Virginia City and the Big Bonanza
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Regular price $7.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Abandoned Nevada
9781634992312
Regular price $24.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Almost a century before Las Vegas became Nevada's glittering jewel in the desert, the state was at the center of a history-making mining stampede: first silver and then gold, two of the Earth's most sought-after precious metals. Towns and cities were established almost overnight and abandoned at lightning speed once the riches were exhausted. Miners and residents moved from one gold strike to the next, settling and then unsettling the state; some towns survived and remain as semi-inhabited time capsules of another era, while others have crumbled back into the desert.
Nevada's vast expanses of desert are home to hundreds of ghost towns, both desolate and engaging. Abandoned Nevada: All That Glittered, is a photographic exploration of well-known locations such as iconic Rhyolite with its towering ruins of the Cook Bank building, as well as the not-so-famous and more hidden towns such as Blair. All ghost towns invite us to visit, however briefly, another time. They are precious reminders of the grit and determination--and in many cases, greed--that drove the settlement of the Southwest. How much of them will remain 100 years from now? This question bears contemplation and validates the importance of visually documenting their tenuous status.
Murders, Mysteries, and Misdemeanors of Las Vegas
9781634992510
Regular price $23.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Wicked Virginia City
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Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Lost Restaurants of Henderson, Nevada
9781467139373
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Las Vegas:
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Regular price $24.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%A Nevada Life
9781634993098
Regular price $26.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%A Nevada Life is the biography of artist Richard Guy Walton, Nevada's "Grand Old Man" of abstract art. Less well known is that Walton the gifted painter was also a prolific author of nonfiction and autobiographical novels. Born in San Francisco when there were still horses in the streets, and raised in the Central Valley, in 1929 at age fifteen he "entered Reno," as he related in his first novel, "got off the train, and was never quite the same." This eccentric and brilliant man was shaped by and helped shape Nevada's cultural history during Reno's heyday and Virginia City's epoch as a bohemian mecca.
A Nevada Life surveys Walton's artworks and writings as it follows the life of this colorful original. The narrative reveals new angles on such icons of Reno's past as Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Robert Caples, Robert Laxalt and the daughters of Judge George Bartlett. Through Walton's first marriage the reader hears the intimate story of a Basque institution, the Etcheberrys' Santa Fe Hotel, and experiences life in a Basque sheep camp. Walton's sojourns in Hollywood bring in composer Bernard Herrmann, writer Norman Corwin, director Alfred Hitchcock and more.
Walton died in 2005 at ninety-one.
Wise Animal Handbook Nevada, The
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Regular price $16.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%The Nevada Wise Animal Handbook offers laugh-out-loud animal kingdom advice for kids of every age! Engaging animal photos entertain while charming read-aloud rhymes help jump-start conversations about practical life solutions.
The Read Together/Do Together? experience continues with pull out coloring pages in the back of the book featuring fun facts about special Silver State animals including the desert tortoise and desert bighorn sheep.
Enjoy the opportunity to share your own practical wisdom with your favorite little one as you read-aloud... and laugh-aloud....again and again.