The passage of the 1902 Reclamation Act created a mandate for the federal government to build dams on the Colorado River and its powerful tributaries. By 1920 the US Geological Survey had surveyed the
This slim volume details the history of Carson City, Nevada and examines how the town's location in the region and the machinations of its early residents led to it being named the state capital. The
Borchard (sociology at the U. of Nebraska at Kearney) presents a document of the plight of homeless men and women in the United States' most anti-homeless city, Las Vegas. Drawing from interviews with
On March 1, 1968, some ten thousand Chicana/o students walked out of their classes across the Southwestern United States in protest against educational inequalities and for more inclusive pedagogies.
Beginning in 2001 the city of Reno Nevada began a project to lower its inner-city railroad line into a thirty foot deep trench, creating an interesting opportunity for archaeological study rarely avai
America’s current "war on drugs" is not the nation’s first. In the mid-nineteenth century, opium-smoking was decried as a major social and public health problem, especially in the West. Although China
Jews have always been one of Nevada’s most active and influential ethnic minorities. They were among the state’s earliest Euro-American settlers, and from the beginning they have been involved in ever
Believing in Place is a reflection on the ways that human needs and spiritual traditions can shape our perceptions of the land. That the Great Basin has inspired such a complex variety of responses is
The Trail Book?is a classic of American nature writing. First published in 1918, it is a collection of children’s tales, framed by its setting in New York’s Museum of Natural History. For two children
In this one-of-a-kind travel book, William L. Fox navigates us through the stunning void of the Great Basin and the neurophysiological processes by which we make sense of the landscape with art, archi
Jude is a Las Vegas casino dealer who barely survived the deadly MGM fire in 1980. More than two decades later, he’s still dealing, a tired, middle-aged man, divorced, struggling with debt, and trying
"At Pyramid Lake details the social, cultural, and environmental history of this unique desert terminus lake, located forty miles northeast of Reno. Pyramid Lake has long been a site of allure and con
