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Author : Raymond M. Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781883301156
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Untold Tales of Nevada written by Raymond M. Smith and published by . This book was released on 1997-11-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Raymond M. Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781883301163
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Untold Tales of Early Nevada written by Raymond M. Smith and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Raymond M. Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781883301088
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Untold Tales of Carson, Eagle and Smith Valleys, Nevada written by Raymond M. Smith and published by . This book was released on 1994-10-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Adams Filcher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Untold Tales of California written by Joseph Adams Filcher and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True tales of miners, encounters with wild animals, the justice system of the time, hold-ups, stories about teamsters, Hiram Hawkins, Sam Ashton, etc. ... all told by those individuals involved.
Author : John Romero
Publisher : Abbott Press
ISBN 13 : 1458203859
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (582 download)
Download or read book Las Vegas, the Untold Stories written by John Romero and published by Abbott Press. This book was released on 2012-08-14 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Youre about to enter a city that has no equal. It was built by extraordinary people with imaginative minds. Did they drink? Not sure, but why else would they build it in a Nevada desert? Some say you can go anywhere in the world and discover that people not only know about Las Vegas--theyd give anything to get there. True. As soon as I graduated from college I took an all-night bus to reach a city Id heard of, but never seen. I stayed 30 years. Damn good years, too. And the mystique of the entertainers and the film stars and the elaborate restaurants and 24-hour-a-day casinos never wore off. I spent 20 of my years at the Sahara, on the Strip, got inside the gambling business in the 60s and loved it. Helped it, too, with my writing and my inventions. The Mob was still around in those days. They were the first venture capitalists and owned a piece of every casino in town. Did that stop anyone from having a good time? Of course not. Gradually the Mob faded away--which is what happens when an FBI office with 15 agents sets up shop in town. But the gaiety didnt stop for a second, even when corporations realized they were the big guys now. Our Sahara entertainment director stunned us in 1964 when he made a deal with The Beatles to play two shows. I met the boys after dark at a small Las Vegas airport, rode with them to the Sahara and helped get them to their suite before teen age girls tore their clothes off. So take a chance, have a seat and enjoy that drink in front of you. Its time to start the show. --John Romero
Author : Richard Moreno
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493039830
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Nevada Myths and Legends written by Richard Moreno and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-09-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the mystery of a U.S. Senator's death (was he kept on ice until after the election?) to a haunting of the Governor's mansion, this selection of fourteen stories from Nevada's past explores some of the Silver State's most compelling mysteries and debunks some of its most famous myths.
Author : Richard Moreno
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1461747279
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (617 download)
Download or read book Mysteries and Legends of Nevada written by Richard Moreno and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-01-06 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the mystery of a U.S. Senator’s death (was he kept on ice until after the election?) to a haunting of the Governor’s mansion, this selection of fourteen stories from Nevada’s past explores some of the Silver State’s most compelling mysteries and debunks some of its most famous myths.
Author : Janice Oberding
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 081175295X
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Haunted Nevada written by Janice Oberding and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2013-08-11 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Silver State's most bizarre and creepy stories of paranormal activity.
Author : Norm Nielson
Publisher : Tales of Nevada
ISBN 13 : 9780962502019
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Tales of Nevada written by Norm Nielson and published by Tales of Nevada. This book was released on 1990-10-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John David Ellingsen
Publisher : Sweetgrass Books
ISBN 13 : 9781591520900
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Witness to History written by John David Ellingsen and published by Sweetgrass Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witness to History, by Virginia City Curator Emeritus John D. Ellingsen, is a delightful and often moving book, unusual among writings on the Gold Rush era of Montana and the West. It is part history, part memoir, and part passionate essay about the importance of historic preservation. The book details the origins of Virginia City and Nevada City their rough beginnings and their glory days. It also offers a unique perspective on the restoration and saving of Virginia and Nevada Cities by a man who has dedicated his entire life to that cause. More than two dozen historical photographs help to tell one of the most significant stories of historic preservation in the western United States.
