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University of Nevada Press
Language
English
Description
Twenty Miles From a Match, originally published in 1978, is the autobiography of an indomitable woman and her family's twenty years of adventures and misadventures in a desert wilderness. In 1908, a venturesome woman named Sarah Olds packed up her brood and went homesteading in the deserts north of Reno, west of Sutcliffe on Pyramid Lake. Her ailing husband said, welcoming her to their new home, "There, old lady. There's your home, and it's...
2) Nevada
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Series
Publisher
Kidhaven Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Series
Literature of the American West volume 4
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
The author interweaves details about the life of early twentieth-century buckaroo and rawhide braider Henry Elijah (Lige) Langston with her own story as an outsider who found a home in the Great Basin of the American West.
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Publisher
Black Rock Press, University of Nevada, Reno
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Mary Stoddard Doten was an articulate daughter of the late Victorian era, transplanted from New England to the Nevada mining frontier in 1870. Mary S., as she was widely known a century ago, lived in Gold Hill for several years, married and had a family. After the Comstock boom ended and her marriage deteriorated, she moved to Reno, where she became a respected educator, lecturer, and advocate of women's rights. A longtime teacher of English literature...
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Publisher
University of Nevada Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"When readers see the names Mark Twain and Dan De Quille, fake news may not be the first thing that comes to mind. But these legendary journalists were some of the original, and most prolific, fake news writers in the early years of Nevada’s history. Frontier Fake News puts a spotlight on the hoaxes, feuds, pranks, outright lies, witty writing, and other literary devices utilized by a number of the Silver State’s frontier newsmen from the mid-nineteenth...
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