Travels in the Nevada Outback
Author: Raymond M. Smith
Publisher:
Published: 1993-03
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781883301002
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Raymond M. Smith
Publisher:
Published: 1993-03
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781883301002
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Richard Menzies
Publisher: Stephens Press, LLC
Published: 2005-01-04
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 1932173404
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Richard Menzies has logged a quarter of a million miles on his vintage Volkswagon bus in pursuit of pictures and unusual stories. His favorite destination is Nevada, which encloses more open public land than any other state in the lower forty-eight. "Nevada's backcountry is sparsely populated yet surprisingly rich in diversity," he writes. "Her social fabric is a colorful tapestry of cultures and ethnicities, fringed by eccentrics who simply defy categorization. Think of the Silver State as a haven for those irregular souls who could never be content with a nine-to-five job or a three bedroom, split-level in suburbia."Passing Through is a compilation of the most memorable "misfits" Menzies has encountered in the course of his peripatetic wanderings across the American Outback.
Author: John M Glionna
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Published: 2022-03-15
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 164779045X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Join author John M. Glionna on a journey to discover the real Nevada, a place inhabited by diverse, spirited, and sometimes quirky people who make up the fabric of the Silver State. Outback Nevada explores the far-flung corners of the seventh-largest state in the nation and introduces its readers to the humanity, courage, strength, and charm of these little-known Americans. Each story is part of the vast collection of published articles Glionna has written during his decades of work as a journalist for the Los Angeles Times and the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Glionna’s interest in Nevada’s rugged, isolated landscape and the people who choose to live in this often-harsh environment was born of his own wanderings into the “outback.” Through his stories, he shares intimate portraits of rural and small-town lifestyles not many understand. Readers meet men with names like Flash and Mr. Cool; will listen to a cowboy minister preach the word of God to his parishioners; will walk with an antiques dealer from Genoa as he hunts for denim in Nevada’s abandoned nineteenth-century mine shafts; and will learn from an ex-paramedic– turned–coffee-shop–owner who provides Boulder City with a true sense of community. Full of humor, eccentricities, and compassion, these stories reveal the state’s true nature and extend an invitation to get lost “somewhere out there” in the real Nevada.
Author: Jerry Aaron
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Published: 2015-06-01
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 188924368X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a chronicle of trucking in the Silver State begins with the Teamsters of the late 1800s and follows the transportation trail as it progressed from bullwhacker to throttle jockey. It provides an insight into the building of Nevada-based trucking companies and is a narrative of early trucking The book will place the reader in the cab of a trucking time machine that covers over a hundred and fifty years of Nevada’s transportation industry.
Author: Rob Schultheis
Publisher: Random House (NY)
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Deke Castleman
Publisher: Compass America Guides
Published: 2000-10-10
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780679005353
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Introduces the history of Nevada, describes places to visit while traveling through different regions within the state, and provides brief descriptions of dining and lodging establishments.
Author: Roberta Moore
Publisher:
Published: 2005-03
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Editors Moore and Slovic have assembled 29 writers who know and love the Nevada wilderness to testify on its behalf. For those who love Nevada, for those who love the world beyond the concrete pavement, "Wild Nevada" will be thought-provoking and vital reading.