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[Paperback] - $22.95
Old Heart of Nevada
Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of Elko County
by Shawn Hall
Elko County, in the old heart of Nevada, is rich in historic sites, many of them hitherto uncharted and some verging on disappearing.... more

[Paperback] - $21.95
The Opium Debate and Chinese Exclusion Laws in the Nineteenth-Century American West
by Diana L. Ahmad
America’s current "war on drugs" is not the nation’s first. In the mid-nineteenth century, opium-smoking was decried as a major social and public health problem, especially in the West.... more

[Paperback] - $15.95
The Other California
The Great Central Valley in Life and Letters, Expanded Edition
by Gerald W. Haslam
This expanded edition of The Other California, originally published in 1990, contains nineteen essays (six of them new to this collection) on the landscape, literature, and life in the Great Central Valley of California.... more

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The Overland Journey from Utah to California
Wagon Travel from the City of Saints to the City of Angels
by Edward Leo Lyman
Historian Edward Leo Lyman has provided the first history of the complete Southern Route and of the people who developed and used it.... more

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The Ox-Bow Man
A Biography of Walter Van Tilburg Clark
by Jackson J. Benson
Walter Van Tilburg Clark, author of the classic novel The Ox-Bow Incident helped to change American literature by making the West and its vast, haunted landscapes a legitimate subject for serious fiction.... more

[Hardcover] - $29.95
A Passion for Gold
An Autobiography
by Ralph J. Roberts
Ralph J. Roberts is not a household name in Nevada, but it should be—it was he who discovered the Carlin Belt gold deposits that created a major mining boom in the state in the last four decades of the twentieth century.... more

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Pat McCarran
Political Boss of Nevada
by Jerome E. Edwards
Although Patrick A. McCarran represented one of the least populated states in the country, he gained a national reputation as a U.... more

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The Peoples of Las Vegas
One City, Many Faces
Edited by Jerry L. Simich, Thomas C. Wright
Las Vegas is known the world over as an oasis of entertainment in the Nevada desert, but to more than a million people of exceptionally varied origins, it is also home.... more