Shepperson Nevada History – serie
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Uncovering Nevada's Past
A Primary Source History of the Silver State
Av University of Nevada Press, John B. Reid m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
280 kr
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In the words of literary luminaries, newspaper articles, public documents, personal letters, political speeches and personal accounts this is an attempt to define Nevada's colorful and complex development. It describes life in a mining boomtown, racial segregation in Las Vegas, political careers …
Silver State
Nevada's Heritage Reinterpreted
Häftad, 2004
251 kr
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Nevada has changed dramatically over the past quarter century, and in this third edition of The Silver State, renowned historian James W. Hulse recounts the major events - historical, political, and social - that have shaped our state. Hulse's cohesive and readable approach offers students and …
Archaeology of the Donner Party
Häftad, 2005
208 kr
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The tragic saga of the Donner Party has inspired both legend and scholarship ever since the survivors were rescued from the High Sierra snows in the spring of 1847. When archaeologist Donald L. Hardesty and four colleagues - a historian and three other archaeologists - turned their collective …
Nevada's Historic Buildings
A Cultural Legacy
Av Ronald James, Elizabeth Safford Harvey
Häftad, 2009
280 kr
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In 1991, Nevada's Commission for Cultural Affairs was created to oversee the preservation of the state's historic buildings and the conversion of the best of them for use as cultural centres. Working closely with local groups and drawing on both public and private resources, this program has …
St. Thomas, Nevada
A History Uncovered
Häftad, 2013
280 kr
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The history of St. Thomas, Nevada, the remains of which today lie under the high-water mark of Lake Mead, begins in 1865 with Mormon missionaries sent by Brigham Young to the Moapa Valley to grow cotton. In 1871 the boundary of Utah Territory was shifted east by one degree longitude, and the town …
After the Boom in Tombstone and Jerome, Arizona
Decline in Western Resource Towns
Häftad, 2014
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Focusing on two Arizona towns that had their origins in mining bonanzas, Tombstone and Jerome, Eric L. Clements offers a rare study dissecting the process of bust itself--the reasons and manners in which these towns declined as the booms ended. Tombstone was the site of one of the great silver …
Changing the Game
Women at Work in Las Vegas, 1940-1990
Häftad, 2014
311 kr
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The growth of Las Vegas that began in the 1940s brought an influx of both women and men looking to work in the expanding hotel and casino industries. In fact, for the next fifty years the proportion of women in the labour force was greater in Las Vegas than the United States as a whole. Joanne L. …
Great Basin Mosaic
The Cultures of Rural Nevada
Häftad, 2017
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The Nevada of lesser-known cities, towns, and outposts deserve their separate chronicles, and here Hulse fills a wide gap. He contributes in a text rich with memories tramping through rural Nevada as a child, then as a journalist seeking news and gossip, then later as an academic historian and a …
East of Eden, West of Zion
Essays on Nevada
Av University of Nevada Press, Wilbur S. Shepperson
Häftad, 1989
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A collection of essays in which a dozen historians and novelists present their impressions and concerns about ""end of the century Nevada."" Human expectations and illusions are seen as a backdrop for today's Nevada as a new human frontier. As an overview of Nevada society, this study deals with …
Temples of Justice
County Courthouses of Nevada
Inbunden, 1994
409 kr
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From Storey County's High Victorian Italianate-styled courthouse to Lander County's former schoolhouse, now a Neo-classical courthouse, Temples of Justice provides an architectural history of the courthouses of Nevada. In Nevada's first published architectural history, Temples of Justice treats the …
Comstock Women
Making of a Mining Community
Av University of Nevada Press, Ronald M. James m. fl.
Häftad, 1997
280 kr
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When it comes to Nevada history, men get most of the ink. Comstock Women is a collection of 14 historical studies that helps to rectify that reality. The authors of these essays, who include some of Nevada’s most prominent historians, demographers, and archaeologists, explore such topics as women …
Disease and Medical Care in the Mountain West
Essays on Region, History and Practice
Av University of Nevada Press, Martha L. Hildreth m. fl.
