Description
A celebration of the career of noted historian Wilbur S. Shepperson, this collection covers such diverse topics as medical history, minority history, atomic testing and weapons, gambling, humanism, and the ideal of the university in history. The essays compiled here, all by Nevada scholars, reflect the broad range of Shepperson's interests—Nevada, the West, Europe, and the humanities.

Contents
Contents:

NEVADA AND THE WEST
Michael J. Broadhead: "Contributions of Medical Officers of the Regular Army to Natural History in the Pre-Civil War Era"

Phillip I. Earl: "By the Knife: Tonopah's Gregovich-Mircovich Murder Case"

Sue Fawn Chung: "Gue Gim Wah: Pioneering Chinese American Women of Nevada"

Eugene P. Moehring: "Town Making on the Southern Nevada Frontier: Las Vegas, 1905-1925"

Elizabeth Raymond: "Middle Ground and the Marginal Space: Sense of Place in the Middle West and the Great Basin"

A. Constandina Titus: "Cultural Fallout in the Atomic Age"

Thomas L. Clark: "Gambling Language and Nevada Law"

EUROPE
Michael S. Coray: "Britain, Race, and Africa: Racial Imagery and the Motives for British Imperialism"

Martha L. Hildreth: "Nostalgia for the Good Old Days: Images of Medicine's Past among French Physicians of the Fin de Siècle"

Bruce T. Moran: "Alchemy, the Technical Option, and the Nuclear Age"

HUMANITIES
Phillip C. Boardman: "Humanism and Language in Chaucer's Dream Visions"

James F. Hazen: "Newman on 'Toleration'"

Darlene Harbour Unrue: "Brackenridge's Modern Chivalry: A Reassessment"

James W. Hulse: "The University Ideal in History; or, The Authority of the Rebellious Professor"

Ann Ronald: "Company for a Lonesome Dove"

John G. Folkes: "Publications by Wilbur S. Shepperson"