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Author : Grace Dangberg
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (865 download)
Download or read book Carson Valley written by Grace Dangberg and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Grace Dangberg
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
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Download or read book Carson Valley; Historical Sketches of Nevada's First Settlement written by Grace Dangberg and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical sketches of Nevada's first settlement.
Author : Sam Post Davis
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 762 pages
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Download or read book The History of Nevada written by Sam Post Davis and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Moreno
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
ISBN 13 : 0874178541
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (741 download)
Download or read book A Short History of Carson City written by Richard Moreno and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2011-03-28 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nevada’s capital city is today a charming, modern community, with an unusually eventful past. A Short History of Carson City traces its history from its origin as a mid-nineteenth-century trading post to its rise as the political center of Nevada. Here are the hard-working citizens and colorful characters, the political and business decisions, and the evolving economy that helped shape it. This is the first comprehensive historical account of a thoroughly modern state capital with its roots deep in Nevada’s turbulent past.
Author : Gary A. Horton
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Carson River Chronology written by Gary A. Horton and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sally Zanjani
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
ISBN 13 : 0874176662
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (741 download)
Download or read book Devils Will Reign written by Sally Zanjani and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2007-08-01 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nevada entered the Union in 1864 as the thirty-sixth state, a mere two decades after John Charles Frémont and his party undertook the first Euro-American exploration of the Great Basin. However, the intervening years were exceptionally eventful—gold was discovered in California in 1848; the debate over slavery in the territories made the Far West a significant topic of congressional concern; and the Mormon establishment in Utah stimulated national suspicion of the sect’s ambitions and policies—giving this remote, sparsely populated region on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada an importance that it probably would not have had in less turbulent times. In 1849, more than 22,000 people traveled the emigrant trails across the Great Basin, and soon Mormons from Utah set up a trading station in the Carson Valley to reap profit from the emigrant trade and anchor the western periphery of what their leader, Brigham Young, envisioned as a Mormon inland empire. Miners in Gold Canyon (just south of what is now Virginia City) and settlers in the Carson Valley were pushing the Native Americans out of their ancient homelands and vying with one another for control of choice land and rudimentary local governments. In Devils Will Reign, acclaimed historian Sally Zanjani recounts the momentous early history of the territory that is now known as Nevada, weaving the colorful saga of this rowdy frontier into the larger story of national political crises and economic ambitions, rapid development in California, and religious antipathy toward the polygamous Mormons. Here are intrepid frontiersmen, beleaguered Native Americans, zealous Mormons, and colorful characters and farmers, including a group of African Americans who successfully settled in the Carson Valley. Zanjani covers the lives of the pioneers, as well as the development and impact of the Comstock silver bonanza and the tenuous, halting efforts of the region’s residents to create first a territorial, then a state government. Seldom has the process of western settlement and government-making been described with such detail and insight.
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Total Pages : 14 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (186 download)
Download or read book Historical Sketch of Nevada written by and published by . This book was released on 186? with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter B. Mires
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439664455
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Lost Carson City written by Peter B. Mires and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-25 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carson City has the distinction of being one of the least populated state capitals in the nation, but its contributions to Nevada's history are anything but diminutive. Set against the backdrop of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, it's a quintessential Wild West town. The gold and silver riches of the nearby Comstock Lode left a legacy that includes the Carson City Mint, one of only nine mints ever to exist in the United States, and the Virginia & Truckee Railroad, which still snakes through the hills. Residents once flocked to the Carson Opera House to take in a show and to the local racetrack to bet on the horses. Author Peter B. Mires explores the city's legacies, brick by locally quarried sandstone brick.
Author : Diane E. Greene
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN 13 : 9780806348162
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Nevada Guide to Genealogical Records written by Diane E. Greene and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1998 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book pulls together records from a variety of sources, including information from county court houses, Nevada internet sites, and various lists..."--Page iv.
