Nevada Books

This textbook is missing 2 chapters that are supposed to be at the end. Chapters 15 and 16 are the missing chapters. The book is constantly instructing to see page 000 that does not exsist. On quite a few of the maps, letter of the labels are missing such as africans missing the f. There are a lot more mishaps that I have not mentioned because even if I tell you this, you will still have to buy the book for your class.

First of all, never trust a guide book to Vegas which states "we don't gamble" (p. 31) and then tries to tell you which casinos are the best. This book is full of opinionated "top ten" lists which only appeal to a certain demographic. (Namely, the demographic which would drive all over town to find the number one 99-cent shrimp cocktail, and then would look for the number one spot to park the RV. Lucky for them, both lists are provided.)

Every traveler to Vegas should see Sehlinger's Unofficial Guide to Las Vegas, which would appeal to a wide variety of tourists. The younger crowd needs to check out Frommer's Irreverant Guide to Las Vegas.

I have to admit I was pretty dissapointed with this one. It has a great setup, Spotting the Hunsacker clan leaving town, Longarm hops a horse and races off in pursuit of them. Now he has got them cornered in the ghost town of Lodestar, Nevada. The group of them on the inside of an old abandoned stone house built like a fort, and Longarm without food or water on the outside...What a terrific setup for a story, imagine the ingenious ways that Longarm can pick them off one at a time,go in and get them or smoke them out. Instead Longarm spends the first third of the book sitting around with no clue and complaining about his job and reminiscing about some women he has had.

Then some women arrive and he kidnaps them and uses them for bait, but he is wounded and spends the rest of the book running away from the bad guys and getting weaker all the time. Finally at the end he has to use a woman to help him get the bad guys.

In the story I didn't have the old feeling that Longarm was the master of the situation, moving events along as he planned them, rather he was just reacting to things and trying to stay alive, not like the old (early) Longarm at all

This book doesn't really have recipes like I expected it to have. I thought it would have hamburger helper, ext in it, but instead it has goulash more freezer recipes in it than I would have liked. The recipes seem a little inconvienant due to the cooking and preparation they require.

The photography is not crisp and there is no depth to the shots. A wonderful idea, not executed very well.

This was a gift for my grandmother, she is new to town and requested a nice laminated map so she could figure out where things were and how to get there. This was the only travel size laminated map we could find. We thought this would be a nice choice for her but this map is to small for her to read and is missing much of the city including the area where she lives. Christmas eve we rushed out to Barnes and Noble to pick up a new much larger map. This is a great buy if you are only looking for a very general idea of where the older parts of town are and dont mind pulling out a magnifying glass to read it.

I had to read this book for my History of California class. I'm a freshman in college and I don't drink wine, because its illegal (duh!). So I read the whole book, intro, epilogue and all the chapters in between. I fell asleep many time reading this book and if you don't like wine and have no interest in the wine industry of santa barbara don't read this book. If you would to find out more of how the santa barbara wine industry got started by all means by this book and enjoy it becuase it right up your alley. I will say this if I was into wine and stuff I know I would have enjoyed reading this book, but since i don't like that kind of stuu, this book was a bore. i think that if you were doing a report on wine or an industry that has floursihed through the prohibition and politics this would be the main source of all your info if you did the report on the santa barbara wine industry. have fun reading wine lovers!!!

Maybe not a bad book, but close. There are much better histories of Nevada and even of Reno (William Rowley's, for instance). There is a map of the original town plan, or I would have given it but one star.

The authors seem to have based their research on a book they were too shy to include in their bibliography, Gilman Ostrander's "Nevada, the Great Rotten Borough." (Even when they take quotes from Ostrander, they get them wrong, such as Yerington's quote about horse thieves!)

They have photos from Don Dondero's Dateline Reno that aren't from that book. What a mess!

Nice idea to take a Look Magazine approach to Reno, but this is hollower than a gourd. UNR Press should recall it before someone gets injured reading it.

