Download Full eBooks in PDF
It Happened In Nevada Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of It Happened In Nevada book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Author : Elizabeth Gibson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780762766277
Written in a lively, easy-to-read style, this book features approximately 30 stories written for history buffs of all ages.
Author : Frank Wright
Publisher : Stephens Press, LLC
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 1932173277
For 18 years, Las Vegans have enjoyed small helpings of their own rich history, served up by public radio station KNPR. Hearing well-told tales of characters with names like "Whiskey Pete," and the comic-opera romance between a famous female evangelist and a boyfriend called "Whataman," many a listener has wished for a transcript. This book fulfills that wish, presenting more than 100 selected mostly by the program's original author, historian Frank Wright. Wright mined the pits and pockets of local lore for nuggets little-known to the public, misunderstood by most, or merely enough fun to be worth telling once more.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781423631842
Author : Carole Marsh
Publisher : Gallopade International
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780635087270
The Big Nevada Activity Book! 100+ activities, from Kindergarten-easy to Fourth/Fifth-challenging! This big activity book has a wide range of reproducible activities including coloring, dot-to-dot, mazes, matching, word search, and many other creative activities that will entice any student to learn more about Nevada. Activities touch on history, geography, people, places, fictional characters, animals, holidays, festivals, legends, lore, and more.
Author : Erin H. Turner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781493028313
These are the stories of what happened in the West as the trickle then flood of Easterners and immigrants first began to flow into the plains, deserts, and mountains between the Pacific Ocean and the Mississippi River and, finally, far north into The Last Frontier. While some events would have happened regardless who was there—earthquakes, storms, droughts, and other natural disasters—it was because of this influx of humanity that those events were recorded and have become part of America’s history. Amid tales of loss and horror are accounts of survival and success. And among the countless adventurers who found the lure of wide open spaces and untapped resources to be as strong as the Sirens’ song to Odysseus, many found the determination to thrive in the West. And thrive they did—even better, for what they lacked in resources they made up in resourcefulness, becoming inventors, entrepreneurs, scientists, activists, explorers and more.
Author : Imogen Binnie
Publisher : MCD x FSG Originals
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374606626
One of Vogue's Best Books of 2022 So Far, Buzzfeed's Summer Books You Won’t Be Able To Put Down, Book Riot's Best Summer Reads for 2022, and Dazed's Queer Books to Read in 2022 "[Nevada] is defiant, terse, not quite cynical, sometimes flip, addressed to people who think they know. It is, if you like, punk rock." —The New Yorker "Nevada is a book that changed my life: it shaped both my worldview and personhood, making me the writer I am. And it did so by the oldest of methods, by telling a wise, hilarious, and gripping story." —Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby A beloved and blistering cult classic and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction finally back in print, Nevada follows a disaffected trans woman as she embarks on a cross-country road trip. Maria Griffiths is almost thirty and works at a used bookstore in New York City while trying to stay true to her punk values. She’s in love with her bike but not with her girlfriend, Steph. She takes random pills and drinks more than is good for her, but doesn’t inject anything except, when she remembers, estrogen, because she’s trans. Everything is mostly fine until Maria and Steph break up, sending Maria into a tailspin, and then onto a cross-country trek in the car she steals from Steph. She ends up in the backwater town of Star City, Nevada, where she meets James, who is probably but not certainly trans, and who reminds Maria of her younger self. As Maria finds herself in the awkward position of trans role model, she realizes that she could become James’s savior—or his downfall. One of the most beloved cult novels of our time and a landmark of trans literature, Imogen Binnie’s Nevada is a blistering, heartfelt, and evergreen coming-of-age story, and a punk-smeared excavation of marginalized life under capitalism. Guided by an instantly memorable, terminally self-aware protagonist—and back in print featuring a new afterword by the author—Nevada is the great American road novel flipped on its head for a new generation.
Author : Jack Harpster
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781625852366
LaVere Redfield was a prolific hoarder. When he died in 1974, his estate was estimated at more than $70 million. Executors found 680 bags of silver coins and 407,000 Morgan and Peace silver dollars in his Reno mansion. A local Reno legend, Redfield gambled regularly in Virginia Street casinos. He survived robbery and burglaries of his home, which contained false walls to store millions of silver dollars. Hating banks and paper money, as well as big government, Redfield opted to serve a prison term for income tax evasion rather than pay his debts from his ample fortune. Join author Jack Harpster for this first book-length study of this unconventional man behind the folklore and the myth.
Author : Upton Sinclair
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 5066 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-10
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547389835
This edition includes: The Jungle 100%: The Story of a Patriot The Moneychangers King Coal: A Novel The Metropolis The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism The Book of Life (Vol.1&2) The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation The Fasting Cure Mental Radio (A Book on Parapsychology) A Cadet's Honor; or, Mark Mallory's Heroism On Guard; or, Mark Mallory's Celebration The West Point Rivals; or, Mark Mallory's Stratagem A Prisoner of Morro; or, In the Hands of Enemy They Call Me Carpenter: A Tale of the Second Coming Damaged Goods (The Great Play 'Les Avaries' of Eugene Brieux) Jimmie Higgins A Captain of Industry: Being the Story of a Civilized Man King Midas: A Romance; or, Springtime and Harvest Love's Pilgrimage Samuel the Seeker The Journal of Arthur Stirling; or, The Valley of the Shadow The Overman Sylvia's Marriage The Machine The Naturewoman The Second-Story Man Prince Hagen The Pot Boiler: A Comedy in Four Acts The Menagerie; or, Night in a County Workhouse Letter to John Beardsley The Crimes of the "Times": A Test of Newspaper Decency" Upton Sinclair (1878–1968) was an American author who wrote books in many genres, but in all of them advocating for the moral ethics, better life style for the working people and social justice. Writing during the Progressive Era, Sinclair describes the world of industrialized America from both the working man's point of view and the industrialist. He has also won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943.
