Nevada Treasure Hunter's Ghost Town Guide
Nevada Treasure Hunter's Ghost Town Guide

Author: Theron L. Fox

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 24

ISBN-13: 9780913814161

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Helps treasure hunters rediscover old mining camps, ghost town sites and roads. Includes a large fold-in map of Nevada showing the original ghost towns.

Nevada Guide to Genealogical Records
Nevada Guide to Genealogical Records

Author: Diane E. Greene

Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780806348162

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"This book pulls together records from a variety of sources, including information from county court houses, Nevada internet sites, and various lists..."--Page iv.

Roughing It
Roughing It

Author: Mark Twain

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2011-02-14

Total Pages: 886

ISBN-13: 0520948068

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Mark Twain's humorous account of his six years in Nevada, San Francisco, and the Sandwich Islands is a patchwork of personal anecdotes and tall tales, many of them told in the "vigorous new vernacular" of the West. Selling seventy five thousand copies within a year of its publication in 1872, Roughing It was greeted as a work of "wild, preposterous invention and sublime exaggeration" whose satiric humor made "pretension and false dignity ridiculous." Meticulously restored from a variety of original sources, the text is the first to adhere to the author's wishes in thousands of details of wording, spelling, and punctuation, and includes all of the 304 first-edition illustrations. With its comprehensive and illuminating notes and supplementary materials, which include detailed maps tracing Mark Twain's western travels, this Mark Twain Library Roughing It must be considered the standard edition for readers and students of Mark Twain.

Nevada Place Names
Nevada Place Names

Author: Helen S. Carlson

Publisher: University of Nevada Press

Published: 1974-01-01

Total Pages: 579

ISBN-13: 0874174031

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Author and researcher Helen Carlson spent almost fourteen years searching for the origins of Nevada’s place names, using the maps of explorers, miners, government surveyors, and city planners and poring through historical accounts, archival documents, county records, and newspaper files. The result of her labors is Nevada Place Names, a fascinating mixture of history spiced with folklore, legend, and obscure facts. Out of print for some years, the book was reprinted in 1999.

Old Heart Of Nevada
Old Heart Of Nevada

Author: Shawn Hall

Publisher: University of Nevada Press

Published: 1998-03-01

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 0874174090

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Elko County, in the old heart of Nevada, is rich in historic sites, many of them hitherto uncharted and some verging on disappearing. For the first time, historian Shawn Hall identifies and locates the ghost towns and old mining camps of Elko County and recounts their colorful histories. Following a guidebook format, Hall divides the county into five easily accessible regions, then lists the historic sites within each region and provides directions to reach them. He offers a brief history of each site as well as a description of its extant structures and their present condition. The result is a lively compilation of local history and mining and ranching lore that records the dramatic past of Nevada’s northeast corner, its pioneers and prospectors, its towns and mines, its outlaws, ranchers, merchants, mining concerns, and civic leaders. The book offers never-before available information about the old heart of Nevada and the people who settled there. It will be of enduring value to tourists and weekend explorers, historic preservationists, and all those interested in the history and artifacts of this region.