University Of Nevada Press: 244 books
The Infamous King Of The Comstock
William Sharon And The Gilded Age In The West
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2006
William Sharon was one of the most colorful scoundrels in the nineteenth-century mining West. He epitomized the robber barons of the nation’s Gilded Age and the political corruption and moral decay for which that period remains notorious; yet he was also a visionary capitalist who controlled more...
Nevada Place Names
A Geographical Dictionary
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1974
Author and researcher Helen Carlson spent almost fourteen years searching for the origins of Nevada’s place names, using the maps of explorers, miners, government surveyors, and city planners and poring through historical accounts, archival documents, county records, and newspaper files. The result...
by Patricia D. Cafferata
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
The delightful and touching stories in Christmas in Nevada tell how Nevadans have celebrated the holiday, from 1858 to the present day. Some are told by well-known Nevadans, such as Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), Robert Laxalt, and former governors Bob List and Richard Bryan, but much more of the book...
Charcoal and Blood
Italian Immigrants in Eureka, Nevada, and the Fish Creek Massacre
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Charcoal and Blood is a detailed account of a heinous crime perpetrated on Italian immigrants engaged in the production of charcoal on Nevada’s mining frontier at the close of the nineteenth century. On August 18, 1879, in a canyon near Fish Creek, outside Eureka, Nevada, five Italian charcoal...
Desert Mementos
Stories of Iraq and Nevada
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Desert Mementos is a collection of loosely connected short stories set during the early stages of the Iraq War (2004 and 2005). The stories rotate from battles with insurgents and the drudgery of the war machine in Iraq to Nevada, where characters are either preparing for war, escaping it during their...
Searchlight
The Camp That Didn'T Fail
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2007
Deep in the desolate Mojave Desert in Nevada’s extreme southern tip lies a small mining town called Searchlight. This meticulously researched book by Searchlight’s most distinguished native son recounts the colorful history of the town and the lives of the hardy people who built it and sustained...
Lost in Austin
A Nevada Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
In 1974 Jim Andersen and his wife, tired of the congestion and high taxes in California, decided to start a new life in rural Nevada. They settled on Austin, a town of about 250 people perched on a mountainside along the legendary Highway 50, “the loneliest road in America.” In the middle of the...
Juniper Blue
(A Novel)
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2006
This engrossing new novel by acclaimed author Susan Lang continues the saga of Ruth Farley, the fiercely independent young woman who was the protagonist of Small Rocks Rising, published by the University of Nevada Press in 2002. Ruth is still on her homestead at the end of a rugged canyon in California’s...
Nevada's Changing Wildlife Habitat
An Ecological History
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
For millennia the ecology of the Great Basin has evolved because of climate change and the impacts of human presence. Nevada’s Changing Wildlife Habitat is the first book to explain the transformations in the plants and animals of this region over time and how they came about. Using data gleaned...
Bombs in the Backyard
Atomic Testing and American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
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. Fifty years later, author A. Costandina Titus reviews contemporary nuclear policy issues concerning the...
Connecting The West
Historic Railroad Stops And Stage Stations In Elko County, Nevada
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002
Shawn Hall's immensely popular guidebooks to Nevada ghost towns have become essential resources for backcountry explorers and scholars alike. Now Hall returns to Elko County to survey the county's railroad and stage stations, as well as other sites not included in his earlier survey of this colorful...
by Richard Moreno
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
Nevada’s capital city is today a charming, modern community, with an unusually eventful past. A Short History of Carson City traces its history from its origin as a mid-nineteenth-century trading post to its rise as the political center of Nevada. Here are the hard-working citizens and colorful...
Barbara F. Vucanovich
From Nevada to Congress, and Back Again
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Barbara Vucanovich was sixty-two when she ran in her first election, becoming the first woman ever elected to a federal office from Nevada. In this engaging memoir, written with her daughter, she reflects on the road that led her to Washington--her years as mother, businesswoman, and volunteer.
Senator Howard Cannon of Nevada
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Howard Cannon (1912 - 2002) represented Nevada in the U.S. Senate from 1958 until 1982 and acquired a reputation as one of its most productive and influential members. Because he was a modest man more comfortable with hard work than self-aggrandizement, he was also one of its most under-appreciated....