It Happened in Las Vegas: Remarkable Events That Shaped History

by Paul W. Papa

Overview

A fascinating collection of thirty compelling stories about events that shaped Sin City, It Happened in Las Vegas describes everything from a nineteenth-century land deal that almost created two competing cities to the torrential rainstorm that flooded downtown Vegas with three inches of water.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780762750177
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	10/01/2009
Series:	It Happened In Series
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	168
Sales rank:	1,109,151
Product dimensions:	6.38(w) x 9.04(h) x 0.46(d)

About the Author

Paul W. Papa is a full-time writer who has lived in Las Vegas for nearly two decades. For more than fifteen years he worked at several casinos. As a security officer, it was he who shut and locked the doors of the Sands Hotel and Casino for the final time. He later became a hotel investigator for a major strip casino, during which time he developed a love for writing true stories about uncommon events.