint)
by George M, Wheeler
Hardcover from Ayer Co Pub

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Preserving the Glory Days: Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of Nye County, Nevada
by Shawn Hall

Railroads of Nevada and Eastern California: The Southern Railroads
by David F. Myrick
Listed under American Railroads

The Roar and the Silence: A History of Virginia City and the Comstock Lode
by Ronald M. James

Romancing Nevada's Past : Ghost Towns and Historic Sites of Eureka, Lander, and White Pine Counties
by Shawn R. Hall
Paperback: 226 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.65 x 9.99 x 8.05
Publisher: Univ of Nevada Pr; ; (December 1993)
ISBN: 0874172284

Sierra Nevada Wildflowers
by Karen Wiese
Paperback from Falcon

Sierra Nevada Wildflowers
by Elizabeth L. Horn, Kathleen Ort
Paperback from Mountain Press Publishing Company

Sierra Flower Finder a Guide to Sierra Nevada Wildflowers
by Glenn Keator, Valerie R. Winemiller
Paperback from Nature Study Guild

Speaking Through the Aspens: Basque Tree Carvings in Nevada and California
by J. Mallea-Olaetxe
Hardcover from University of Nevada Press

Temples of Justice : County Courthouses of Nevada
by Ronald M. James

Treasure Hill: Portrait of a Silver Mining Camp
by W. Turrentine Jackson
Publisher: University of Nevada Press; (June 12, )

24/7: Living It Up and Doubling Down in the New Las Vegas
by Andres Martinez

The Secret Millionaire : Guide to Nevada Corporations

The Black Book and the Mob : The Untold Story of the Control of Nevada's Casinos

Wildflowers of the Sierra Nevada and Central Valley
by Laird R. Blackwell
Paperback from Lone Pine Publishing

Sierra Stories: True Tales of Tahoe
by Mark McLaughlin
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