Synopses & Reviews
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.
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"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 Nevada Historical Society Quarterly
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"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
(Pacific Historian)
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"This is an immensely absorbing book about a ruggedly beautiful and wholly intriguing state."—American West American West
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"The appearance of History of Nevada is a major event in Nevada historiography."—Richard C. Lillard, Nevada Historical Society Quarterly Richard C. Lillard
About the Author
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.