Download or read book Outback Nevada written by John M Glionna and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join author John M. Glionna on a journey to discover the real Nevada, a place inhabited by diverse, spirited, and sometimes quirky people who make up the fabric of the Silver State. Outback Nevada explores the far-flung corners of the seventh-largest state in the nation and introduces its readers to the humanity, courage, strength, and charm of these little-known Americans. Each story is part of the vast collection of published articles Glionna has written during his decades of work as a journalist for the Los Angeles Times and the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Glionna’s interest in Nevada’s rugged, isolated landscape and the people who choose to live in this often-harsh environment was born of his own wanderings into the “outback.” Through his stories, he shares intimate portraits of rural and small-town lifestyles not many understand. Readers meet men with names like Flash and Mr. Cool; will listen to a cowboy minister preach the word of God to his parishioners; will walk with an antiques dealer from Genoa as he hunts for denim in Nevada’s abandoned nineteenth-century mine shafts; and will learn from an ex-paramedic– turned–coffee-shop–owner who provides Boulder City with a true sense of community. Full of humor, eccentricities, and compassion, these stories reveal the state’s true nature and extend an invitation to get lost “somewhere out there” in the real Nevada.
Download or read book Nevada s Teamsters Truckers Truck Stops written by Jerry Aaron and published by Wadsworth Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Travels in the Nevada Outback written by Raymond M. Smith and published by . This book was released on 1993-03 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book It Was Nevada written by Tony Lesperance and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-08-06 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It Was Nevada is a hard hitting book following the adventures of Terry Hope from his earliest days, to his ultimate goal of working on a Nevada cattle ranch. Yet, fate has strange ways and Hope soon finds himself at the University of Nevada pursuing a master’s degree in agriculture and just as suddenly he finds himself on the staff as an assistant professor. Hope soon realizes that Nevada agriculture is in jeopardy. Dirty politics, federal intervention and a host of other questionable factors are at work. He and his close Basque friend, Peio “Pete” Echegoyen gradually grow into strong positions at the University. Together, they set out to do their utmost to protect Nevada agriculture. Hope convinces the dean of agriculture that the university must seek out and obtain a working cattle ranch. It’s now or never! The Nevada’s livestock industry is under siege. The goal is obtained, but ultimately at a terrible cost to not only Hope, but Nevada agriculture as well. It Was Nevada sets the stage for what was historically the state’s number one industry; it follows the industry’s struggle to survive as Nevada changes from the most rural state in the union to the most urban. The reader also has a chance to peek at some of Nevada’s more sinful sides. It’s a wild ride through the pages of Nevada history, some true, some fictional – it’s up to you to decide.
Download or read book Nevada Myths and Legends written by Richard Moreno and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-09-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the mystery of a U.S. Senator's death (was he kept on ice until after the election?) to a haunting of the Governor's mansion, this selection of fourteen stories from Nevada's past explores some of the Silver State's most compelling mysteries and debunks some of its most famous myths.
Download or read book Mysteries and Legends of Nevada written by Richard Moreno and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-01-06 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the mystery of a U.S. Senator’s death (was he kept on ice until after the election?) to a haunting of the Governor’s mansion, this selection of fourteen stories from Nevada’s past explores some of the Silver State’s most compelling mysteries and debunks some of its most famous myths.
Download or read book Nevada Curiosities written by Richard Moreno and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2008-12-22 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive collection of Nevada's odd, wacky, and most offbeat people, places, and things, for Nevada residents and anyone else who enjoys local humor and trivia with a twist.
Download or read book Nevada Wilderness Act of 1985 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Public Lands, Reserved Water, and Resource Conservation and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wild Nevada written by Roberta Moore and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2005-03-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many people beyond Nevada’s borders, the state is no more than the nation’s desert dumping ground for dangerous waste. Others know it only for its hedonistic centers of gambling and entertainment. This scandal belies the extraordinary beauty and wonder of the state’s wilderness areas and the precious natural, aesthetic, and cultural resources to be found there. In Wild Nevada, editors Roberta Moore and Scott Slovic have assembled twenty-nine writers who know and love the Nevada wilderness to testify on its behalf. Contributors include literary artists and scholars, environmental and community activists, leading politicians, ranchers, scientists, and park rangers. Some essays offer observations on the political and philosophical discussions of wilderness that heat up the halls of academia and Congress; others recount moving personal encounters with wild places within Nevada; and still others comment on the ambiguities of preserving wild places through wilderness designation. But despite the eclectic backgrounds of the writers and their varied perspectives on public policy, they are all united in their devotion to the ecological and aesthetic values of Nevada’s threatened wilderness areas. Foreword by Michael Frome.
Download or read book Passing Through written by Richard Menzies and published by Stephens Press, LLC. This book was released on 2005-01-04 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Menzies has logged a quarter of a million miles on his vintage Volkswagon bus in pursuit of pictures and unusual stories. His favorite destination is Nevada, which encloses more open public land than any other state in the lower forty-eight. "Nevada's backcountry is sparsely populated yet surprisingly rich in diversity," he writes. "Her social fabric is a colorful tapestry of cultures and ethnicities, fringed by eccentrics who simply defy categorization. Think of the Silver State as a haven for those irregular souls who could never be content with a nine-to-five job or a three bedroom, split-level in suburbia."Passing Through is a compilation of the most memorable "misfits" Menzies has encountered in the course of his peripatetic wanderings across the American Outback.
Download or read book The Grit Beneath the Glitter written by Hal Rothman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book No Friday Night Lights written by John M. Glionna and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Additions to the National Wilderness Preservation System H R 1686 H R 3302 H R 3304 Nevada wilderness proposals written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Public Lands and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book BLM Permit Processing written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nevada written by Deke Castleman and published by Compass America Guides. This book was released on 2000-10-10 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the history of Nevada, describes places to visit while traveling through different regions within the state, and provides brief descriptions of dining and lodging establishments.
Download or read book Nevada Highways and Parks written by and published by . This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
