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Reno,NV - Washoe County - 1911-1999 - Historical Publication Grab Bag :

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Reno,NV - Washoe County - 1911-1999 - Historical Publication Grab Bag :
Lot of 26, including: 1) Nevada's Turbulent Yesterday…a Study in Ghost Towns by Ashbaugh, Don. Hardcover, indexed, 346 pages including photographs. Published by Westernlore Press, 1963. This book is about "Nevada's ghosts, tales of long-gone towns and the rugged individuals who built them." The author died the week the final chapter of this book was completed. 2) Lucky Baldwin: The Story of an Unconventional Success by Glasscock, C.B. Soft cover, 308 pages including photographs. Published by Silver Syndicate Press, 1993. Elias Jackson "Lucky" Baldwin was known as a "Comstock millionaire, flamboyant California and Nevada pioneer, and founder of Santa Anita Racetrack." 3) Construction of Boulder Dam, prepared in collaboration with the Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation. Soft cover, indexed, 39 pages including many photographs and diagrams. Sixteenth edition, copyright 1936 by Boulder Dam Service Bureau. In depth information and description of the building of Boulder Dam, the highest structure of its kind in the world, located in the Black Canyon of the Colorado where the river forms the boundary between NV and AZ. 4) Gold Camp Drifter, 1906-1910 by Arnold, Emmett L. Soft cover, 186 pages (Paher #38). Published by the University of Nevada Press, 1973. The author "leaves his home in Colorado at fourteen and wanders west, first as a cowpuncher, then a jack-of-all-trades, and finally a miner in such boomtowns as Goldfield, Tonopah, Rawhide, and Bodie." 5) Forty Years in the Wilderness: Impressions of Nevada, 1940-1980 by Hulse, James W. Soft cover, indexed, 141 pages including photographs. Published by the University of Nevada Press, 1986. The author, a professor of history at the University of Nevada, Reno "evaluates the state's limited resources, migratory patterns, unstable population, and uneven regional growth…." In the last three chapters he discusses gambling, the state's key source of revenue. 6) Reviewing Nevada's Legacy by Darrah, E.W. Soft cover, 29 pages including many photographs and illustrations. Signed by the author. The Sagebrush Press, 1964. 7) In Old Virginia City by Hubbard, Douglass. Signed by author. Soft cover, 24 pages including many illustrations. Published by the Awani Press, 1956. 8) Street and Area Maps of Carson City, NV by Carson City Chamber of Commerce. Fold out, color map of Carson City and surrounding points of interest. Capital Publishing Company, 1973. 9) Reno-Vated! A Description of the City of Lost Regret by Welch, J. Herbert. Published in Metropolitan Magazine, September, 1911. Article removed from magazine, stapled at spine. Consists of 9 pages and several illustrations. 10) Sagebrush Reflections, The History of Amedee and Honey Lake by Purdy, Tim. I. Soft cover, indexed, 62 pages including photographs, illustrations, and maps. Sagebrush Reflections, copyright 1983, Tim I. Purdy. 11) DETOURS: Historical Tours of Virginia City by Purkey, Becky Weimer. Foldout brochure of Virginia City. