Nevada: A Bicentennial History

by Robert Laxalt

Overview

Sagebrush and neon, shepherds and gangsters, a crossroads and a refuge, Nevada is a state that "didn't deserve to be."

Through a turbulent history, Nevada has searched for an identity to call its own. How well it has succeeded is the subject of Robert Laxalt's evocative portrait of the state and its people.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393334067
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	08/17/1977
Series:	States and the Nation Series
Pages:	180
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Robert Laxalt was a correspondent to the United Press Association and founded the University of Nevada Press. He was the author of several books that depicted life in the western United States.

Editorial Reviews

Mr. Laxalt . . . has written the shortest, most poetic, and best history of Nevada you will be likely to read.” —Paul Lyon


“This book is beautifully written, and it is filled with many of the most expressive unattributed quotations you have ever read. I would unreservedly recommend it to anyone who enjoys reading books and who likes to hold to the faith that somewhere in the world, or beyond, there actually is an Oz or a Shangri-la or a Never-Never Land or a Nevada.” —Gilman M. Ostrander, Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, Spring 1978


“Nevada is part history, part travelogue, part pure bunkhouse bull, part mining, part cattle—in fact, everything that makes up the most unusual state in the nation. You’ll love it.” —Ernie Hoff, Salt Lake Tribune, October 30, 1977


“From the beginning, Laxalt sucks the reader into Nevada’s past through the words and observations of Nevadans. The volume has a liberal dose of the people’s language, a tool which furthers Laxalt’s efforts to make Nevada live—both in its past and present.” —Bill Phillips, Reno Gazette-Journal, August 7, 1977

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