Nevada Books

Living in North Lake Tahoe for over 33 years cross-country skiing has become one of my great passions. In the winter months I spend four to five days a week skate skiing for fitness and pleasure. After all this time I figured I knew just about all I needed to about the ski areas in and around my home, but was I wrong. A short time into Tim's book I had already gathered new information and ideas for some exciting excursions both close to home and a day trip away. I would recommend this informative, fun book to both experienced and novice cross-country skiers. Also, if you have thought about cross-country skiing but haven't had the chance to try it, this is also the book for you. It will help you make some good decisions on where and how to start this great sport. Now, get out there and have some fun!

With brevity and charm, Hauserman shares his thorough knowledge about local and regional cross-country ski areas. (There are 13 between Mt. Shasta and Yosemite.) Anyone yearning to get out there on skinny skies - either as a novice or as a veteran looking beyond the everyday workout - should buy this book. For beginning skiers, Hauserman breaks down the complexities of this oft-misunderstood sport and tells where to get more help on the web or at local ski shops when you need it. For veterans, he provides ski maps, directions, resort highlights, activities and even a little natural history. The chapters and guide entries are straightforward. During his two-plus years of field research, Hauserman explored thousands of kilometers of trails and ate in every resort restaurant (for research, of course!). He checked out local lodgings and interviewed managers and local skiers. The end result is a book that clarifies details and whets appetites for the best of the Sierra Nevada's groomed resort terrain.

FYI: This book was published in an little different form under Nevada Jade. For Desert Rose, Ms. Chaikin revamped and added to the plot but the story line and characters are similar to those in Nevada Jade.

I loved this book. Linda Chaikin is one of my favourite authors. She takes you to the Old West 1859 to Nevada where Virginia City is booming with silver. Annalee Halliday's father had struck it rich there! Annalee couldn't wait to tell her mother the good news. As the Hallidays travel from California to join him, they became trapped in a fierce winter fighting for survival. Marshal Brett Wilder is also searching for Jack Halliday...but not for the same reason. He is commissioned by the governor to arrest Jack Halliday for a murderer of a card dealer and for crippling Brett's father's arm who was a great surgeon. He rescues Annalee and her family from death. Annalee fights her attraction for the handsome lawman and her illness. She tries to deny the fact that she is not strong but her Lord could use her to have an impact on other people's lives. A great and wonderfull story about a young woman and her feelings of worthlessness and heartbreak and a handsome Brett Wilder who struggles with showing justice and mercy to the people who ruined his and his father's lives. I have news for everyone who likes this book. There is a sequel and it's called "Desert Star" and is due to be published in January!

What a find! This is a great book--49 poets, from 1-17 poems each, averaging maybe 7 each, written 1930-1990. These moving, vital, contemporary poems stand on their own without a Nevada connection. A quote from the editor, Shaun T. Griffin: "My motivation at first for editing this anthology was an undefined desire to see Nevada poets represented in more than passing form. But now...it is because of the poetry itself that I edit this book. The poetry made the journey worth the coming home." By Adrian C Lewis: THE CHICKEN BLUES/Outside his room the rain/sizzles upon government roofs./Inside, he fries chicken thighs/and tries not to spatter his unmade bed./Whispers circuit through the smoke./Tiny faces dance in the grease/and leap to his hand/to sink their teeth./Faces of all the women who cooked for him./He still lurks in the shadows of their eggshell skirts/and if he is fragile in his solitude/and scrambled beyond measures/of good, white taste/it is because of reasons he has yet to manufacture./He is the master of excuses./He will quite drinking tomorrow/he has said for twenty years/but then again, maybe he won't." Run, don't walk....

This book captures both the sad and the joyful. In the desert, the mountains, and the worlds of relationships. Moody and precise language make this a great read. Spend some time with it!

For the general reader, this book is an excellent overview of the tragic events of the Donner Party which have become an American icon. Though a work of fiction, the story is carefully researched and the fictional elements have been kept to a minimum. Since the rescue of the survivors in 1847, the actual events have been sensationalized and mythologized and this book does much in presenting the reader with what is known to be fact. To many, the Donner Party is shorthand for cannibalism but that is but one aspect of the ordeal experienced and not at all the most crucial one. Frankye Craig does an admirable job of filling us in on the day to day miseries and tribulations of the expedition which began even before the fateful mistake that took the Donners and their fellow travelers into the Wasatch Mountains and across the Salt Desert which made for fatal delays in the journey. Aside from the physical hardships along the way, Frankye goes into the social breakdowns which occured as a result of those hardships. Included also is the minutiae of day to day living while traveling with a wagon train on the way to a country that was itself semi-mythological at the time.

With regard to the final days of Tamsen and George Donner at the meadow where they were trapped, archaeologists Kelly Dixon and Julie Schablitsky, have confirmed Frankye Craig's version since this book was written. The one bone recovered among thousands of fragments which was thought to conclusively show evidence of cannibalism at the site turned out to be that of a horse.

There is a reference list at the back of this book for those who wish to pursue this story further but for the casual reader this book contains the basic facts as we know them to be at present.

The book was wonderful, I could not put it down. I thought about the Donner family during the day at work wondering what thier next adventure was going to be. I would highly recommend this book to anyone.

We purchased this book in preparation for a vacation in the area of Reno, Tahoe and eastern California, and it was a gem. We visited many sites we would not have known about except for this book, and had a great time. Out thanks to the author for writing this very useful book. We recommend it to anyone.

