Nevada Towns and Tales
Author: Stanley W. Paher
Publisher:
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780913814413
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Stanley W. Paher
Publisher:
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780913814413
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Diane Siebert
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 44
ISBN-13: 0618096736
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A poem describing the rise and fall of Rhyolite, a town in the desert of southwestern Nevada which grew from one gold claim to a town of 10,000 people, then, a few years later, was deserted.
Author: Norm Nielson
Publisher: Tales of Nevada Publications
Published: 1989-01-01
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780962502002
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: Nevada Publications
Published: 1986-05
Total Pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9780913814789
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Consists of chapters excerpted from Mark Twain's famous classic book 'Roughing it' with contemporary illustrations.
Author: Joe Oesterle
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9781402739408
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A travel guide to Las Vegas that also focusses on the neglection of its historic places.
Author: Janice Oberding
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2023-08-01
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 1493073478
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Time has all but forgotten the tragic tales of those who have passed through Nevada, but their spirits remain. As arguably the most haunted state in the nation, Nevada has more than its share of ghosts with intriguing stories and historical connections. Among them is the unfortunate gangster, Bugsy Siegel who died in Beverly Hills only to return to his old stomping grounds, the Flamingo Las Vegas; Julia Bulette, the ill-fated prostitute who was slaughtered in her bed on a cold January morning in 1867; and the many haunted houses in Reno, their owners forever tied to their homes, refusing to depart.
Author: Alton Pryor
Publisher: Stagecoach Publishing
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 88
ISBN-13: 9780974755106
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The reader should not be conned into thinking Nevada is only desert and casinos. Nevada gained its statehood because of its incredible wealth in gold and silver mines. Many mining towns in Nevada are now ghost towns but interesting pieces of Nevada's history and well worth a visit. The state's geology dates back to the Stone Age and its tales of train robberies, lynchings and Indian battles are all explored here in this book.
Author: Janice Oberding
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Published: 2013-08-11
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 081175295X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Silver State's most bizarre and creepy stories of paranormal activity.
Author: Dario Diofebi
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2021-04-06
Total Pages: 513
ISBN-13: 1635576202
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“Diofebi is an irreverent and audacious new voice.”- Susan Choi, National Book Award-Winning author of TRUST EXERCISE "Vegas has been right there forever, waiting for a great novelist, and Dario Diofebi has come dealing nothing but aces."--Darin Strauss, NBCC Award-Winning author of HALF A LIFE From an exhilarating new literary voice--the story of four transplants braving the explosive political tensions behind the deceptive, spectacular, endlessly self-reinventing city of Las Vegas. On Friday, May 1st, 2015 a bomb detonates in the infamous Positano Luxury Resort and Casino, a mammoth hotel (and exact replica of the Amalfi coast) on the Las Vegas Strip. Six months prior, a crop of strivers converge on the desert city, attempting to make a home amidst the dizzying lights: Ray, a mathematically-minded high stakes professional poker player; Mary Ann, a clinically depressed cocktail waitress; Tom, a tourist from the working class suburbs of Rome, Italy; and Lindsay, a Mormon journalist for the Las Vegas Sun who dreams of a literary career. By chance and by design, they find themselves caught up in backroom schemes for personal and political power, and are thrown into the deep end of an even bigger fight for the soul of the paradoxical town. A furiously rowdy and ricocheting saga about poker, happiness, class, and selflessness, Paradise, Nevada is a panoramic tour of America in miniature, a vertiginously beautiful systems novel where the bloody battles of neo-liberalism, immigration, labor, and family rage underneath Las Vegas' beguiling and strangely benevolent light. This exuberant debut marks the beginning of a significant career.