East of Eden, West of Zion

• Paperback | Engels | Shepperson Nevada History
• Human expectations and illusions are the backdrop of today's Nevada as a new human frontier. As an overview of Nevada society, this study deals with c... Lees meer

Temples of Justice

Ronald M James

• Hardcover | Engels | Shepperson Nevada History
• From Storey County's High Victorian Italianate-styled courthouse to Lander County's former schoolhouse, now a Neo-classical courthouse, Temples of Jus... Lees meer

Water Politics in Northern Nevada

Leah J Wilds

• Paperback | Engels | Shepperson Nevada History
• In northwestern Nevada, the waters of the Truckee, Carson, and Walker river systems are fought over by competing interests: agriculture, industry, Nat... Lees meer

After the Boom in Tombstone and Jerome, Arizona

Eric L Clements

• Paperback | Engels | Shepperson Nevada History
• Focusing on two Arizona towns that had their origins in mining bonanzas--Tombstone and Jerome--historian Eric L. Clements offers a rare study dissecti... Lees meer

George Wingfield

C Elizabeth Raymond

• Paperback | Engels | Shepperson Nevada History
• Banker, hotel owner, and political powerhouse George Wingfield (1876-1959) was one of the most significant figures in Nevada's history. He was the pri... Lees meer

The Gold Rush Letters of E. Allen Grosh and Hosea B. Grosh

• Paperback | Engels | Shepperson Nevada History
• When brothers Ethan and Hosea Grosh left Pennsylvania in 1849, they joined throngs of men from all over the world intent on finding a fortune in the C... Lees meer

Nevada

Michael S Green

• Hardcover | Engels | Shepperson Nevada History
• Nevada: A History of the Silver State has been named a CHOICE Outstanding Title. Michael S. Green, a leading Nevada historian, provides a detailed sur... Lees meer

Las Vegas

Eugene P Moehring, Michael S Green

• Paperback | Engels | Shepperson Nevada History
• The meteoric rise of Las Vegas from a remote Mormon outpost to an international entertainment center was never a sure thing. In its first decades, the... Lees meer

The Archaeology of the Donner Party

Donald L Hardesty

• Paperback | Engels | Shepperson Nevada History
• 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 s... Lees meer

The Sagebrush State, 5th Edition

Michael W Bowers

• Paperback | Engels | Shepperson Nevada History | nr. 5
• Nevada's politics are in large measure the result of its turbulent history and harsh environment. Michael W. Bowers' concise volume explains the dynam... Lees meer

John MacKay

Michael J Makley

• Paperback | Engels | Shepperson Nevada History
• From the early 1870s until his death in 1902, John Mackay was among the richest men in the world and was without a doubt the wealthiest man to emerge ... Lees meer

The Peoples of Las Vegas

• Paperback | Engels | Shepperson Nevada History
• 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... Lees meer

The Sagebrush State, 4th Ed, Volume 4

Michael W Bowers

• Paperback | Engels | Shepperson Nevada History
• Nevada's politics have been formed in large measure by its turbulent history and harsh environment. Bowers' concise volume explains the dynamics of th... Lees meer

Reno, Las Vegas, and the Strip

Eugene P Moehring

• Hardcover | Engels | Shepperson Nevada History
• Eugene P. Moehring analyzes the development of Reno and Las Vegas since 1945 with special emphasis on the years after 1970. Major factors that shaped ... Lees meer

St. Thomas, Nevada

Aaron McArthur

• Paperback | Engels | Shepperson Nevada History
• The history of St. Thomas, Nevada, the remains of which today lay under the high water mark of Lake Mead, begins in 1865 with Mormon missionaries sent... Lees meer

A History of Occupational Health and Safety

Michelle Follette Turk

• Hardcover | Engels | Shepperson Nevada History
• The United States has a long and unfortunate history of exposing employees, the public, and the environment to dangerous work. But in April 2009, the ... Lees meer

Jews in Nevada

John P Marschall

• Paperback | Engels | Shepperson Nevada History
• Jews have always been one of Nevada's most active and influential ethnic minorities. They were among the state's earliest Euro-American settlers, and ... Lees meer

A Fateful Time

Elmer R Rusco

• Hardcover | Engels | Shepperson Nevada History
• This work offers an analysis of the events leading to the creation and enactment of the 1934 Indian Regorganization Act. This act has been acknowleged... Lees meer

The Gold Rush Letters of E. Allen Grosh and Hosea B. Grosh

• Hardcover | Engels | Shepperson Nevada History
• When brothers Ethan and Hosea Grosh left Pennsylvania in 1849, they joined throngs of men from all over the world intent on finding a fortune in the C... Lees meer

Devils Will Reign

Sally Zanjani

• Paperback | Engels | Shepperson Nevada History
• Nevada entered the Union in 1864 as the thirty-sixth state, a mere two decades after John Charles Frémont and his party undertook the first Euro-Ameri... Lees meer

Nevada

Michael S Green

• Paperback | Engels | Shepperson Nevada History
• Nevada: A History of the Silver State has been named a CHOICE Outstanding Title. Michael S. Green, a leading Nevada historian, provides a detailed sur... Lees meer

Race and Homicide in Nineteenth-Century California

Clare V McKanna

• Paperback | Engels | Shepperson Nevada History
• Examines coroners' inquest reports, court case files, prison registers, and other sources to analyze patterns of homicide and the state's embryonic ju... Lees meer

The Making of Modern Nevada

Hal Rothman

• Paperback | Engels | Shepperson Nevada History
• Nevada has always been different from other states. Almost from its beginning, Nevada sanctioned behaviors considered immoral elsewhere--gambling, pri... Lees meer

Resort City in the Sunbelt

Eugene P Moehring

• Paperback | Engels | Shepperson Nevada History
• 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 MG... Lees meer