Author: Don AshbaughPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Nevada's Turbulent Yesterday
Author: Don AshbaughPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
NEVADAS TURBULENT YESTERDAY.
Author: Don AshbaughPublisher:
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Category : Extinct cities
Languages : en
Pages :
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Haunted Nevada
Author: Janice OberdingPublisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 081175295X
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
The Silver State's most bizarre and creepy stories of paranormal activity.
Proceedings--shrublands under fire
Author: Paradise Valley, Nevada
Author: Howard W. MarshallPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816513109
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Stonemasons from the Alpine valleys of northwestern Italy shaped the architectural face of Paradise Valley in northern Nevada in the 1860s and 1870s. Drawing on their own distinctive skills, they constructed the constellation of granite and sandstone buildings that are the region's most visible landmarks. Marshall's analysis of this architectural legacy, illustrated with 229 photographs and 70 line drawings, is not only a valuable resource for scholars in vernacular architecture, folklore, and cultural geography, but also a verbal and visual treat for all who love the American West.
Deadly Dozen
Author: Robert K. DeArmentPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806184728
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 613
Book Description
For every Wild Bill Hickok or Billy the Kid, there was another western gunfighter just as deadly but not as well known. Robert K. DeArment has earned a reputation as the premier researcher of unknown gunfighters, and here he offers twelve more portraits of men who weren’t glorified in legend but were just as notorious in their day. Those who think they already know all about Old West gunfighters will be amazed at this new collection. Here are men like Porter Stockton, the Texas terror who bragged that he had killed eighteen men, and Jim Levy, who killed a man for disparaging his Irish blood, though he was also the only known Jewish gunfighter. These stories span eight decades, from the gold rushes of the 1850s to the 1920s. Telling of gunmen such as Jim Masterson, the brother of Bat Masterson, or the real Whispering Smith—the man behind the fictionalized persona—whose career spanned four decades, DeArment conscientiously separates fact from fiction to reconstruct lives all the more amazing for having remained unknown for so long. The product of iron-clad research, this newest Deadly Dozen delivers the goods for gunfighter buffs in search of something different. Together the Deadly Dozen volumes constitute a Who’s Who of western outlaws and prove that there’s more to the Wild West than Jesse James.
In Pursuit of Gold
Author: Sue Fawn ChungPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252093348
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Both a history of an overlooked community and a well-rounded reassessment of prevailing assumptions about Chinese miners in the American West, In Pursuit of Gold brings to life in rich detail the world of turn-of-the-century mining towns in the Northwest. Sue Fawn Chung meticulously recreates the lives of Chinese immigrants, miners, merchants, and others who populated these towns and interacted amicably with their white and Native American neighbors, defying the common perception of nineteenth-century Chinese communities as insular enclaves subject to increasing prejudice and violence. While most research has focused on Chinese miners in California, this book is the first extensive study of Chinese experiences in the towns of John Day in Oregon and Tuscarora, Island Mountain, and Gold Creek in Nevada. Chung illustrates the relationships between miners and merchants within the communities and in the larger context of immigration, arguing that the leaders of the Chinese and non-Chinese communities worked together to create economic interdependence and to short-circuit many of the hostilities and tensions that plagued other mining towns. Peppered with fascinating details about these communities from the intricacies of Chinese gambling games to the techniques of hydraulic mining, In Pursuit of Gold draws on a wealth of historical materials, including immigration records, census manuscripts, legal documents, newspapers, memoirs, and manuscript collections. Chung supplements this historical research with invaluable first-hand observations of artifacts that she experienced in archaeological digs and restoration efforts at several of the sites of the former booming mining towns. In clear, analytical prose, Chung expertly characterizes the movement of Chinese miners into Oregon and Nevada, the heyday of their mining efforts in the region, and the decline of the communities due to changes in the mining industry. Highlighting the positive experiences and friendships many of the immigrants had in these relatively isolated mining communities, In Pursuit of Gold also suggests comparisons with the Chinese diaspora in other locations such as British Columbia and South Africa.
Water and Related Land Resources, Humboldt River Basin, Nevada
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Category : Humboldt River Watershed (Nev.)
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
The Desert Lake
Author: Sessions S. WheelerPublisher: Caxton Press
ISBN: 9780870041396
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press The story of Pyramid Lake contains more than 70 excellent illustrations. Geology, archeology, history, biology, recreation, past, present and future are accurately and ably discussed and illustrated by a man who thoroughly knows the subject.
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