Scholarly yes, dry absolutely. I know the author is a Professor, but you need to appeal to your readers. There was some good research into this book, and it is obvious the author traversed some of the roads himself. However, why not elaborate on some of the tales of those emigrants coming into California. This was a relatively short book, but it took me nearly four days for me to read. That said, the author explores new ground on the hardships of people going overland to California. This is a story that needs telling.

This book is for those interested in California history. It is more focused toward the academic audience, and a general reader has to have a great desire to learn more about this subject.

I bought this book after I read the reviews below to see for myself and started to investigate their reviews.

First I must say that Dugan Aguilars photos are some of the best photos of Native Californians around. There are some very beautiful photos by him.

Now the last part of the book I have to agree. I am related to some of those people and found it interesting that they are going for federal recognition, because I always thought they were already enrolled members of Paiute tribes. At least their children are.

The tribal ancestry is off in the back part of the book, but the photos are excellent. The last part...well that is a different story. How could they be original Miwok people of Yosemite when the original inhabitants of Yosemite were Paiutes? You can't be an original Yosemite Indian and be Miwok.

I know that is what the park is telling people, but they should read Lafayette H. Bunnell's book the Discovery of the Yosemites. That has the true story of the first conversations between Chief Tenaya and the good doctor.

Uhhh...Regarding the story of Chief Bautista in Deeper than Gold.

Sure Chief Bautista was one of the chiefs to first fight Major James Savage and the whites, which was short-lived...BUT LATER...

Chief Bautista and Major James Savage became great friends. Bautista was Savage's right hand man. He helped Savage keep the Indians in line. Where was that in the book?

He gave Major Savage his women to seal their friendship.

Chief Bautista or Vow-chester made his people work for Savage in Savage's gold mines around Sonora and Mariposa. Where was that in the book?

Chief Bautista was also Major James Savage's cook.

Chief Bautista also had his men capture run-away Indians and bring them back. The whites heaped praise on Chief Bautista for his assistance.

Chief Bautista used his influence to keep the Indians in line, but he could not keep the Chowchilla Yokuts and Chief Tenaya's band in line for the whites.

March 1851, after Savage's trading post was attacked and burned in Dec. 1850, the whites asked Chief Bautista to make the other surrounding chiefs sign a peace treaty. Some of the whites distrusted Bautista because they distrusted ALL Indians and remembered years ago he had fought them.

To show them he could be trusted Bautista brought all the neighboring chiefs in to sign. All but two who he had NO control of the Chowchilla Yokuts and the Ahwahneechees refused to listen.

That is when the name of the "Yosemites" was first documented.

Chief Bautista, along with Russio, named the Ahwahneechees the "Yosemites" because they were afraid of them. Yosemite in their language meant "The Killers or "The Grizzlies". Bautista and the other neighboring chiefs were afraid of them and would never enter Yosemite Valley.

In the Stockton Republic, in the same week of March 1851, Chief Bautista was quoted in another version of the Ahwahneechees calling them the "Monahs" which meant they were Monos. He mentioned the Chowchilla Yokuts and the Ahwahneechees (Monahs)in the Stockton Republic and in Bunnell's Book.

After Chief Bautista had brought all the neighboring chiefs to sign the Fremont "Peace" treaty those doubting whites changed their mind about Chief Bautista's alliance.

Also in the Stockton newspapers there is something that was never mentioned before in Lafayette Bunnell's book "The Discovery of the Yosemite, 1851". You see not only was it Major James Savage and the Mariposa Battalion who went after Chief Tenaya and the Yosemite Indians, but mentioned in the Stockton newspaper were also "100 of Savage's Indians".

Without the help of those Indians the whites stated that they would have never captured Chief Tenaya and his people. They helped find them.

For his service in assistance in capturing Chief Tenaya and the Yosemites, Chief Bautista received "a scarf, a shirt and a pair of pantaloons".

Where is that in Deeper than Gold?



I heard Brian Bibby is now a Honary Miwok.

Maybe that is why he forgot that part of the story?

I was surprised the book had wrong tribal identification for Les James.

Les James is not a Southern Sierra Miwok, but a Chuchansi and Casson Yokut. Yokuts are not Miwoks.

The same with some of the other people.