Inbunden, 1998
467 kr
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This collection of eight essays examines the health, disease, and medical care of the American West—an area flanked by the Rocky Mountains, Sierra Nevada, and Cascade Mountains. Topics include Mormons and the Thomsonian Movement in the nineteenth century, the silicosis epidemic in hardrock mining, …
Resort City in the Sunbelt
Las Vegas, 1930-2000
Häftad, 2000
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Resort City in the Sunbelt is a non-sensationalistic, scholarly account of Las Vegas from the building of the Hoover Dam to the construction of the MGM Grand Hotel. Historian Eugene Moehring provides a balanced view of the city’s urban development. Although a unique city in many ways, Las Vegas has …
Irrational Triumph
Cultural Despair, Military Nationalism and Ideological Origins of Franco's Spain
Inbunden, 2001
524 kr
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A nationalist vision, strongly rooted in Spanish Catholicism and military culture, was one of the most powerful ideological tools of the Franco regime until its demise in 1975. Although nationalist movements in Spain's Basque and Catalan provinces have been closely studied, hitherto little …
Calaveras Gold
The Impact of Mining on a Mother Lode County
Inbunden, 2003
467 kr
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Most histories of the California Mother Lode have focused on the mines around the American and Yuba Rivers. However, the ""Southern Mines"" - those centered around Calaveras County in the central Sierra - were also of importance in the development of California's mineral wealth. Calaveras Gold …
Academic Freedom Imperiled
The McCarthy Era at the University of Nevada
Häftad, 2004
337 kr
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The ""Red scare"" of the 1950s created a national crisis that challenged concepts of loyalty and freedom of speech in every corner of American society. The crisis was especially problematic in American universities where traditions of academic freedom found themselves at odds with political issues …
Las Vegas
A Centennial History
Häftad, 2005
251 kr
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Since Las Vegas was founded on May 15, 1905, when the Union Pacific auctioned off land around its new railroad shops, the city has grown from a ramshackle village to a sprawling metropolitan area of well over a million people. Such phenomenal growth was never a sure thing - in its first decades, …
Peoples of Las Vegas
One City, Many Faces
Av University of Nevada Press, Jerry L. Simich m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
327 kr
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Las Vegas is known the world over as an oasis of entertainment in the Nevada desert, but to more than a million people of exceptionally varied origins, it is also home. Yet this city is rarely mentioned in studies of ethnicity or immigration, and the rich diversity of its population is largely …
River and the Railroad
An Archaeological History of Reno
Av Mary Ringhoff, Edward J. Stoner
Inbunden, 2011
409 kr
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When the City of Reno decided at the beginning of this century to create a trench to lower the railroad tracks that ran through its center, archaeologists associated with the ReTRAC (Reno Transportation Rail Access Corridor) project had a unique opportunity to explore the evidence of thousands of …
Main Event
Boxing in Nevada from the Mining Camps to the Las Vegas Strip
Inbunden, 2014
362 kr
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As the twentieth century dawned, bare-knuckle prizefighting was transforming into the popular sport of boxing, yet simultaneously it was banned as immoral in many locales. Nevada was the first state to legalise it, in 1897, solely to stage the Corbett-Fitzsimmons world heavyweight championship in …
George Wingfield
Owner and Operator of Nevada
Häftad, 2013
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Banker, hotel owner, and political powerhouse George Wingfield (1876-1959) was one of the most significant figures in Nevada’s history. He was the prime force behind the start-up of its tourism and gambling industries. Raymond’s biography details every step of his remarkable climb to power, his …
Nevada
A History of the Silver State
Inbunden, 2015
524 kr
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Michael S. Green, a leading Nevada historian, provides a detailed survey of the Silver State’s past, from the arrival of the early European explorers, to the predominance of mining in the 1800s, to the rise of world-class tourism in the twentieth century, and to more recent attempts to diversify …
Senator Howard Cannon of Nevada
A Biography
Häftad, 2015
350 kr
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Howard Cannon, who represented Nevada in the U.S. Senate from 1958 to 1982, was one of its most productive and influential members. And because he was a modest man, more comfortable with hard work than self-aggrandizement, he was also one of the most underappreciated senators. Nonetheless, Cannon’s …
