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"At Pyramid Lake details the social, cultural, and environmental history of this unique desert terminus lake, located forty miles northeast of Reno. Pyramid Lake has long been a site of allure and contestation. For the Paiutes, it has been a spiritual center that provides life-sustaining resour...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mergen, Bernard
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Reno, Las Vegas : University of Nevada Press, 2014.
Temas:
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Pyramid Lake (Nev.)
Nevada > Pyramid Lake.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chapter 1. Survival of the Numa and Pyramid Lake
  • Chapter 2. The Fate of the Lake
  • Chapter 3. The Lake and Its Totem
  • Chapter 4. Railroads, Ranches, and Dudes
  • Chapter 5. Squatters and Sportsmen
  • Chapter 6. Pyramid Lake Observed
  • Chapter 7. Pyramid Lake, Mustangers, and "The Misfits"
  • Chapter 8. Pyramid Lake Proclaimed
  • Chapter 9. Seekers in the Desert
  • Chapter 10. Pyramid Lake as Theater
  • Epilogue.

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