History of Nevada

Russell R. Elliott is the author of Nevada's Twentieth-Century Mining Boom, and William D. Rowley is the author of U.S. Forest Service Grazing and Rangelands: A History. Elliott is a professor emeritus of history and Rowley a professor of history at the University of Nevada-Reno.

""This is an immensely absorbing book about a ruggedly beautiful and wholly intriguing state.""—American West|""The appearance of History of Nevada is a major event in Nevada historiography.""—Richard C. Lillard, Nevada Historical Society Quarterly|""Well-written, extensively documented and carefully indexed, [this work] is a valuable contribution for the study of a state too often mentioned only for gold and silver rushes, atomic bomb testing, or the opulent honky tonk of Las Vegas and its ilk.""—Pacific Historian