Nevada Books

This book was published to accompany the Nevada Museum of Arts retrospective of Oppenheim's sculptures, installations and photo montages held from October 18, 2003 to January 4, 2004. The exhibit illustrates the aritists fascination with the West and Western themes.

I have this book, but it was published in 1990. In other words, I do not have the revised and updated version.

However, if this one is anything like the copy I have, it is wonderful. The full color pictures are lovely and are used to enhance the text.

Although this book doesn't tell the history of these states, it visits historic places within each state. Much of the history of these four states (NM, AZ, NV, UT) is told through the landscape and historic buildings of each state.

I have enjoyed every place that I have visited and my visits have only been enhanced by using this book as a resource in my travels.

I really like all the fun thing to do. I am taking my dog to california and nevada this april

A memorable insight into a strange, but functional and fascinating, marriage with three children involved, and many mistresses. Dolly knew going in that Zane was a writer, traveller, adventurer, and a womanizer. From his early days as a dentist and then a struggling writer, to becoming one of the most successful American writers of all times, the letters take you along on their life together. I was not always happy with him, or her, but somehow they held it together. In modern times, I suppose we call it "giving him space" to do his hunting and fishing, finding sources and inspiration for his writing, and of course to get off with his ladies, at times two or three together. The couple had their rough spots, and I thought some of the humorous entries were where Zane was trying to keep his women separated and not bickering, and Dolly was trying to help him sort it out. Zane was good at philandering, wasting money, etc., but Dolly held it together. I liked them both, but being a father, I can only imagine the confusion and anxiety of the children. Good information about early publishing days and the film industry. Well edited with commentary by the author and mahalo to the Nevada University Press for getting the letters out for a more complete understanding of a great Western writer.

I have been looking on both Amazon and in bookstores for a comprehensive guide to camping in Nevada, Utah and Arizona (I live in Southern Nevada). Not only are there no great websites, but every book I have seen is either out of date or the series does not cover this area! Thankfully someone told me of this book (it NEVER came up on Amazon searches for camping in these states since the names are not directly in the title). The book is amazing and worth every penny. It covers everything you need to know and athough there are no pictures - I don't care. Now that I know the names of the campgrounds I am interested in, I can get pictures on-line. I would rather have the 100's of up-to-date extensive listings! Thank you so much for publishing this book!!!

This book has beautiful photos. It is an amazing river, considering its short run. I bought this for my Dad, but (secretly) I wanted it for myself.
I wish there was more info on the Truckee Meadows ditches;...

By Sam Bauman, Nevada Appeal Staff Writer

Coffee table books are common as snowflakes in December, but every once in a while one comes along that is photographically ahead of the rest.
Such is the case with "Endless Nevada, a Photo Essay" by photographer Larry Prosor and Nevada magazine publisher and Nevada Appeal travel writer Richard Moreno.
From the brilliant book jacket of embossed gold of a man fishing in the Truckee River to the picture of a lonely wagon road in the Jarbidge Wilderness, this is a treat to the eye.
There's plenty to read as well as vistas to enjoy. John. L. Smith, Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist, offers a foreword. The late Robert Laxalt adds an introduction, ending on a magnificent panorama by Prosor of "Moonset Over Independence Ridge."
Each chapter is headed by a slightly washed-out photo across two pages, with a small photo insert. The first chapter is titled "Overview." In it, Moreno offers a fast-moving history of Nevada, from geological formation millions of years ago to 1931, when the Legislature approved gambling and the six-week divorce residency.
The next chapter, "The Land," is a stunning collection of Prosor photographs, such as an open trail in Thomas Canyon, Elko County, and a surreal vision of geysers in the Black Rock Desert. Subsequent chapters include "Searching for Wraiths," "The Past," "Mealtime," "The People," "Gathering Places," "The Places," "A Cowboy Needs a Poem," "The Cowboys," "America's Outback," "The Cities" and "End of the Road."
Moreno writes of the Basque immigrants and the opening of their hotels and boarding houses, catering to the Basque sheepherders who descended from the hills for a good meal and soft bed.
In "Gathering Places," Moreno writes:
"Saloons have long been rural Nevada's social clubs, political meeting halls and psychiatry couches. Intimate secrets, heated words, unkeepable promises and tall tales have all be passed at least a time or two over a beer. In most small Nevada towns, the local watering holes are the places where nearly everyone meets, at least sometime during the week, to swap gossip, make deals, or just socialize. If a small town is perceived as something organic, then the saloon is its soul. It is where opinions are formed, decisions are made and, occasionally, consensus occurs."
In the introduction to "The Places," an especially striking photo shows two tiny people atop a gigantic tower of rock in the Ruby Mountains. You know no helicopter brought them to that peak.
In "A Cowboy Needs a Poem," Moreno writes:
"Cowboys are part of what defines Nevada and the West. Despite having been overly romanticized in movies, books, songs and television shows, there is really something appealing about a cowboy. Perhaps it is the perceived freedom of living out under the stars, or the way the cowboy myth neatly parallels traditional American beliefs in self-determination and hard work. For whatever reasons, cowboys fascinate us."
This is only a brief description of the wealth of beauty in photographs and graceful prose that make up this book. [For the money], it's definitely one for the coffee table.

Presented here for the first time since 1888 is William Lewis Manly's original account of his rescue of the Bennett and Arcan families, who took a "shortcut" across the uncharted Great American Desert in 1849-1850. These goldseekers blundered into Death Valley, where they realized they would have to abandon their wagons in order to make it out of the desert alve. Manly and his friend John Rogers were instructed to venture west over the mountains to find provisions and return to rescue those stranded in Death Valley. The two emaciated young men traveled 250 miles on foot through forbidding deserts and over rugged mountain ranges to find succor at the Rancho San Francisco. They then recrossed the desolate landscape with provisions for the families awaiting their return.

Although Manly's classic book Death Valley in '49 has been reprinted several times, his initial account of the rescue (published in monthly installments in 1888) has not been readily accessible until now. This earlier account includes valuable information missing from Manly's book.

As a result of extensive research that included hiking all possible routes, Leroy and Jean Johnson propose a compelling theory which should finally settle the long-standing controversy regarding the exact routes taken by these Argonauts. Detailed maps and numerous footnotes provide substantial evidence to support their conclusions. The Johnsons also include discoveries they made while retracing the routes.

As the most carefully researched and complete book on the Manly-Rogers routes into and out of Death Valley, this book will hold much interest for trail buffs, Death Valley enthusiasts, scholars of the westward movement, and those concerned with the role of women in opening the West.
--- from book's back cover

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This is an excellent chronological overview of the exploration efforts to discover the Great Basin in the western United States. From the Spanish endeavors of the 1700's up through John Fremont in 1843, we see how all of them were attempting to find the fabled water passage of the San Buenaventura River, which was suppose to connect the interior land area to the Pacific. The author very diligently takes us through the efforts of such men as Garces, the Dominguez-Escalante Expedition, Peter Skene Ogden, Jedediah Smith, Joseph Walker, the first overland emmigrants of the Bartleson-Biddle Expedition up to Fremont who finally mapped and gave the area we now call the Great Basin its name. It was an enjoyable book to read, well written and researched.