A Short History of Reno, Second Edition

A Short History of Reno, Second Edition

Author: Richard Moreno

Publisher: University of Nevada Press

Published: 2015-10-01

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 0874179858

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This completely revised and updated edition of A Short History of Reno provides an entertaining and informative account of Reno’s remarkably colorful history. Richard Moreno discusses Reno’s efforts, from its early beginnings in the 1850s to the present day, to reinvent itself as a recreation, entertainment, education, and technology hub. Moreno looks at the gamblers, casino builders, and performers who helped create the world-famous gaming industry, and he considers the celebrities who came to end unhappy marriages, back when Reno was “the divorce capital of the world.” Moreno brings the city’s history up-to-date with coverage of the businesspeople and civic leaders who helped make Reno an attraction that still lures millions of visitors each year. Today’s travelers and residents explore Reno’s flamboyant heart and scenic wonders, topics the author examines in an accessible and lively fashion.


History of Nevada

History of Nevada

Author: Russell R. Elliott

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 1987-01-01

Total Pages: 524

ISBN-13: 0803267150

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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


Reno's Big Gamble

Reno's Big Gamble

Author: Alicia Barber

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13:

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Chronicles the creation and transformation of Reno's reputation from backward railroad town to a nationally known "Sin Central." The author shows how Reno civic leaders, in their never-ending quest for tourist dollars, dramatically altered the economy and physical appearance of the city.


Resort City In The Sunbelt, Second Edition

Resort City In The Sunbelt, Second Edition

Author: Eugene P. Moehring

Publisher: University of Nevada Press

Published: 2016-10-01

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 087417693X

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Resort City in the Sunbelt is a non-sensationalistic, scholarly account of Las Vegas from the building of the Hoover Dam to the construction of the MGM Grand Hotel. Historian Eugene Moehring provides a balanced view of the city’s urban development. Although a unique city in many ways, Las Vegas has displayed characteristics common to other sunbelt cities across the western United States—including underfunded social services, low-density urbanization with a heavy reliance upon automobiles, a sluggish response to problems within minority communities, a preference for efficient, business-like government, and a mania for low taxes. The gaming and resort aspects are fully considered, but Moehring emphasizes the city as part of the continually expanding sunbelt. From this important study, historians will conclude that, despite some of its unusual traits, Las Vegas is much like other western cities and therefore deserves recognition as one of the fastest-growing centers in postwar America. In a new and expanded epilogue to this edition, Moehring looks at the major events of the three decades leading up to 2000 and their underpinnings.


Frontier Fake News

Frontier Fake News

Author: Richard Moreno

Publisher: University of Nevada Press

Published: 2023-03-07

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 1647790875

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When readers see the names Mark Twain and Dan De Quille, fake news may not be the first thing that comes to mind. But these legendary journalists were some of the original, and most prolific, fake news writers in the early years of Nevada’s history. Frontier Fake News puts a spotlight on the hoaxes, feuds, pranks, outright lies, witty writing, and other literary devices utilized by a number of the Silver State’s frontier newsmen from the mid-nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries. Often known collectively as the Sagebrush School, these journalists were opinionated, talented, and individualistic. While Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), who got his start at Virginia City’s Territorial Enterprise, and Dan De Quille (William Wright), who some felt was a better writer than Twain, are the most well-known members of the Sagebrush School, author Richard Moreno includes others such as Fred Hart, who concocted a fake social club and reported on its gatherings for Austin’s Reese River Reveille, and William Forbes, who enjoyed sprinkling clever puns with political undertones in his newspaper articles. Moreno traces the beginnings of genuine fake news from founding father Benjamin Franklin’s “Supplement to the Boston Independent Chronicle, Number 705, March 1782,” a fake newspaper aimed at swaying British public opinion, to the fake news articles of New York and Baltimore papers in the early 1800s. But these examples are only a prelude to the amazing accounts of petrified men, freeze-inducing solar armor, magically magnetic rocks, blood-curdling massacres, and other nonsense stories that appeared in Nevada’s frontier newspapers and beyond.


Nevada Myths and Legends

Nevada Myths and Legends

Author: Richard Moreno

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2019-09-01

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1493039830

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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.


Historic Photos of Reno

Historic Photos of Reno

Author: Donnelyn Curtis

Publisher: Turner

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 9781596524385

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Reno was first known as a mid-nineteenth century mining town, owing to Nevada's ample supply of silver and gold. Over the next hundred years, the city became an urban playground, notorious for a lax political environment that encouraged unconventional activities such as prizefighting, gambling, and uncontested divorce. Historic Photos of Reno tells the story of Reno's development through nearly 200 archival black-and-white photographs. Author Donneyln Curtis transports the reader through the city's history, illustrating how a sleepy mining community grew into the ?biggest Little City in the World.”


A Short History of Reno

A Short History of Reno

Author: Barbara Land

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13:

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This is an anecdotal treatment of Reno's history. Its text and photographs uncover some little known facts and enlighten readers about Reno's colourful past and the parade of larger-than-life characters who left their mark on the city.


It Happened in Las Vegas

It Happened in Las Vegas

Author: Paul W. Papa

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2009-10-01

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 0762758198

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A fascinating collection of thirty compelling stories about events that shaped Sin City, It Happened in Las Vegas describes everything from a nineteenth-century land deal that almost created two competing cities to the torrential rainstorm that flooded downtown Vegas with three inches of water.


Chronicles of Old Las Vegas

Chronicles of Old Las Vegas

Author: James Roman

Publisher: Museyon

Published: 2011-10-01

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1938450027

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Discover one of !--?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /--America's most fascinating cities through 30 dramatic true stories spanning Las Vegas's 150-year history. James Roman takes readers on a tour through the glamorous and sometimes sordid history of Las Vegas and explains how a railroad town transformed itself into "the Entertainment Capital of the World." Essays explore the major historic events from the founding of Sin City and the building of the Hoover Dam to the rise of the Rat Pack at the Sands and the establishment of the Mafia-controlled casinos. Also included are intriguing tales of Vegas celebrities from Frank Sinatra and Liberace to Siegfried and Roy, as well as numerous historical photos and full-color maps.