A Great Basin mosaic : the cultures of rural Nevada /
A Great Basin Mosaic looks beyond the popular Reno, Lake Tahoe and Las Vegas regions of Nevada and reflects on the cultures of smaller towns. Oftentimes these other 'Nevadas' become short-changed by academic historians at the state level, resulting in a disconnect between the cultures that...
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| Language: | English |
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Reno :
University of Nevada Press,
[2017]
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| Series: | Wilbur S. Shepperson series in Nevada history.
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Table of Contents:
- Two passageways across the Basin
- Nevada Territory and early statehood, 1861-1869 : Unionville and Austin
- Railroad stations along the Humboldt Trail : Big Meadows, Winnemucca, Battle Mountain, Carlin, Elko, and Wells
- Nineteeth-century towns of the Middle Corridor : Belmont, Pahranagat, Hamilton, Pioche, Panaca, and Eureka
- The politics of conscience : silver crusade, Native American policy, and woman suffrage
- Turn of the century : economics and culture
- Government experiments in Churchill County
- Copper is king : new technology in White Pine
- A lifeline for the southeast : Clark's Railroad
- The MX Missile controversy, 1978-1981, and the thirty-five-year water war, 1980-2015
- Lovelock, Winnemucca, and Battle Mountain revisited
- New agendas for Elko County : tourists, entertainment, gold
- Changing landscapes in the twentieth century
- Spanning the distances, part one : newspapers, schools, and churches
- Spanning the distances, part two : connecting the north-center to the nation
- Appendix: Changing demographics, 1900-2010.