Nevada Books

This believed to be out of print book, offers an exceptionally detailed review of Las vegas and what makes its people tic. filled with hundreds of pictures, inside stories, and information from the cities early days to such historical events as the MGM fire, the book concentrates however on the people that work in Las Vegas and make this such a special town. However the book is quickly dated as the town is ever changing, it does have a little story about steve Wynn, and the building of the Mirage, so the book is before the renaissance of the early 1990's. It offers lots of looks at many hotels that have vanished, a collectors must have. Peter Huender (Vegaspeter) e-Vegas

In this book William Fox writes about maps, the Great Basin desert, Native American Rock Art, ecology, ranchers, the many dimensions of water in the desert, Michael Heizer's landscape projects and history. The book is unique for the tone he strikes and the desert that he writes about. This is a detailed and articulate book that never bogs down.

He writes with a naturalist's eye and a poet's heart. The blurb on the dust jacket compares his writing to Barry Lopez. The comparison is apt and Fox has put together something here I will remember and re-read for a long time to come. He examines why deserts charm us and explores the Great Basin on foot and with eloquence. I loved it from the Introduction to the detailed Bibliography at the end. Read it!

This appears to be the only resource of its kind, a book on the history of the Washo written by or at least sanctioned by the tribe. There is another book on the Washo, also out of print, but it reads more like an anthropologist's study by a white man. Wa She Shu has the flavor of a conversation with a well-informed member of the tribe.
The book is well organized by topics and readable in small doses or large. The writing is just amateur enough (naive?) to feel like an authentic account from a parallel culture, but quite good enough to be engaging and informative.
After describing the various aspects of pre-settlement life, the author shows considerable restraint in recounting the near-extermination of the Washo by the white man, letting the facts speak rather than indulging in what could have been excusable polemics.
This book is one of a kind. It would have been irreplaceable even if it were poorly done, but fortunately it is well done (too short if anything). If you want a good comprehensive book on the Washo, I think this is the only choice.

Raine's Market is the exclusive distributor of the new printing of these magnificent historical books.
THE WALTIS and OTHER EARLY SETTLERS of Eureka and Lander County, Nevada Author: Dale E. Wooley
All copies of this 336 page literary gem are beautiful Gold Trimmed Mahogany colored Hardbacks, with dozens of historical photographs, a fold out 18" by 23" double-sided map, and are individually signed by the author.

This historical book follows the true life story of the Walti family, and many others through their immigration to the Eureka area, their lives in their newly adopted country, and the towns, ranches, and legends that they built. It is far more than a simple picture of a frontier family, indeed, it is more likened to a history of the entire region made personal through the true life families it follows. Many of the descendents of the families mentioned in this book still live in the region, and much of the material for a basis for this book came from their ancestors and the Eureka Sentinel newspaper, in addition to other sources listed in the bibliography.
This masterfully researched book is a history of the immigrants and pioneers of the Eureka area, their trials, hardships, and triumphs. Several legends are explored, with dozens of old photographs to document them, including the rise of the Curly Horse, the tunnels under Eureka, and the Charcoal Burner's Massacre. Reading this book brings one back to those years when the frontier was a sea of sage waiting to be explored, it gives the true measure of life on the ranches and in the towns of this area of America that even in the 21st century retains the isolation and majesty of the frontier.

Co-authored by Diane Domiteaux and Karen Wallis, Washoe Seasons Of Life: A Native American Story is illustrated throughout by Lea Saling's softly expressive artwork. Washoe Seasons Of Life is based upon of how the Washoe indians lived and played in the Lake Tahoe region which was later to be parts of Nevada and California. Young readers ages 7 to 11 will raptly follow Mele and her family as she helps to gather pine nuts for the winter months, joins the rabbit drive, listens to her grandfather's stories, plays with her friend, and performs her daily chores common to the Carson Valley Washoe Tribe. Washoe Seasons Of Life is highly recommended and will make a popular addition to both school and community library collections.

I BOUGHT SEVERAL BOOKS AND HAVE NOT HAD A CHANCE TO REAL THIS ONE YET. IF YOU WISH TO INQUIRE LATER I WOULD BE GLAD TO RESPOND

This is such a great little travelling companion. Take it with you in your bag as you do shopping in a different city. If you are already familiar with Vegas like I am, then you know most of the great places to shop, but this will open your eyes to 'new' stores you may not have known existed. With opening hours, phone numbers and obviously addresses, this will keep you shopping for hours at all ends of the expense spectrum - from cheap to expensive. I will always buy these books.

A wonderful collection of short stories with a common character - a liar who is searching for his way in the world. You can't help but feel incredible compassion and hope.

I am getting ready to spend a month in the Sierra Nevada mountain range and was looking for a good source for wild edibles in the area. This was the only book that I could find, and it's a gem! It's the perfect size for my pack and includes color photographs of each of the plants. The author includes all of the relevant information on the subject: plant habitat and range, physical description, food uses, medicinal uses, and cautionary guidelines. I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in learning how to live in harmony with the natural environment. In addition, the distributer/author/publisher was prompt in his delivery and personal in his response to my e-mail, a far stretch from the impersonal nature of internet commerce.

Will James, in two dozen self-illustrated books and scores of articles, created one of the most popular and probably last cowboy legends of the American West. James was
an expert at taking fact and fantasy, legend and lore, and combining them to create a cowboy story people could lose themselves in.

Sadly though, James's success in creating a happy, literary fantasy for children and adults couldn't extend to himself. A victim of the very articles, books, and drawings that
made him famous, James's immense pop ularity threatened to topple the greatest James story of all-the story of his life.

Author Anthony Amaral, a great admirer of James and the cowboy way of life, takes a literary journey to explain the great rise and even greater fall of Joseph-Ernest
Dufault-the man who created and lived the life of Will James