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NV - 1940-86 - History Books :

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NV - 1940-86 - History Books :
Lot of 4 Includes: 1) Our State: Nevada, by Mack, Effie Mona and Sawyer, Byrd Wall. Hardcover, 323 pages, indexed, including many photographs and illustrations. Published by The Caxton Printers, Ltd., Caldwell, Idaho, 1940. Sections covered include prehistoric settlements and early explorations, settlement and mining booms, county histories, transportation, and summary of political and social progress. 2) This Was Nevada, by Earl, Phillip I. Soft cover, 192 pages, indexed, with many photographs of the state's most memorable characters. Published by the Nevada Historical Society, Reno, NV, 1986. Autographed by the author on the title page. This work is a collection of historical vignettes representing the best of more than a decade of the author's newspaper column of the same name. 3) The Nevada Adventure, A History, by Hulse, James W. Hardcover, 311 pages, indexed. Includes photographs, illustrations by Don Kerr, and a multi-colored dust-cover (Paher #912). Published by University of Nevada Press, Reno, NV, 1966. Chapters covered include: The First Explorers, Early Mining Booms and Statehood, The Opening of Southern and Eastern Nevada: 1864-1881, The Impact of Federal Government Projects: 1900-1964, and The Atomic Age in Nevada. 4) Wool, Beef and Gold, by Georgetta, Clel. Hardcover, 381 pages, illustrated by Stewart Walters, includes colorful dust-cover with several small tears and one area at bottom left of front cover missing. Published by Pacific Books, Palo Alto, CA, 1956. Inside front cover page includes a note signed and dated by the author. The inside dust cover describes the book as "tales of frontier times-of gold mines in forgotten hills, of cattle and sheep ranches far from the centers of civilization." All VF condition.