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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Beginnings | |
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| The Physical Environment | |
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| A Computer-Enhanced Map of Nevada Geography | |
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| Mark Twain on Nevada's "Harsh Land" | |
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| Contacts and Conflicts | |
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| The Adventures of Zenas Leonard, Fur Trader | |
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| The Pyramid Lake War from Two Perspectives: Numaga and Edmund Bryant | |
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| The Native American Condition: Various Writings by Sarah Winnemucca | |
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| Bonanzas and Borrascas | |
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| First Settlements, Territory, and Early Statehood | |
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| Captain Nathaniel V. Jones's Report from the Las Vegas Mormon Fort-Mission | |
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| The Gold Hill Record Book | |
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| Congressman James M. Ashley's (R-Ohio) Reasons for Nevada Statehood, 1865 | |
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| William M. Ormsby's Letter to Stephen Douglas | |
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| President Abraham Lincoln's Proclamation of Nevada Statehood, 1864 | |
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| The Nevada Constitution's Paramount Allegiance Clause | |
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| The Comstock | |
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| Mark Twain and Gold Fever | |
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| The Old Corner Bar's Water Filter | |
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| Nevada Architecture in the Nineteenth Century | |
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| The Virginia Evening Chronicle Reports on Opium on the Comstock | |
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| Dan De Quille on Woodcutting in the Sierra Nevada | |
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| Fortune-Telling on the Comstock | |
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| Julia Bulette's Probate Records | |
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| Mark Twain's Description of the Execution of John Millian, 1868 | |
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| James Nye's Speech to the First Territorial Legislature | |
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| Frances Fuller Victor's "Nevada" | |
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| Nineteenth-Century Social History | |
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| Letters to Wovoka | |
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| The Reno Evening Gazette Reports on Coxey's Army in Nevada | |
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| Two Voices for Civil Rights in the Nineteenth Century | |
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| Rolling the Dice | |
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| Turn-of-the-Century Mining Booms | |
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| Mrs. Hugh Brown on Tonopah Housekeeping | |
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| Theodore Roosevelt's Admonition of Governor John T. Sparks | |
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| The Sacramento Bee on George Wingfield | |
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| Twentieth-Century Social History | |
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| The Baskets of Dat-so-la-lee | |
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| Carvings and Structures of Nevada's Basque Sheepherders | |
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| C.L.R. James's Letters from Nevada | |
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| Warden Dickerson's Account of the Execution of Gee Jon, 1924 | |
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| Billy Murray's "I'm On My Way to Reno" | |
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| Prohibition Legislation in Nevada | |
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| Postcards Promoting Automobile Tourism in Nevada | |
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| Depression and New Deal | |
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| Nevada's New Deal Buildings | |
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| Paul Hutchinson on Nevada Gambling in The Christian Century | |
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| Postcards Promoting Gambling in Nevada | |
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| Images of Nevada Prostitution | |
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| Images from the Johnson-Jeffries Fight | |
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| Postcards Advertising Nevada Divorce | |
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| Postcards Promoting Marriage in Nevada | |
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| Erma O. Godbey on the Construction of Hoover Dam | |
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| Modern Nevada | |
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| H. M. Peterson's Letter about Japanese Railroad Workers during World War II | |
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| Hank Greenspun Challenges Senator Joe McCarthy | |
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| Testimony from the Kefauver Hearings in Las Vegas | |
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| The Atomic Energy Commission Explains Atomic Testing in Nevada | |
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| Thomas H. Saffer Witnesses an Atomic Test at the Nevada Test Site | |
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| Arthur Miller on Nevada and The Misfits | |
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| Grant Sawyer on Getting Tough on Gaming Control | |
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| James B. McMillan on the Civil Rights Movement in Las Vegas | |
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| Sammy Davis Jr. on the Segregation of African American Entertainers in Las Vegas | |
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| Lena Horne on Entertaining in Las Vegas | |
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| "The Seed" Poster: Rock, Art, and the History of Nevada | |
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| Paul Laxalt's Reflections on His Relationship with Ronald Reagan | |
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| The Jarbidge Debates--Elko County v. the Forest Service | |
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| The Yucca Mountain Debate--Spencer Abraham v. Kenny Guinn | |
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| Sources | |
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| Contributors | |