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University of Nevada Press
Language
English
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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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Kidhaven Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Publisher
Gwen Clancy Video Productions
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
The towns history began with the discovery of an abundant water supply in the 1800's and earning its name as the desert oasis, Las Vegas, Spanish for "The Meadows". Discusses the Spanish influence, mountain men, emigrants, the Mormon Mission, Hoover Dam, and Las Vegas' beginnings in gambling.
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University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
Of the many easterners who went west at the close of the nineteenth century, Tasker L. Oddie was one of the most purposeful. The twenty-seven-year-old attorney and business executive from East Orange, New Jersey, moved to Austin, Nevada, in 1898 as secretary of the Nevada Company, which had mining interests in central Nevada. There he uncovered for his employers, the Stokes family, a fraud committed by the firm's general manager. In the aftermath...
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