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Nevada, the Last Frontier

Nevada, the Last Frontier
Author: Truman D. Vencill
Publisher:
Total Pages: 39
Release: 1939
Genre: Nevada
ISBN:

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Nevada's Northeast Frontier

Nevada's Northeast Frontier
Author: Edna B. Patterson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 752
Release: 1991
Genre: History
ISBN:

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Last Frontier

Last Frontier
Author: Alaska Magazine
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2023-12-12
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 149308268X

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Since 1935, Alaska magazine has charted the development of our biggest, most mysterious state. With compelling stories on such events as earthquakes, tidal waves, grizzly and polar bear attacks, the Russian influence, the Gold Rush, the Japanese invasion of the Aleutians during World War II, hunting and fishing, the lives of sourdoughs, village life, and much more, The Last Frontier truly captures the essence of our largest state. Other chapters include the tale of the Eskimo commercial pilot, flying villagers across the Arctic. Or the one about the young woman who conducted the 1940 census in the Interior by dog team. Or the story about the family who placed their automobile on a raft, hooked paddles to the axles, and steered their home-built paddle-wheeler down the Yukon River to the first road-whereupon they removed the car from the barge, and drove home to Nebraska.Other stories you won't want to miss in this book include: Don Sheldon's floatplane rescue of eight men from white water; the mystery of Klutuk, the beast of the tundra; how Julie Collins's sled dog saved her life; the trials and tribulations of a nurse running a hospital on the arctic coast in 1921; an Athabascan writer interviews her grandmother, a medicine woman; newsworthy events across the state and much, much more.


Aurora, Nevada 1860-1960

Aurora, Nevada 1860-1960
Author: Clifford Alpheus Shaw
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2016-09-29
Genre:
ISBN: 9781536908008

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Despite a century of history, and the valiant efforts of all those who believed the town would last forever, Aurora, Nevada, is now and forevermore a "Colossal Wreck" slowly returning to its beginnings-a sagebrush and pinyon pine covered valley home to jackrabbits and a few ghosts from the past. While Aurora is gone, its historical record remains, thus providing us the opportunity to reconstruct the town and its society if only in our imagination. Most historical accounts about Aurora have focused on the town during its early 1860s mining boom. However, Aurora's rich and colorful history deserves a closer look. This new reference-oriented publication includes hundreds of edited and annotated newspaper clippings and other firsthand accounts about Aurora's buildings, businesses, major mines, social life, Paiute citizens, ghost town days, and final destruction over the entire length of its century-long history. It also includes directories for the boom years 1864, 1880, and 1915, as well as 6 maps and over 150 photographs, many of which are "then and now" comparisons of the same view.


Letters from the Nevada Frontier

Letters from the Nevada Frontier
Author: Tasker Lowndes Oddie
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004
Genre: Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN: 9780874175820

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In 1898, Tasker L. Oddie, a twenty-seven-year-old New Jersey attorney and business executive, moved to Austin, Nevada, to serve as secretary of a company with mining and other interests in central Nevada. Over the next four years, he wrote frequent letters to his mother recounting life on the Nevada frontier and the people he met there--miners, ranchers, Native Americans, and the townspeople of tiny, remote Austin and other isolated backcountry settlements. Nevada at the end of the nineteenth century was in economic decline, its known deposits of precious minerals nearly exhausted, its population drifting away to other possibilities. Soon Oddie was also striking out on his own in search of valuable mining prospects, eventually finding his fortune in the spectacular silver deposits of Tonopah, which were discovered in 1900. Oddie's letters are full of vivid details, the accounts of a young man eager to experience life and make his fortune, observant and humorous, intelligent and endlessly curious. The letters remain the best records we have of central Nevada when it was still an unsettled frontier, peopled by rugged pioneers and ever-hopeful fortune-seekers. Now available in paperback for the first time, "Letters from the Nevada Frontier is an essential resource for anyone interested in the history of Nevada at the end of the nineteenth century.


Nevada Gunsmoke

Nevada Gunsmoke
Author: Elmer D. McInnes
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2022-01-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 1476686319

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From 1860 to 1900, many towns in Nevada sprang up to serve the mining camps in the area. These towns provided the breeding ground for a unique character known as "the mining camp gunman." This book delves into the violent and gritty lives of various Nevada characters, including gunfighting miner Dick Prentice, lawman and politico Leslie Blackburn, peace officer William McKee, ruthless killer Hank Parrish, outlaw escape artist John Burke and other characters.


Nevada Yesterdays

Nevada Yesterdays
Author: Frank Wright
Publisher: Stephens Press, LLC
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781932173277

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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.


The Farmer's Last Frontier

The Farmer's Last Frontier
Author: Fred Albert Shannon
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Total Pages: 468
Release: 1945
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780873320993

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Part of a series of detailed reference manuals on American economic history, this volume traces the development and expansion of agriculture across the USA during the last half of the 19th century.