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[Hardcover] - $39.95
Nevada's Changing Wildlife Habitat
An Ecological History
by George E. Gruell,
with Sherman Swanson
For millennia the ecology of the Great Basin has evolved because of climate change and the impacts of human presence.... more

[Paperback] - $24.95
Nevada's Environmental Legacy
Progress or Plunder
by James W. Hulse
Nevada's relatively brief history (it became a state in 1864) has been largely a story of the exploitation of its natural resources.... more

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[Paperback] - $24.95
Nevada's Historic Buildings
A Cultural Legacy
by Ronald M. James, Elizabeth Safford Harvey,
Photographs by Thomas Perkins
The history of any place is conveyed through a range of documents and artifacts, including the buildings that over time have sheltered people and their activities.... more

[Paperback] - $14.95
Nevada's Turbulent '50s
Decade of Political and Economic Change
by Mary Ellen Glass
The 1950s marked a period of significant changes for Nevada--gambling came under national and local scrutiny, atomic bombs were tested regularly near Las Vegas, and labor disputes made national headlines.... more

[Paperback] - $21.95
Nevada's Twentieth-Century Mining Boom
Tonopah, Goldfield, Ely
by Russell R. Elliott,
Foreword by Jerome E. Edwards
With its wealth of little-known historical data, Nevada's Twentieth-Century Mining Boom chronicles the classic pattern of gold and silver rushes and emphasizes the differences between Nevada's two boom periods--the Comstock Lode of the 19th century and the latter-day boom period of the 20th century.... more

[Hardcover] - $49.95
The New Politics of Indian Gaming
The Rise of Reservation Interest Groups
Edited by Kenneth N. Hansen, Tracy A. Skopek
The advent of gaming on Indian reservations has created a new kind of tribal politics over the past three decades.... more

[Paperback] - $18.95
The New West of Edward Abbey
Second Edition
by Ann Ronald
New afterword by Scott Slovic. This volume is the only book-length study that assesses the literary career of Edward Abbey.... more

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The New World Inside a Basque Village
The Oiartzun Valley and Its Atlantic Emigrants, 1550-1800
by Juan Javier Pescador
An ethnohistory detailing the lives of fifteen generations in a Basque-speaking community in Spain and the result of their diverse contacts with the New World.... more