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Nevada : a history of the Silver State /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Green, Michael S. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Reno : University of Nevada Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Nevada > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Understanding the place
  • Before Euro-American settlement
  • Explorers, emigrants, and expansion
  • Building up to a crisis
  • The Civil War and Nevada
  • The nineteenth-century mining boom
  • Boom, bust, and reform
  • A new century, a new boom
  • Making progress
  • From Roaring Twenties to Depression and change
  • The federal landscape, 1933-1945
  • The postwar boom, 1946-1958
  • Reshaping Nevada, 1958-1970
  • Conservative Nevada, changing nevada, 1971-89
  • A troubled boom, 1989-2001
  • Nevada in the twenty-first century.