Author: Robert Laxalt
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393334066
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
Sagebrush and neon, shepherds and gangsters, a crossroads and a refuge, Nevada is a state that "didn't deserve to be." Through a turbulent history, Nevada has searched for an identity to call its own. How well it has succeeded is the subject of Robert Laxalt's evocative portrait of the state and its people.
Nevada: A Bicentennial History (States and the Nation)
Author: Robert Laxalt
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393348571
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
Sagebrush and neon, shepherds and gangsters, a crossroads and a refuge, Nevada is a state that "didn't deserve to be." Through a turbulent history, Nevada has searched for an identity to call its own. How well it has succeeded is the subject of Robert Laxalt's evocative portrait of the state and its people.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393348571
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
Sagebrush and neon, shepherds and gangsters, a crossroads and a refuge, Nevada is a state that "didn't deserve to be." Through a turbulent history, Nevada has searched for an identity to call its own. How well it has succeeded is the subject of Robert Laxalt's evocative portrait of the state and its people.
Nevada: A Bicentennial History
Author: Robert Laxalt
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393334066
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
Sagebrush and neon, shepherds and gangsters, a crossroads and a refuge, Nevada is a state that "didn't deserve to be." Through a turbulent history, Nevada has searched for an identity to call its own. How well it has succeeded is the subject of Robert Laxalt's evocative portrait of the state and its people.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393334066
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
Sagebrush and neon, shepherds and gangsters, a crossroads and a refuge, Nevada is a state that "didn't deserve to be." Through a turbulent history, Nevada has searched for an identity to call its own. How well it has succeeded is the subject of Robert Laxalt's evocative portrait of the state and its people.
Nevada
A History of the State of Nevada
Nevada
Author: Krista McLuskey
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781510559783
Category : Nevada
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"Each book in the Our American States series uses exciting visuals and informative text to explore the history, landscape, and identity of a state, territory, or district of the United States"--
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781510559783
Category : Nevada
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"Each book in the Our American States series uses exciting visuals and informative text to explore the history, landscape, and identity of a state, territory, or district of the United States"--
The Sagebrush State
Author: Michael Wayne Bowers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The Sagebrush State is thoroughly documented, providing useful figures and tables, and includes the complete text of the state constitution for quick reference. This volume serves as a text for the Nevada Constitution component required for graduation from all Nevada colleges and universities.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The Sagebrush State is thoroughly documented, providing useful figures and tables, and includes the complete text of the state constitution for quick reference. This volume serves as a text for the Nevada Constitution component required for graduation from all Nevada colleges and universities.
It Happened In Nevada
Author: Elizabeth Gibson
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0762766271
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
Written in a lively, easy-to-read style, this book features approximately 30 stories written for history buffs of all ages.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0762766271
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
Written in a lively, easy-to-read style, this book features approximately 30 stories written for history buffs of all ages.
Montana: A Bicentennial History (States and the Nation)
Author: Clark C. Spence
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393348563
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
At three times the size of Pennsylvania, with a county bigger than the whole state of Connecticut, Montana is a large place, once described as "bounded on the west by the Japan current, on the north by the aurora borealis, on the south by Price's Army, and on the east by the Day of Judgement." Montana has a rich story, in which different people have sought both great fortune and modest prosperity. How well they succeeded is part of the story told in this engaging history.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393348563
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
At three times the size of Pennsylvania, with a county bigger than the whole state of Connecticut, Montana is a large place, once described as "bounded on the west by the Japan current, on the north by the aurora borealis, on the south by Price's Army, and on the east by the Day of Judgement." Montana has a rich story, in which different people have sought both great fortune and modest prosperity. How well they succeeded is part of the story told in this engaging history.
Political History of Nevada, 1996
State and National Boundaries of the United States
Author: Gary Alden Smith
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476604347
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
With the exception of oceans, boundaries are artificial, man-made divisions of geography that many times make little sense and sometimes no sense at all. For example, why does the northern boundary of Minnesota protrude into Canada? Why does West Virginia have two panhandles? Why do Pennsylvania and Delaware have a common boundary that is a circle segment? Why do the boundaries of Colorado, Wyoming and Utah consist entirely of lines of latitude and longitude? The answers to these questions and many more can be found in this book, which explains why and how state boundaries are placed where they are. It begins with an introduction that provides general information about boundary placement, colonial boundaries, formation of territories, surveying and Supreme Court rulings. The 50 states are divided into ten regions (New England, Mid-Atlantic, Upper South, Lower South, Great Lakes, North Central, South Central, Rocky Mountain, West, and Noncontiguous). The text for each state begins with an overview of that state's boundaries that becomes more specific as its different boundaries are considered. The appendices include interesting facts about each state, citizen and state nicknames, and dates territories were created and states entered the Union. Richly illustrated with 138 maps.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476604347
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
With the exception of oceans, boundaries are artificial, man-made divisions of geography that many times make little sense and sometimes no sense at all. For example, why does the northern boundary of Minnesota protrude into Canada? Why does West Virginia have two panhandles? Why do Pennsylvania and Delaware have a common boundary that is a circle segment? Why do the boundaries of Colorado, Wyoming and Utah consist entirely of lines of latitude and longitude? The answers to these questions and many more can be found in this book, which explains why and how state boundaries are placed where they are. It begins with an introduction that provides general information about boundary placement, colonial boundaries, formation of territories, surveying and Supreme Court rulings. The 50 states are divided into ten regions (New England, Mid-Atlantic, Upper South, Lower South, Great Lakes, North Central, South Central, Rocky Mountain, West, and Noncontiguous). The text for each state begins with an overview of that state's boundaries that becomes more specific as its different boundaries are considered. The appendices include interesting facts about each state, citizen and state nicknames, and dates territories were created and states entered the Union. Richly illustrated with 138 maps.