Nevada Books

Forbes has written a well-documented and lucid account of the local tribes in California and Nevada dealing with a succession of non-native invaders: the Spanish, the Mexican-Indian, and the Anglo-Americans. Unfortunately, these invaders used increasingly hostile forms of removal, forced labor camps, and extermination to achieve their desires for land and resouces. Can the US criticize any nation for ethnic cleansing or genocide with such a history? Certainly not without acknowledging our own past: this is the fresh perspective one gets from reading Forbes' book. Forbes also makes clear there has been a long process of renewal in local tribes, which continues with vigor and hopefulness today.

it has color pictures and tells of the uses for the plants.

I was contemplating suicide before reading this book but it has changed my life. Thank you, Stephen. Your words have uplifted my soul. Two words: AWESOME.

I finally made it to Las Vegas a couple of years ago. It is not really in between any two places, so you cannot really drive through it on the way from some place that is not California to someplace in California the way you can drive through Reno. You really have to go to Las Vegas on purpose. The question then, of course, is how did you do at the tables, on the slots, etc. The answer is I did not gamble when I was in Las Vegas. Why not? Because the first time I was ever in Nevada I was at a gas station in the middle of nowhere (not on the way to Las Vegas), and there was a slot machine. So I took out a quarter, put it in and yanked the bandit's arm. I won two quarters back so I immediately quit, one of the few people on the face of the planet who can honestly say they were to Nevada and doubled their money on the slot machines.

R. Conrad Stein is aware that his audience is too young to gamble, so Chapter One in this America the Beautiful Second Series look at Nevada introduces "The Silver State" a place where very little come easy. Once the mines played out it was tourism that became the engine that made Nevada once of the fastest growing states. The history of Nevada as part of the American West is detailed in the next three chapters. Chapter Two, "Nevada's Distant Past," begins with the ancient peoples who left petroglyphs and ends with the first explorers from Spain and the United States. Chapter Three, "Pioneering in the Silver State," tells of the Comstock bonanza and the silver mines led to statehood for Nevada. Chapter Four, "Twentieth-Century Nevada," establishes a clear contrast to the past with the Hoover Dam, gambling, and atomic bomb testing.

The geography of Nevada is presented as "Sagebrush and Open Spaces" in Chapter Five, as Stein describes the lay of the land and the hot, dry climate. Chapter Six, "Quiet Villages and Bright Lights," establishes the contrast between the northern part of the state where the cowboys reign, the area around Lake Tahoe in the Sierra Nevada, and the Mecca that is Las Vegas. "Governing the Silver State" is covered in Chapter Seven, and if young readers do not anticipate the state metal being silver, then they are just not paying attention. More interesting is the Tule duck, a duck decoy made 2,000 years ago that is the state artifact.

Chapter Eight, "Nevada at Work," start off talking about the service industry in the state, but covers other aspects of the economy as well. Chapter Nine, "A Look at Nevadans," explains what the population explosion in the state has meant, which has 90 percent of the citizens living in city areas (only California, New Jersey and Hawaii have a greater urban percentage). This is also the chapter where we finally get to this volume's recipe, which is for Basque Garlic Soup (warning: it involves not just garlic but eggs as well). "Entertainment and Fine Arts" is the province of Chapter Ten, which covers basket weaving and literature to go along with leisure activities.

This look at Nevada is filled with full-color photographs, helpful maps, and dozens of informative sidebars. With these latter young students will find some of the most interesting things that Stein has worked into this book, such as the Lost City Museum, the ill-fated Donner Party, the Gridley sack of flour, Benjamin "Don't Call Me Bugsy" Siegel, and the E.T. Highway. A Timeline contrasting U.S. and Nevada state history is provided in the back of the book along with several pages of Fast Facts, and a list of books, organizations, and Internet sites where readers can go To Find Out More about Nevada. What stands out with this particular volume is that Stein sticks a bit more to the modern history of the state and that since there is not as much to say about Nevada as there is about a state like California, there is a bit more depth than we normally get.

Known primarily for its resort city of Las Vegas, Nevada is really a wealth of other cultural and geological resources. Its varied climates--from snow-peaked mountains to beautiful deserts--are almost unparalleled on the continent. This book will tell you and your students all about it.

The "Portrait of America" series is a wonderful introduction for pre-teens to the 50 states and to the places and events that shaped the history of the United States. This "Nevada" installment is particularly good. The book is broken down into sections like "History", "Culture", "Economy" etc., and each section is thoughtfully written and edited. The "Culture" section is especially good and is very inclusive.

This book, as well as the entire "Portrait of America" series, will prove to be a valuable teaching tool to all primary school educators.

Nevada Captive is a highly entertaining book. The sparks fly between Caley and Jake all the way through the book. He is the Marshall come to clean up the town and she is the spitfire who steals his heart. She is fiesty, headstrong and a bit too foul mouthed. She is very defiant of him and he finally spanks her. However, she continues to spit fire at him at every turn. A fast paced read and one I highly recommend.

Wildowed Lucy Donovan is loaded with cash. [good payment for a rotten marriage].

Rusty Sheffield needs money to save his ranch. He is a lawyer by trade but loves ranching. Through the misfortune of his older brothers, Tom and Landan being killed he inherits the ranch and all of its debts.

Lucy's mother had married Rusty's father for all of six months, fifteen years ago. Lucy had dreams of returning to the ranch where she had spent six of the happiest months of her life. She envisioned sharing the tranquility of the ranch with others, a dude ranch no less.

Rusty was willing to work all hours to get the money to pay Lucy back and cancel their deal. No dudes, no way!

It was wonderful to watch the growth, emotionally and mentally of Lucy, especially after she was coirced into taking care of Tom's daughter, little Cricket.

How these two people, who couldn't seem to communicate, finally managed to fall in love and understand each other made for a really great story.

Highly Recommended -- with no reservations - truly an enjoyable story.

Prior to my discovery of this book in 1994, I like most Law Officers were relegated to carrying cumbersome two volume hard back editions for reference. The Nevada Criminal and Traffic Law Manual has changed that. This book is extremely easy to carry in a brief case on duty. If you have access to a laptop, the CD rom version makes this a quick way to access all of the important statutes. The soft cover book has a somewhat less than handy index, but is workable once you become accustomed to it. The CD version has an excellent search engine with almost a "soundex" type function. If you are a Law Officer and this is available for your state, get it!

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Page-turning excitement, spellbinding drama, heart-stopping romance - these are the elements that have made the books of Rochelle Wayne truly unforgettable. And now she has written the story of a beautiful renegade and a rugged gunslinger, two lonely, desperate people whose hearts are destined to find each other in the dangerous, untamed desert of the wild west...

NEVADA FLAME

Lush, golden-haired Laura Mills began a flight for her life the night she was accused of killing the sun of a powerful banker. As a blood-thirsty posse formed in town, Laura rode blindly into the unpredictable wilderness of Death Valley while Craig Branston, a tough-as-nails bounty hunter, remained hot on her heels. But after the hired gun captured her, he thought it a real shame to take such a gorgeous creature into custody, so instead he took her into his powerful embrace... But when he found Laura a raging passion that matched his own, the tables quickly turned, and Craig became her prisoner, caught in the heat of a ...

NEVADA FLAME!

I have seldom encountered a book with as much excitement. This can be a wonderful addition to any reader's library. Seldom has an author been able to write with such clarity and verve. Once you start reading, you will not put this book down.