History of Nevada

Elliott, Russell R.

ISBN 10: 0803207816 / ISBN 13: 9780803207813

Published by University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1973

About this Item

from the inside DJ flap: "Nevada, once thought of as a "bridge to some place else," since 1950 has been the nation's fastest-growing state and has become the mecca for hundreds of thousands of visitors annually." DE2. black cloth, silver lettering on spine, DJ not price clipped $9.50, 447 pages, indexed, illustrated, signed by author to his daughter on dedication page, DJ chipped.

Seller Inventory # 5567458

Bibliographic Details

• Title: History of Nevada
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska
• Publication Date: 1973
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803207816
• ISBN 13: 9780803207813
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: line drawings by Jack Brodie
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: near fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: very good
• Weight: 2.5 pounds
• Signed: Signed
• Seller catalogs:
  • Mining
  • History
  • Nevada

About this title

Synopsis

This updated edition of History of Nevada is still the most comprehensive one-volume economic, political, and social history of a state that was once thought of as "a bridge to somewhere else." It will be welcomed by students and general readers.

About the Author

Russell R. Elliott is the author of Nevada's Twentieth-Century Mining Boom, and William D. Rowley is the author of U.S. Forest Service Grazing and Rangelands: A History. Elliott is a professor emeritus of history and Rowley a professor of history at the University of Nevada-Reno.