Author : Stanley W. Paher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780913814413
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (144 download)
Download or read book Nevada Towns and Tales written by Stanley W. Paher and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dom Lindars
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (181 download)
Download or read book The Ditches of Nevada City written by Dom Lindars and published by . This book was released on 2023-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ronald Farrell
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299147533
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (991 download)
Download or read book The Black Book and the Mob written by Ronald Farrell and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1995-09-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale of good and evil, of corruption and deceit, of prejudice, politics, and power, this compelling account scrutinizes the immensely lucrative Nevada gambling industry’s struggle to maintain legitimacy—or at least the appearance of it. Ronald A. Farrell and Carole Case tell how state regulators created the “Black Book” in the 1960s, a list of “notorious and unsavory” persons banned forever from owning, managing, or even entering casinos in the state. The regulators dramatically pursued and publicly denounced former lieutenants of Al Capone, alleged overlords of the American Mafia, nationally known professional gamblers, and major casino owners, as well as small-time bookies and hoods, reputed sports fixers, and gambling cheats. To date, thirty-eight names have been entered in the Black Book, including Sam Giancana, Anthony Spilotro, and Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal. Farrell and Case contend, however, that the denunciations were a melodrama, meant to show that the government was cleansing the city of corruption. Through the Black Book, the regulators focus public attention on “the Mob,” rather than on a multitude of competing criminal interests already in the gaming industry. The authors uncover evidence of ethnic discrimination by the regulators, including selective prosecution of Italian Americans whose notoriety fit popular Mafia stereotypes. The Black Book and the Mob records hearings of the regulatory commission and the voices of lawyers, government officials, casino owners, and the people named in the Black Book itself. This Las Vegas story is a rebuke to the gaming industry and a cautionary tale for many states and communities now weighing the legalization of casino gambling.
Author : John David Ellingsen
Publisher : Farcountry Press
ISBN 13 : 9781591520894
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Witness to History written by John David Ellingsen and published by Farcountry Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witness to History, by Virginia City Curator Emeritus John D. Ellingsen, is a delightful and often moving book, unusual among writings on the Gold Rush era of Montana and the West. It is part history, part memoir, and part passionate essay about the importance of historic preservation. The book details the origins of Virginia City and Nevada City their rough beginnings and their glory days. It also offers a unique perspective on the restoration and saving of Virginia and Nevada Cities by a man who has dedicated his entire life to that cause. More than two dozen historical photographs help to tell one of the most significant stories of historic preservation in the western United States.
Author : William A. Douglass
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780984101443
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Death After Life written by William A. Douglass and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gary Noy
Publisher : Heyday.ORIM
ISBN 13 : 1597142832
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (971 download)
Download or read book Sierra Stories written by Gary Noy and published by Heyday.ORIM. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Gold Rush Stories shares tales of the larger-than-life characters from the history of the legendary Sierra Nevada mountain range. With its 14,000-foot granite mountains, crystalline lakes, conifer forests, and hidden valleys, the Sierra Nevada has long been the domain of dreams, attracting the heroic and the delusional, the best of humanity and the worst. Stories abound, and characters emerge so outlandish and outrageous that they must be real. Could the human imagination have invented someone like Eliza Gilbert? Born in Limerick, Ireland, in 1818, she transformed herself into Lola Montez, born in Seville, Spain, in 1823, and brought to the Gold Country the provocative “Spider Dance”—impersonating a young woman repelling a legion of angry spiders under her petticoats. Or Otto Esche, who in 1860 imported fifteen two-humped Bactrian camels from Asia to transport goods to the mines. Or the artist Albert Bierstadt, whose paintings Mark Twain characterized as having “more the atmosphere of Kingdom-Come than of California.” Or multimillionaire George Whittell Jr., who was frequently spotted driving around Lake Tahoe in a luxurious convertible with his pet lion in the front seat. These, and scores more, spill out of the pages of this well-illustrated and lively tribute to the Sierra by a native son.
Author : Jeff Burbank
Publisher : M. Evans
ISBN 13 : 1461663083
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)
Download or read book Las Vegas Babylon written by Jeff Burbank and published by M. Evans. This book was released on 2008-03-07 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens in Vegas doesn't necessarily stay in Vegas and the proof is in this lively and entertaining compilation of stories chronicling decades of decadence, celebrity shenanigans, and political corruption, as well as the glitz and glamour of the casinos that pass for everyday life in Las Vegas. Underneath the city's present success lies many infamous tales of excess and debauchery. Using new information from recently released FBI documents, Jeff Burbank brings to life the Vegas mob in its heyday, recounting never-before-heard tales of the mobsters who made Vegas what it is today. But mobsters aren't the only ones with skeletons in Las Vegas' closet. Over the years, Hollywood stars have had their share of the limelight. Burbank has uncovered the many fateful, and often amusing, incidents that have befallen the glamorous and here he recalls the details of the darkest moments in the lives of the famous and foolish: Marilyn Monroe's quickie divorce; boxer Sonny Liston's secret heroin deal just before his death; The Doors singer Jim Morrison's arrest for fighting on the Strip; and the hookers who trick-rolled comedian Tommy Smothers in his hotel room. With fast-paced and entertaining prose, Burbank captures the true stories from Las Vegas' seedy underbelly that have led to America's 100-year fascination with the aptly named Sin City.
