Beyond the Ranges

Walter R. Averett

ISBN 10: 087062279X / ISBN 13: 9780870622793

Published by Walter R. Averett, 1997

About this Item

Signed by AUTHOR -- "Best wished from Walter R. Averett" on title page. Owner name and address on front paste-down. No other names or marks inside. Hardcover looks almost new. Dust jacket is very nice except for wear to top of spine.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Beyond the Ranges
• Publisher: Walter R. Averett
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 087062279X
• ISBN 13: 9780870622793
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: Book

About this title

Synopsis

A local history of people, places, events, mines, railroads, and ranches, mostly in Lincoln and Clark counties, Nevada, with some coverage in California, Arizona, Utah, and northeastern Nevada. Locating map, 57 photos, index.

About the Author

The author grew up on a cattle ranch at Carp, Nevada, where his father, C.L. "Clint" Averett, was a pumper for the Union Pacific from 1924 to 1932, then a rancher at Carp and farther up the Rainbow Canyon; they moved to Caliente, Nevada, in 1944. Walter attended grade school at Carp and high school at Panaca, Nevada (Class of '45), then he attended the University of Nevada, Reno. He graduated with a B.S. in chemistry. His first job out of college was in the U.S. Bureau of Mines Oil-Shale Demonstration Plant at Rifle, Colorado, interrupted by service in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. After leaving Rifle in 1953, he lived in Boulder City and Las Vegas, Nevada, working as a shift chemist in a titanium plant and as an engineer on the atom bomb test program. His career as a chemist took him to Vicksburg, Miss.; Parkersburg, W.Va.; Hazleton, Pa.; and finally, in 1977, to Grand Junction, Colo., where he and his wife, Marjorie, live in retirement.

He wrote Sunday feature articles for the "Las Vegas Review-Journal" in 1958-59; he wrote and published two previous books, "Directory of Southern Nevada Place Names" (1962) and "Through the Rainbow Canyon" (1995); and he has edited five guidebooks for geologic field trips in Colorado and Utah.