This book is one of the best travel guides that I have ever used. There are so many historical landmarks and places of interest along Highway 395. This book encourages the reader to stop and visit. If time doesn't permit, it stimulates your curiosity and imagination. Ginny Clark uses her many years of travel on Hwy 395 to pass on her love of this unique area. This book has been loaned out to more people than any other book that we own. In fact, I am thrilled to find it on Amazon so that I can order it as a gift. Highly recommend!

An excellent survey of rock art that fits the pictographs and petroglyphs into a social and psychological model based on native american interpretations of meaning. Detailed listings and directions to more familiar sites will no doubt increase visitation but the presence of people interested in preservation will hopefully deter those only motive is to deface places of beauty and wonder. Whitley's academic background enhances the book and it has appeal to informed readers and those just discovering rock art.

This book cuts through the clutter of previous rock art meanings and uses the wisdom of the native americans to describe these symbols. I enjoyed reviewing his descriptions of the sites I have already visited and learned the locations of many more. Complete directions, maps, and contacts for each site are included. This is an excellent resource for people who love rock art!

This is a great book! It's an easy read, I loved it!
There's a lot of interesting food for thought in this book.
I wonder if I'll every stop thinking about Burning Man!

"What is Burning Man?" Please read this book. This inspired work covers the modern-day history-making event with impressive conciseness and depth. Finish this delightful and philosophical "page-turner" and you'll walk away with the next best thing to being there. If you've never been, perhaps now you'll finally head straight for the Playa. If you've been once or many times, Pendell's work offers such refreshingly complete insight into this massive experience that this reader was reawakened from his slumber in the default world and transported Home once again. Thank you Dale.

More than just nostalgia-maintenance for Burners, however, this book provides a good socio-cultural analysis of Burning Man, allowing anyone a very real entryway into understanding what makes this art happening so special in today's times.

The ONLY fight of the 20th century was fought between a former undefeated champion against a charismatic and despised champion. The events leading up to the encounter and what happened thereafter are explained in detail by Robert Greenwood in his book titled "The Prize Fight of the century".

The book outlines in detail events such as Jim Jeffries and Jack Johnson's backgrounds, their fighting careers, the attention the fight drew on a global scale, Tex Rickard's remarkable efforts to pull off a late second switch of venues, and to the demand of the fight itself. The build up of the fight is re-enacted in reading chapter after chapter of this book. The reader feels the tension of the Jeffries camp before the fight and Johnson's negative portrayal by the press during the racial ugliness of the time period. As well as beyond the fight how reformers of the era opposed and almost succeeded in canceling the fight.

A unique look at a very important time period in history is very well written by Greenwood.

Robert Greenwood not only did exhausting research for his book on the Jack Johnson vs. James Jeffries "Fight of the Century," but his enthusiasm for the subject is found on the pages of the tight manuscript that is slightly under 160 pages.

There are so many angles on how the fight can be chronicled and Greenwood does a fantastic job in giving the reader a perspective in the social, sports and historical realms. The classic photographs are worth the price of the book; some even the biggest fan of boxing or American history may be seeing for the first time.

It is a very impressive book.

I liked this book as it was a story back in the 1940's and early 50's of the author's life out on the desolate Nevada desert. It was funny, sad, and the family was close knit and survived on very little but had a lot in love, and good memories. Author said he designed the cover for this book and his wife made a pattern for an afghan, crocheted one, and has the pattern for sale thru Ira Pub., 4208 Jasper Ave., Nevada, 89108. I thought this was a neat idea.

autobiography of the authors young life with his family and the kind of life that was experienced back then l940' and l950'. You wanted to laugh at time and cry at times and it was their life in the nevada desert. It was easy to read and kept your attention. He told of the times that he and siblings had and what they did to pass the time away, while living in such desolate areas. It was a real excellent book for all ages to read.

Having grown up in Boise from a young age (10), this book brought back to me the Boise of a simpler time and place. The author, Pamela Johnston, captures my memories of Boise and provides a moving story of growing up female, with all its uncertainty and heartache. The two young women in the novel (Cindy and Frances), had to make adult decisions at a much younger age than I ever did. Johnston has a way of capturing all that youthful angst and the girls' conversations and perceptions of life ring true. And, ultimately they learn what we all come to know as adults; the life choices we make, including the people we allow into our lives, are truly what makes us who we are.

This is a lovely, heartfelt first novel and I look forward to reading this author again.

We all know that you can't judge a book by its cover, but if we didn't know that we would go for this book at first touch. Holding Little Lost River in your hands, it feels substantial, solid, like it is meant to endure. The cloth binding backed by a page of quality paper with actual texture harkens back to the days when publishers offered substance to their readers. Best of all, Johnston's writing in this book matches the vessel that bears it: substantial, enduring, endearing. Johnston shows us the textures of life in the everyday places we live. She is especially successful at using metaphors that are both subtle and expansive. The title of the book comes from a river that runs "underground and [shows] up again a hundred miles away, in tiny springs that barely resembles the river it used to be." (264) This provides a guiding image for the unforeseen flow of life that Cindy and Frances experience. Along the way, the conversing reflections between the two young women are moving. As I listened alternatively to Fran and Cindy each sharing her perspective on life, I came to understand my own life better. I remembered that some people who made little more than a cameo in my life have still left a deep impression. I saw how I often judge too quickly before knowing the journey that has made people who they are. And more importantly, I learned again that tracing that journey along side of a person can awaken compassion to replace the hastily made verdict. Bubbling up in the middle of the book is the voice of another young woman that works this miracle well. This beautifully bound book covers life in its highs and lows. Johnston invites us to witness life in all its fragility and the love that is necessary because of such fragility.