Jack Harpster: 2 books
by Jack Harpster
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
LaVere Redfield was a prolific hoarder. When he died in 1974, his estate was estimated at more than $70 million. Executors found 680 bags of silver coins and 407,000 Morgan and Peace silver dollars in his Reno mansion. A local Reno legend, Redfield gambled regularly in Virginia Street casinos. He survived...
The Genesis of Reno
The History of the Riverside Hotel and the Virginia Street Bridge
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Over 157 years ago—before there was a Reno, Nevada; before there was a state of Nevada; and even before there was a Nevada Territory—there was a bridge over the Truckee River at a narrow, deeply rutted cattle and wagon trail that would one day become Virginia Street. There was also a small rustic...