Beyond the Ranges (signed)

Averett, Walter R. (signed)

ISBN 10: 087062279X / ISBN 13: 9780870622793

Published by Privately Published, Grand Junction, Colorado, 1997

About this Item

Grand Junction, Colorado: Privately Published, 1997. Signed by the Author directly on the title page (his signature only, NOT personalized to anyone). Appears unread. NOT a library discard. Fine condition in a bright and shiny Near Fine dust jacket. The jacket has one short (half inch) closed tear and two marks where something, perhaps a price sticker, was removed. NO chips, rubbing or fading. Square and tight. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Pages are fresh, crisp, clean and unmarked -- apparently never read. Illustrated with numerous b/w photographs. List of chapter notes. Bibliography. Index. Bound in the original gilt-stamped maroon boards Complete with dust jacket. From the publisher: "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.". Signed by the Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. x, 133pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Beyond the Ranges (signed)
• Publisher: Privately Published, Grand Junction, Colorado
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 087062279X
• ISBN 13: 9780870622793
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: NOT a library discard
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fine condition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine dust jacket
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Nevada history

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.