Author : Russell R. Elliott
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Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book History of Nevada written by Russell R. Elliott and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 338 pages
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Download or read book First Directory of Nevada Territory written by and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Effie Mona Mack
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Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Nevada written by Effie Mona Mack and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Not only is this book one of the best and most accurate histories of Nevada ever published, it is a valuable contribution to the hisotry of the entire Far West ... a landmark study stressing the formative years. Indispensible to any Nevada collection"--Stanley Paher, Nevada: an annotated bibliography
Author : Frieda Cordes Godecke
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ISBN 13 : 9780615353319
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (533 download)
Download or read book Frieda's Files written by Frieda Cordes Godecke and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of stories originally published as a series of articles in the Record-Courier, Gardnerville, Nevada.
Author : Matthew S. Makley
Publisher : UMass + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1613765878
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (137 download)
Download or read book The Small Shall Be Strong written by Matthew S. Makley and published by UMass + ORM. This book was released on 2018-07-20 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For thousands of years the Washoe people have lived in the shadows of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. At the center of their lands sits beautiful Lake Tahoe, a name derived from the Washoe word Da ow a ga. Perhaps because the Washoe population has always been small or because it has been more peaceful than other tribal communities, its history has never been published. In The Small Shall Be Strong, Matthew S. Makley demonstrates that, in spite of this lack of scholarly attention, Washoe history is replete with broad significance. The Washoes, for example, gained culturally important lands through the 1887 Dawes Act. And during the 1990s, the tribe sought to ban climbing on one of its most sacred sites, Cave Rock, a singular instance of Native sacred concerns leading to restrictions. The Small Shall Be Strong illustrates a history and raises a broad question: How might greater scholarly attention to the numerous lesser-studied tribes in the United States compel a rethinking of larger historical narratives?
Author : Nevada Historical Society
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Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Nevada Historical Society Quarterly written by Nevada Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Shirley Ann Wilson Moore
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806156856
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Sweet Freedom's Plains written by Shirley Ann Wilson Moore and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The westward migration of nearly half a million Americans in the mid-nineteenth century looms large in U.S. history. Classic images of rugged Euro-Americans traversing the plains in their prairie schooners still stir the popular imagination. But this traditional narrative, no matter how alluring, falls short of the actual—and far more complex—reality of the overland trails. Among the diverse peoples who converged on the western frontier were African American pioneers—men, women, and children. Whether enslaved or free, they too were involved in this transformative movement. Sweet Freedom’s Plains is a powerful retelling of the migration story from their perspective. Tracing the journeys of black overlanders who traveled the Mormon, California, Oregon, and other trails, Shirley Ann Wilson Moore describes in vivid detail what they left behind, what they encountered along the way, and what they expected to find in their new, western homes. She argues that African Americans understood advancement and prosperity in ways unique to their situation as an enslaved and racially persecuted people, even as they shared many of the same hopes and dreams held by their white contemporaries. For African Americans, the journey westward marked the beginning of liberation and transformation. At the same time, black emigrants’ aspirations often came into sharp conflict with real-world conditions in the West. Although many scholars have focused on African Americans who settled in the urban West, their early trailblazing voyages into the Oregon Country, Utah Territory, New Mexico Territory, and California deserve greater attention. Having combed censuses, maps, government documents, and white overlanders’ diaries, along with the few accounts written by black overlanders or passed down orally to their living descendants, Moore gives voice to the countless, mostly anonymous black men and women who trekked the plains and mountains. Sweet Freedom’s Plains places African American overlanders where they belong—at the center of the western migration narrative. Their experiences and perspectives enhance our understanding of this formative period in American history.
Author : Michael Hittman
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
ISBN 13 : 0874179106
Total Pages : 670 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (741 download)
Download or read book Great Basin Indians written by Michael Hittman and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2013-06-15 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Native American inhabitants of North America’s Great Basin have a long, eventful history and rich cultures. Great Basin Indians: An Encyclopedic History covers all aspects of their world. The book is organized in an encyclopedic format to allow full discussion of many diverse topics, including geography, religion, significant individuals, the impact of Euro-American settlement, wars, tribes and intertribal relations, reservations, federal policies regarding Native Americans, scholarly theories regarding their prehistory, and others. Author Michael Hittman employs a vast range of archival and secondary sources as well as interviews, and he addresses the fruits of such recent methodologies as DNA analysis and gender studies that offer new insights into the lives and history of these enduring inhabitants of one of North America’s most challenging environments. Great Basin Indians is an essential resource for any reader interested in the Native peoples of the American West and in western history in general.
