| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 228 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Wilbur S. Shepperson series in Nevada history |
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Wilbur S. Shepperson series in Nevada history.
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| Contents |
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1 -- Beginnings -- 1 |
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Captain Nathaniel V. Jones's Report from the Las Vegas Mormon Fort-Mission -- The Gold Hill Record Book -- Congressman James M. Ashley's (R-Ohio) Reasons for Nevada Statehood, 1865 -- William M. Ormsby's Letter to Stephen Douglas -- President Abraham Lincoln's Proclamation of Nevada Statehood, 1864 -- The Nevada Constitution's Paramount Allegiance Clause -- 4 |
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Dan De Quille on Woodcutting in the Sierra Nevada -- Fortune-Telling on the Comstock -- Julia Bulette's Probate Records -- Mark Twain's Description of the Execution of John Millian, 1868 -- James Nye's Speech to the First Territorial Legislature -- Frances Fuller Victor's "Nevada" -- 5 |
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Mrs. Hugh Brown on Tonopah Housekeeping -- Theodore Roosevelt's Admonition of Governor John T. Sparks -- The Sacramento Bee on George Wingfield -- 7 |
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Paul Hutchinson on Nevada Gambling in The Christian Century -- Postcards Promoting Gambling in Nevada -- Images of Nevada Prostitution -- Images from the Johnson-Jeffries Fight -- Postcards Advertising Nevada Divorce -- Postcards Promoting Marriage in Nevada -- Erma O. Godbey on the Construction of Hoover Dam -- 9 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-223) |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
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| SUBJECT |
Nevada -- History -- Sources
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| Subject |
Nevada
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Sources
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Reid, John B. (John Bevis), 1965-
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James, Ronald M. (Ronald Michael), 1955-
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| ISBN |
0874176506 |
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9780874176506 |
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