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NV - 1907-2000 - Miscellaneous Nevada History, Publications :

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NV - 1907-2000 - Miscellaneous Nevada History, Publications :
Lot of 16 including: 1) The Scrap Book, "Published by and presented with the compliments of Ross-Burke Company, Reno, NV, 1935. Soft cover pages. The work is a "miscellany of tabloid essays, inspirational mottoes, humorous sketches, poems and epigrams." 2) Foot-Loose in the West by Finger, Charles J. Hardcover, 302 pages, indexed. William Morrow & Company, New York, N.Y., 1932. the authors account of a "journey to Colorado and California and other Western States." 3) Nevada's Yesterdays, by Gehm, KathKatherine. Hardcover pages with many illustrations (Paher # 665). Filter Press, Palmer Lake, CO, 1970. The stories in this book originally appeared in several Copley Newspapers, and are reproduced with permission of the Copley News Service. 4) Thirteen Years a Lunatic: Poems and Essays Written By a Paranoeic Lunatic While Confined in the Nevada Hospital for Mental Diseases, edited by Asa B. Wilson, an employee. Hardcover, 171 pages with illustrations by the author (Paher #2172). Wilson Co. Publishers, Reno, NV 1907. In the preface, the editor notes that this "paranoiac belongs to the subdivision known as "verreuktheit," which furnishes the "prophets," …This is an incurable form of hereditary insanity." 5) Churchill County, In Focus, Annual Journal of the Churchill County Museum Association, Vol. #11, 1997-98, Number #1. The journal "solicits articles or photographs of scholarly or popular interest dealing with the history and people of Churchill County and neighboring Nevada regions." The cover photograph, for example, shows an "atomic bomb explosion lights Fallon's pre-dawn sky on the 6th of February, 1951." 6) Steeples Among the Sage, A Centennial Story of Nevada's Churches by Loofbourow, Leon L. Soft cover, 160 pages, indexed (Paher #1166). Published under the auspices of the CA-NV Annual Conference of the Methodist Church, San Francisco, CA, 1964. Autographed and dated by the author on the title page. 7) Nevada Expose', What Every Sucker Should Know Before Gambling in Nevada by a Reno bartender, Ford, Jason (Jack). Soft cover, 22 pages. Expose' Press Publications, Sausalito, CA. The story "about the stench of hoodlum-control of one of the great states of these United States." 8) The Nevada Constitution, Origin and Growth by Bushnell, Eleanore with Driggs, Don W. Soft cover, 220 pages, indexed, with several photographs (Paher # 241). University of Nevada Press, Reno, NV, 1980. 9) Inside Nevada Schools: A Challenge for the Future by Nevada State Retired Teachers Association. Soft cover, 309 pages with illustrations (Paher #1443). Published by the NSRTA, Carson City, NV, 1976. 10) Tokens and Medals Depicting the Carson City Mint by Dunn, Hal V. Soft cover, 42 pages, indexed, with many illustrations. Copyright 1999 by Hal Dunn. Includes autographed greeting from author to G. Schmidtmann on title page. 11) Two copies of The Amargosa News, Your Guide to the Death Valley Area, Vol. 8, Number 2, February-March 2000, published by Michael DeLee. Soft cover, 40 pages (some in color) including articles, events guide, and many advertisements. 12) Yesterday's Nevada, Maps Showing Trails and Settlements in Early Nevada, prepared by State of NV Dept. of Highways, Planning Survey Division, 1975. Soft cover, 7 pages, includes maps and descriptions of trails, ghost towns, and railroads. 13) The Evolution of a Dream, 1874-1974-2074. Centennial Program, A Centennial-Bicentennial Performance, Pioneer Theater Auditorium, February 28, 1975. University of Nevada, Reno. 14) Nevada Newspaper Days: A History of Journalism in the Silver State by Highton, Jake. Soft cover, 325 pages, indexed. Published by Heritage West Books, Stockton, CA, 1990. Autographed by author on dedications page. This work "fills a gap: no history of Nevada journalism previously existed. Yet most of the colorful history of Nevada was first told through the state's newspapers." 15) Las Vegas, Playtown U.S.A. by Best, Katherine and Hillyer, Katherine. Hardcover, 178 pages, with forew