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BROWSE - SERIES - Wilbur S. Shepperson Series in History and Humanities

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[Hardcover] - $29.95
After the Boom in Tombstone and Jerome, Arizona
Decline in Western Resource Towns
by Eric L. Clements
The process of a mining camp’s decline is examined through the histories of two Western towns that were reinvented as tourist attractions following their days of boom and bust.... more

[Paperback] - $21.95
Bombs in the Backyard
Atomic Testing and American Politics, 2nd Edition
by A. Costandina Titus
On January 27, 1951, the first atomic weapon was detonated over a section of desert known as Frenchman Flat in southern Nevada providing dramatic evidence of the Nevada Test Site's beginnings.... more

[Hardcover] - $39.95
Calaveras Gold
The Impact of Mining on a Mother Lode County
by Ronald H. Limbaugh, Willard P. Fuller
California’s Calaveras County—made famous by Mark Twain and his celebrated Jumping Frog—is the focus of this comprehensive study of Mother Lode mining.... more

[Paperback] - $24.95
Comstock Women
The Making of a Mining Community
Edited by Ronald M. James, C. Elizabeth Raymond
When it comes to Nevada history, men get most of the ink. Comstock Women is a collection of 14 historical studies that helps to rectify that reality.... more

[Hardcover] - $39.95
Disease and Medical Care in the Mountain West
Essays on Region, History, and Practice
Edited by Martha L. Hildreth, Bruce T. Moran
This collection of eight essays examines the health, disease, and medical care of the American West—an area flanked by the Rocky Mountains, Sierra Nevada, and Cascade Mountains.... more

[Paperback] - $19.95
East of Eden, West of Zion
Essays on Nevada
Edited and with an introduction by Wilbur S. Shepperson
A collection of essays in which a dozen historians and novelists present their impressions and concerns about "... more

[Hardcover] - $24.95
Equal to the Occasion
Women Editors of the Nineteenth-Century West
by Sherilyn Cox Bennion
Bennion provides in-depth portraits of nineteenth-century women editors of the West and their diverse publications.... more

[Paperback] - $13.95
Forty Years in the Wilderness
Impressions of Nevada, 1940-1980
by James W. Hulse
A view of Nevada history by native Nevadan and historian Hulse that suggests prosperity be based on diverse businesses rather than on a gaming-financed economy.... more