History of Nevada
Maintaining the same high standards of the first edition, published in 1973, this new, revised edition is still the most comprehensive one-volume history of a state that was once thought of as "a bridge to somewhere else." In revising, Elliott summarizes the state's economic, political, and social history since 1973 and strengthens a major point he made then: that Nevada's acceptance of liberal marriage and divorce laws and of legalized gambling brought economic stability to a state singularly devoid of stable economic resources. -- from Book Jacket
Print Book, English, ©1987
2nd ed., rev View all formats and editions
University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, ©1987
History
xiv, 472 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
9780803267152, 9780803218116, 0803267150, 0803218117
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The physical environment
Before the White Man
The trailblazers
The first settlements
Territory to statehood, 1861-64
Early statehood: the economic foundations
The Comstock
Comstock era politics
The Depression Period, 1880-1900
Twentieth-century boom: copper becomes king
Politics of the progressive era
World War I and the 1920s
The Depression and the New Deal
Nevada and World War II
Economic development since 1950
The political scene since 1950
A social and cultural appraisal