Las Vegas 1905 1965

Author : Lynn M. Zook,Allen Sandquist,Carey Burke
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0738569739

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Las Vegas, 1905-1965 by Lynn M. Zook,Allen Sandquist,Carey Burke Pdf

Everyone thinks they know the story of Las Vegas: the showgirls, the gambling, the mob. But Las Vegas has always been much more. Families have lived here since its founding in 1905. After 1931, legalized gaming became the big tourist draw, and following World War II, the town began to market itself as ?America’s Playground.? That is when the famed Las Vegas Strip came into its own and downtown was dubbed ?Glitter Gulch.? These vintage postcards show how Las Vegas evolved from a dusty railroad town into the ?Entertainment Capital of the World,? while remaining a city filled with families and pioneering souls.

Author : Allan R. Ellenberger
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2001-05-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786450190

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Celebrities in Los Angeles Cemeteries by Allan R. Ellenberger Pdf

In accord with the fascination that surrounds Hollywood celebrities and the increasing popularity of celebrity grave-hunting, this book serves as a guide to the final resting places of the many celebrities who are buried in Los Angeles County, California. It is arranged by cemetery, and provides the following information for each person: age at time of death; date and place of birth; date and place of death; cause of death; obituary headline of the deceased; inscription on grave marker; location of grave; and a film that the celebrity appeared in. Includes appendices, web site information, bibliography, and index.

Author : Richard E. White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Anobiidae
ISBN : UVA:X001754987

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A Catalog of the Coleoptera of America North of Mexico by Richard E. White Pdf

Author : Ralph O. Patt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Artificial groundwater recharge
ISBN : UOM:39015095303080

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Las Vegas Valley Water Budget by Ralph O. Patt Pdf

Author : Richard E. White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : MINN:31951002900619P

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Agriculture Handbook by Richard E. White Pdf

Set includes revised editions of some issues.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Environmental engineering
ISBN : CORNELL:31924055436400

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EPA-600/2 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michael S. Green
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
Page : 619 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780874179743

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Nevada by Michael S. Green Pdf

Nevada: A History of the Silver State has been named a CHOICE Outstanding Title. Michael S. Green, a leading Nevada historian, provides a detailed survey of the Silver State’s past, from the arrival of the early European explorers, to the predominance of mining in the 1800s, to the rise of world-class tourism in the twentieth century, and to more recent attempts to diversify the economy. Of the numerous themes central to Green’s analysis of Nevada’s history, luck plays a significant role in the state’s growth. The miners and gamblers who first visited the state all bet on luck. Today, the biggest contributor to Nevada’s tourist economy, gaming, still relies on that same belief in luck. Nevada’s financial system has generally been based on a “one industry” economy, first mining and, more recently, gaming. Green delves deeply into the limitations of this structure, while also exploring the theme of exploitation of the land and the overuse of the state’s natural resources. Green covers many more aspects of the Silver State’s narrative, including the dominance of one region of the state over another, political forces and corruption, and the citizens’ often tumultuous relationship with the federal government. The book will appeal to scholars, students, and other readers interested in Nevada history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Las Vegas (Nev.)
ISBN : OCLC:1412752513

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Las Vegas by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Environmental engineering
ISBN : UOM:39015039966224

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Research Reporting Series by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alex Krieger
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674246454

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City on a Hill by Alex Krieger Pdf

