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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.
Author
Series
Literature of the American West volume 4
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
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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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Author
Series
Old West series volume 1
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Rhine Fontaine is building the successful life he's always dreamed of--one that depends upon him passing for White. But for the first time in years, he wishes he could step out from behind the facade. The reason: Eddy Carmichael, the young woman he rescued in the desert. Outspoken, defiant, and beautiful, Eddy tempts Rhine in ways that could cost him everything ... and the price seems worth paying. Eddy owes her life to Rhine, but she won't risk her...
Author
Series
Golgotha novels volume 2
Publisher
Tor Books, St Martins Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
"R. S. Belcher's debut novel, The Six-Gun Tarot, was enthusiastically greeted by critics and readers, who praised its wildly inventive mixture of dark fantasy, steampunk, and the Wild West. Now Belcher returns to Golgotha, Nevada, a bustling frontier town that hides more than its fair share of unnatural secrets. 1870. A haven for the blessed and the damned, including a fallen angel, a mad scientist, a pirate queen, and a deputy who is kin to coyotes,...
Author
Publisher
Black Rock Press, University of Nevada, Reno
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
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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...
Author
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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