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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hulse, James W. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Reno : University of Nevada Press, [2017]
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.