United States History - Western, Plains & Rocky Mountain Region

History of Nevada-revised

Name: History of Nevada-revised
Author: Elliott
ISBN: 9780803218116

by Elliott

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Overview

This updated edition of History of Nevada is still the most comprehensive one-volume economic, political, and social history of a state that was once thought of as "a bridge to somewhere else." It will be welcomed by students and general readers.

About the Author, Elliott

Russell R. Elliott is the author of Nevada's Twentieth-Century Mining Boom, and William D. Rowley is the author of U.S. Forest Service Grazing and Rangelands: A History. Elliott is a professor emeritus of history and Rowley a professor of history at the University of Nevada-Reno.

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Editorials

American West

"This is an immensely absorbing book about a ruggedly beautiful and wholly intriguing state."—American West

Nevada Historical Society Quarterly - Richard C. Lillard

"The appearance of History of Nevada is a major event in Nevada historiography."—Richard C. Lillard, Nevada Historical Society Quarterly

Pacific Historian

"Well-written, extensively documented and carefully indexed, [this work] is a valuable contribution for the study of a state too often mentioned only for gold and silver rushes, atomic bomb testing, or the opulent honky tonk of Las Vegas and its ilk."—Pacific Historian