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Uncovering Nevada's past : a primary source history of the Silver State /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Reno :
University of Nevada Press,
©2004.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | Wilbur S. Shepperson series in Nevada history.
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| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part 1
- Beginnings
- 1.
- Captain Nathaniel V. Jones's Report from the Las Vegas Mormon Fort-Mission
- The Gold Hill Record Book
- Congressman James M. Ashley's (R-Ohio) Reasons for Nevada Statehood, 1865
- William M. Ormsby's Letter to Stephen Douglas
- President Abraham Lincoln's Proclamation of Nevada Statehood, 1864
- The Nevada Constitution's Paramount Allegiance Clause
- 4.
- Dan De Quille on Woodcutting in the Sierra Nevada
- Fortune-Telling on the Comstock
- Julia Bulette's Probate Records
- Mark Twain's Description of the Execution of John Millian, 1868
- James Nye's Speech to the First Territorial Legislature
- Frances Fuller Victor's "Nevada"
- 5.
- Mrs. Hugh Brown on Tonopah Housekeeping
- Theodore Roosevelt's Admonition of Governor John T. Sparks
- The Sacramento Bee on George Wingfield
- 7.
- Paul Hutchinson on Nevada Gambling in The Christian Century
- Postcards Promoting Gambling in Nevada
- Images of Nevada Prostitution
- Images from the Johnson-Jeffries Fight
- Postcards Advertising Nevada Divorce
- Postcards Promoting Marriage in Nevada
- Erma O. Godbey on the Construction of Hoover Dam
- 9.