1 online resource (xvi, 505 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index

Understanding the place -- Before Euro-American settlement -- Explorers, emigrants, and expansion -- Building up to a crisis -- The Civil War and Nevada -- The nineteenth-century mining boom -- Boom, bust, and reform -- A new century, a new boom -- Making progress -- From Roaring Twenties to Depression and change -- The federal landscape, 1933-1945 -- The postwar boom, 1946-1958 -- Reshaping Nevada, 1958-1970 -- Conservative Nevada, changing nevada, 1971-89 -- A troubled boom, 1989-2001 -- Nevada in the twenty-first century

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