The Oral History Project Of The University Of Nevada Reno Library
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The Oral History Project Of The University Of Nevada Reno Library
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Author : Mary Ellen Glass
language : en
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Release Date : 1977
The Oral History Project Of The University Of Nevada Reno Library written by Mary Ellen Glass and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Nevada categories.
Oral History Project University Of Nevada
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Author : University of Nevada, Reno. Oral History Project
language : en
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Release Date : 1978
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Oral History Program Of The University Of Nevada Reno Library
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language : en
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Release Date : 1983
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A Short History Of Las Vegas
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Author : Barbara Land
language : en
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Release Date : 2004-03-01
A Short History Of Las Vegas written by Barbara Land and has been published by University of Nevada Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-03-01 with History categories.
Today’s Las Vegas welcomes 35 million visitors a year and reigns as the world’s premier gaming mecca. But it is much more than a gambling paradise. In A Short History of Las Vegas, Barbara and Myrick Land reveal a fascinating history beyond the mobsters, casinos, and showgirls. The authors present a complete story, beginning with southern Nevada’s indigenous peoples and the earliest explorers to the first pioneers to settle in the area; from the importance of the railroad and the construction of Hoover Dam to the arrival of the Mob after World War II; from the first isolated resorts to appear in the dusty desert to the upscale, extravagant theme resorts of today. Las Vegas—and its history—is full of surprises. The second edition of this lively history includes details of the latest developments and describes the growing anticipation surrounding the Las Vegas centennial celebration in 2005. New chapters focus on the recent implosions of famous old structures and the construction of glamorous new developments, headline-making mergers and multibillion-dollar deals involving famous Strip properties, and a concluding look at what life is like for the nearly two million residents who call Las Vegas home.
Becoming America S Playground
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Author : Larry D. Gragg
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2019-08-29
Becoming America S Playground written by Larry D. Gragg and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-29 with History categories.
In 1950 Las Vegas saw a million tourists. In 1960 it attracted ten million. The city entered the fifties as a regional destination where prosperous postwar Americans could enjoy vices largely forbidden elsewhere, and it emerged in the sixties as a national hotspot, the glitzy resort city that lights up the American West today. Becoming America’s Playground chronicles the vice and the toil that gave Las Vegas its worldwide reputation in those transformative years. Las Vegas’s rise was no happy accident. After World War II, vacationing Americans traveled the country in record numbers, making tourism a top industry in such states as California and Florida. The Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce saw its chance and developed a plan to capitalize on the town’s burgeoning reputation for leisure. Las Vegas pinned its hopes for the future on Americans’ need for escape. Transforming a vice city financed largely by the mob into a family vacation spot was not easy. Hotel and casino publicists closely monitored media representations of the city and took every opportunity to stage images of good, clean fun for the public—posing even the atomic bomb tests conducted just miles away as an attraction. The racism and sexism common in the rest of the nation in the era prevailed in Las Vegas too. The wild success of Frank Sinatra’s Rat Pack performances at the Sands Hotel in 1960 demonstrated the city’s slow progress toward equality. Women couldn’t work as dealers in Las Vegas until the 1970s, yet they found more opportunities for well-paying jobs there than many American women could find elsewhere. Gragg shows how a place like the Las Vegas Strip—with its glitz and vast wealth and its wildly public consumption of vice—rose to prominence in the 1950s, a decade of Cold War anxiety and civil rights conflict. Becoming America’s Playground brings this pivotal decade in Las Vegas into sharp focus for the first time.
Hoover Dam
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Author : Joseph E. Stevens
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2014-11-20
Hoover Dam written by Joseph E. Stevens and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-20 with Architecture categories.
In the spring of 1931, in a rugged desert canyon on the Arizona-Nevada border, an army of workmen began one of the most difficult and daring building projects ever undertaken—the construction of Hoover Dam. Through the worst years of the Great Depression as many as five thousand laborers toiled twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, to erect the huge structure that would harness the Colorado River and transform the American West. Construction of the giant dam was a triumph of human ingenuity, yet the full story of this monumental endeavor has never been told. Now, in an engrossing, fast-paced narrative, Joseph E. Stevens recounts the gripping saga of Hoover Dam. Drawing on a wealth of material, including manuscript collections, government documents, contemporary newspaper and magazine accounts, and personal interviews and correspondence with men and women who were involved with the construction, he brings the Hoover Dam adventure to life. Described here in dramatic detail are the deadly hazards the work crews faced as they hacked and blasted the dam’s foundation out of solid rock; the bitter political battles and violent labor unrest that threatened to shut the job down; the deprivation and grinding hardship endured by the workers’ families; the dam builders’ gambling, drinking, and whoring sprees in nearby Las Vegas; and the stirring triumphs and searing moments of terror as the massive concrete wedge rose inexorably from the canyon floor. Here, too, is an unforgettable cast of characters: Henry Kaiser, Warren Bechtel, and Harry Morrison, the ambitious, headstrong construction executives who gambled fortune and fame on the Hoover Dam contract; Frank Crowe, the brilliant, obsessed field engineer who relentlessly drove the work force to finish the dam two and a half years ahead of schedule; Sims Ely, the irascible, teetotaling eccentric who ruled Boulder City, the straightlaced company town created for the dam workers by the federal government; and many more men and women whose courage and sacrifice, greed and frailty, made the dam’s construction a great human, as well as technological, adventure. Hoover Dam is a compelling, irresistible account of an extraordinary American epic.
A Directory Of Oral History Interviews Related To The Federal Courts
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Author : United States. Federal Judicial History Office
language : en
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Release Date : 1992
A Directory Of Oral History Interviews Related To The Federal Courts written by United States. Federal Judicial History Office and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Courts categories.
This work was produced in furtherance of the Center's statutory mandate to conduct, coordinate, and encourage programs relating to the history of the judicial branch ...
Nevada Libraries
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language : en
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Release Date : 1969
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Encyclopedia Of Library And Information Science
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Author : Allen Kent
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 1977-02-01
Encyclopedia Of Library And Information Science written by Allen Kent and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977-02-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
High Roller
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language : en
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Release Date : 1986
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