Author : Jerry Aaron
Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781889243689
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 : Janice Oberding
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439665091
The 287-mile stretch of highway that runs east to west across Nevada's desert is billed as the "Loneliest Road in America." But those who explore it find there is plenty to discover along the way in the towns of Austin, Eureka, Ely, Fallon and Fernley. Every one of these places has its own unique history, ghosts and stories to tell. From the sordid lynching of Richard Jennings to the humorous legend about a famous sack of flour, author Janice Oberding treks across Highway 50 seeking spirits and uncovering the tales of Singing Sand Mountain, the Red-Headed Giants, the Giroux Mine Disaster and many more.
Author : Claire Vaye Watkins
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101596753
The extraordinary debut collection from the Guggenheim Award-winning author of the forthcoming Gold Fame Citrus Winner of the 2012 Story Prize Recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters 2013 Rosenthal Family Foundation Award Named one of the National Book Foundation's "5 Under 35" fiction writers of 2012 Winner of New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award NPR Best Short Story Collections of 2012 A Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, and Time Out New York Best Book of the year, and more . . . Like the work of Cormac McCarthy, Denis Johnson, Richard Ford, and Annie Proulx, Battleborn represents a near-perfect confluence of sensibility and setting, and the introduction of an exceptionally powerful and original literary voice. In each of these ten unforgettable stories, Claire Vaye Watkins writes her way fearlessly into the mythology of the American West, utterly reimagining it. Her characters orbit around the region's vast spaces, winning redemption despite - and often because of - the hardship and violence they endure. The arrival of a foreigner transforms the exchange of eroticism and emotion at a prostitution ranch. A prospecting hermit discovers the limits of his rugged individualism when he tries to rescue an abused teenager. Decades after she led her best friend into a degrading encounter in a Vegas hotel room, a woman feels the aftershock. Most bravely of all, Watkins takes on – and reinvents – her own troubled legacy in a story that emerges from the mayhem and destruction of Helter Skelter. Arcing from the sweeping and sublime to the minute and personal, from Gold Rush to ghost town to desert to brothel, the collection echoes not only in its title but also in its fierce, undefeated spirit the motto of her home state.
Author : Stephanie D. Moussalli
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780739167007
New Mexico and Arizona joined the Union in 1912, despite the opposition from some of their residents. The Fiscal Case against Statehood examines the concerns of the people who lost the battle over statehood in the two territories. Moussalli examines their territorial and early state governments’ fiscal behavior and reveals that while their fears of steep increases in the cost of government were well-founded, statehood also significantly improved their governments’ accountability for their use of the public purse. She concludes that fiscal officials enabled statehood’s growth in government by improving the financial reports and processes. Moussalli examines New Mexico’s and Arizona’s financial reports before and after statehood, and compares them to the state of Nevada’s reports as a control. Through detailed, systematic analysis, Moussalli reveals the fiscal costs and accountability gains of statehood for the residents of New Mexico and Arizona.
Author : Matt Tullis
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780820366791
Great journalism relies on a narrative arc to engage and inform the reader. Stories Can Save Us looks at how the best reporters and writers craft narrative literary journalism. Journalist Matt Tullis uses the material he gathered in the more than seventy-five interviews he conducted with the best narrative and literary journalists in the country through his podcast, Gangrey: The Podcast, to show how these professionals conceive and writesuch compelling stories. Through his podcast, Tullis interviewed Pulitzer Prizewinners, National Magazine Awardwinners, and many authors of books of narrative journalism, including New York Times best-selling authors. He also spoke with reporters of different races and backgrounds, styles and strengths—journalists who have been published in the most prestigious newspapers and magazines—to ask: How do they find story ideas? How do they reach out to potential story subjects? What are their interviewstrategies? How do they conduct other information gathering? How do they come up with their amazing and enticing leads? How do they develop story structure? How does the story change in the revision process? How do they make their stories great and make them into the types of stories that people read and talk about for years? Through Tullis’s conversations with these top-tier journalists, we are offered a window into their methods and practices as well as the motivations behind great journalism and how it speaks to the cultural climate of its time. Tullis’s goal was to expand the power and potential of what amazing reporting and narrative writing can do, believing that it can literally change a reader’s mood and, possibly, a reader’s life.
Author : Albert Woods Moe
Publisher : Al Moe
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 0971501904
59 black and white photos.
Author : Melissa Farley
Publisher : Prostitution Resource & Education
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Science
ISBN : 0615162053
Prostitution and Trafficking in Nevada addresses the scope of the sex industry in Nevada, including human rights violations against women in the Nevada legal brothels. The book describes how the multibillion-dollar illegal sex industry in Las Vegas works. Sex trafficking from within and outside of the US, advertising for prostitution, political corruption, pornography, organized crime and the constant demand of men for paid sex - all contribute to prostitution and trafficking in Nevada.