A sweeping history of American cities and towns, and the utopian aspirations that shaped them, by one of America’s leading urban planners and scholars. The first European settlers saw America as a paradise regained. The continent seemed to offer a God-given opportunity to start again and build the perfect community. Those messianic days are gone. But as Alex Krieger argues in City on a Hill, any attempt at deep understanding of how the country has developed must recognize the persistent and dramatic consequences of utopian dreaming. Even as ideals have changed, idealism itself has for better and worse shaped our world of bricks and mortar, macadam, parks, and farmland. As he traces this uniquely American story from the Pilgrims to the “smart city,” Krieger delivers a striking new history of our built environment. The Puritans were the first utopians, seeking a New Jerusalem in the New England villages that still stand as models of small-town life. In the Age of Revolution, Thomas Jefferson dreamed of citizen farmers tending plots laid out across the continent in a grid of enlightened rationality. As industrialization brought urbanization, reformers answered emerging slums with a zealous crusade of grand civic architecture and designed the vast urban parks vital to so many cities today. The twentieth century brought cycles of suburban dreaming and urban renewal—one generation’s utopia forming the next one’s nightmare—and experiments as diverse as Walt Disney’s EPCOT, hippie communes, and Las Vegas. Krieger’s compelling and richly illustrated narrative reminds us, as we formulate new ideals today, that we chase our visions surrounded by the glories and failures of dreams gone by.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 850 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Radiation
ISBN : IND:30000090194667

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Radiological Health Data and Reports by Anonim Pdf

Author : James Kaplan
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 994 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307946935

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Sinatra by James Kaplan Pdf

One of the Best Books of the Year The Washington Post • Los Angeles Times • Milwaukee Journal Sentinel The story of Frank Sinatra’s second act, Sinatra finds the Chairman on top of the world, riding high after an Oscar victory—and firmly reestablished as the top recording artist of his day. Following Sinatra from the mid-1950s to his death in 1998, Kaplan uncovers the man behind the myth, revealing by turns the peerless singer, the (sometimes) powerful actor, the business mogul, the tireless lover, and—of course—the close associate of the powerful and infamous. It was in these decades that the enduring legacy of Frank Sinatra was forged, and Kaplan vividly captures “Ol’ Blue Eyes” in his later years. The sequel to the New York Times best-selling Frank, here is the concluding volume of the definitive biography of "The Entertainer of the Century."

Author : Lawrence O. Christensen,William E. Foley,Gary Kremer
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 860 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1999-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0826260160

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Dictionary of Missouri Biography by Lawrence O. Christensen,William E. Foley,Gary Kremer Pdf

Provides short biographies on notable men and women from Missouri from a variety of areas including politics, business, agriculture, entertainment, sports, social reform, science and religion.

Author : Bruce A. Glasrud,Cary D. Wintz
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806163499

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Black Americans and the Civil Rights Movement in the West by Bruce A. Glasrud,Cary D. Wintz Pdf

In 1927, Beatrice Cannady succeeded in removing racist language from the Oregon Constitution. During World War II, Rowena Moore fought for the right of black women to work in Omaha’s meat packinghouses. In 1942, Thelma Paige used the courts to equalize the salaries of black and white schoolteachers across Texas. In 1950 Lucinda Todd of Topeka laid the groundwork for the landmark Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education. These actions—including sit-ins long before the Greensboro sit-ins of 1960—occurred well beyond the borders of the American South and East, regions most known as the home of the civil rights movement. By considering social justice efforts in western cities and states, Black Americans and the Civil Rights Movement in the West convincingly integrates the West into the historical narrative of black Americans’ struggle for civil rights. From Iowa and Minnesota to the Pacific Northwest, and from Texas to the Dakotas, black westerners initiated a wide array of civil rights activities in the early to late twentieth century. Connected to national struggles as much as they were tailored to local situations, these efforts predated or prefigured events in the East and South. In this collection, editors Bruce A. Glasrud and Cary D. Wintz bring these moments into sharp focus, as the contributors note the ways in which the racial and ethnic diversity of the West shaped a specific kind of African American activism. Concentrating on the far West, the mountain states, the desert Southwest, the upper Midwest, and states both southern and western, the contributors examine black westerners’ responses to racism in its various manifestations, whether as school segregation in Dallas, job discrimination in Seattle, or housing bias in San Francisco. Together their essays establish in unprecedented detail how efforts to challenge discrimination impacted and changed the West and ultimately the United States.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Publishers' catalogs
ISBN : UOM:39015092889768

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List of Published Soil Surveys by Anonim Pdf