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| Author | : Darwin Lambert |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 1991 |
| Genre | : Great Basin National Park (Nev.) |
| ISBN | : 9780911797954 |
A close look at the rich history of the region of Great Basin National Park.
| Author | : Bruce Grubbs |
| Publisher | : Bruce Grubbs |
| Total Pages | : 84 |
| Release | : 2010-09-07 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 0982713029 |
| Author | : James W. Hulse |
| Publisher | : University of Nevada Press |
| Total Pages | : 261 |
| Release | : 2017-03-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 087417466X |
The Nevada of lesser-known cities, towns, and outposts deserve their separate chronicles, and here Hulse fills a wide gap. He contributes in a text rich with memories tramping through rural Nevada as a child, then as a journalist seeking news and gossip, then later as an academic historian and a parent trying to share the wonders of the high desert with his family. Nobody is more qualified to write about the cultural nuances of rural Nevada than Hulse, who retired after 35 years as a professor of history at University of Nevada, Reno. Robert Laxalt wrote an article in National Geographic in 1974 entitled “The Other Nevada” in which he referred to “the Nevada that has been eclipsed by the tinsel trimmings of Las Vegas, the round-the-clock casinos, the ski slopes of the Sierra. It is a Nevada that few tourists see.” With this book Hulse reflects on Laxalt’s insights and shows changes—often slow-moving and incremental—that have occurred since then. Much of the terrain of rural Nevada has not changed at all, while others have adapted to technological revolutions of recent times. Hulse states that there is no single “other” Nevada, but several subcultures with distinct features. He offers a tour of sorts to what John Muir called the “bewildering abundance” of the Nevada landscape.
| Author | : Burns Mantle |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 684 |
| Release | : 1926 |
| Genre | : American drama |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Burns Mantle |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 728 |
| Release | : 1926 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Bill Fiero |
| Publisher | : University of Nevada Press |
| Total Pages | : 456 |
| Release | : 2009-10-15 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0874178037 |
Geology of the Great Basin is the essential introduction to the geology of this physically complex, ever-changing region. Written in a clear, succinct style and generously illustrated with photographs, diagrams, and maps, the book describes the fundamentals of geologic processes, then discusses the physical attributes and geologic history of the Great Basin. The author also offers readers information about specific sites where significant geologic features can be observed. The book, first published in 1986, is now available in a new, easier-to-handle paperback edition that will make it more convenient for classroom use and for readers who want to carry it with them in their car or backpack.
| Author | : Gretchen M. Baker |
| Publisher | : University Press of Colorado |
| Total Pages | : 254 |
| Release | : 2012-04-14 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : 1492000515 |
Great Basin National Park is in large part a high-alpine park, but it sits in one of America’s driest, least populated, and most isolated deserts. That contrast is one facet of the diversity that characterizes this region. Within and outside the park are phenomenal landscape features, biotic wonders, unique environments, varied historic sites, and the local colors of isolated towns and ranches. Vast Snake and Spring Valleys, bracketing the national park, are also subjects of one of the West's most divisive environment contests, over what on the surface seems most absent but underground is abundant enough for sprawling Las Vegas to covet it—water.
| Author | : Stephen J. Pyne |
| Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
| Total Pages | : 449 |
| Release | : 2020-04-21 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 0816540128 |
From boreal Alaska to subtropical Florida, from the chaparral of California to the pitch pine of New Jersey, America boasts nearly a billion burnable acres. In nine previous volumes, Stephen J. Pyne has explored the fascinating variety of flame region by region. In To the Last Smoke: An Anthology, he selects a sampling of the best from each. To the Last Smoke offers a unique and sweeping view of the nation’s fire scene by distilling observations on Florida, California, the Northern Rockies, the Great Plains, the Southwest, the Interior West, the Northeast, Alaska, the oak woodlands, and the Pacific Northwest into a single, readable volume. The anthology functions as a color-commentary companion to the play-by-play narrative offered in Pyne’s Between Two Fires: A Fire History of Contemporary America. The series is Pyne’s way of “keeping with it to the end,” encompassing the directive from his rookie season to stay with every fire “to the last smoke.”
| Author | : David Bradby |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 348 |
| Release | : 1980 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 9780521285247 |
Since the beginning of the nineteenth-century, many forms of theatre have been called 'popular', but in the twentieth-century the term 'popular drama' has taken on definite political overtones, often indicating a repudiation of 'commercial theatre'. Does this mean that political theatre is or tries to be more attractive to more people than commercial theatre? Does it conversely mean that commercial theatre has no political effects? The articles in this book were submitted as papers for a conference on the theme of 'popular' theatre, film and television. Contributions came from people with very different types of experience: from an ex-animal trainer to a lecturer in film studies; from playwrights, directors and actors to professional critics and academics. Each author focused on a particular problem of defining drama in performance, drawing together the conditions of performance, the types of audience and the political effects of the plays or films in question. The result was a series of fruitful connections and juxtapositions that shows the remarkable continuity of the problems raised in attempts to create a popular political drama.
| Author | : Stephen J. Pyne |
| Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
| Total Pages | : 208 |
| Release | : 2018-03-13 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 0816538255 |
Its fires help to give the Interior West a peculiar character, fundamental to its natural and human histories. While a general aridity unites the region—defined here as Nevada, Utah, and western Colorado—its fires illuminate the ways that the region’s various parts show profoundly different landscapes, biotas, and human settlement experiences. In this collection of essays, fire historian Stephen J. Pyne explains the relevance of the Interior West to the national fire scene. This region offered the first scientific inquiry into landscape fire in the United States, including a map of Utah burns published in 1878 as part of John Wesley Powell’s Arid Lands report. Then its significance faded, and for most of the 20th century, the Interior West was the hole in the national donut of fire management. Recently the region has returned to prominence due to fires along its front ranges; invasive species, both exotics like cheatgrass and unleashed natives like mountain pine beetle; and fatality fires, notably at South Canyon in 1994. The Interior West has long been passed over in national fire narratives. Here it reclaims its rightful place. Included in this volume: A summary of 19th- and 20th-century fire history in the Interior West How this important region inspired U.S. studies of landscape fire Why the region disappeared from national fire management discussions How the expansion of invasive species and loss of native species has affected the region’s fire ecology The national significance of fire in the Interior West
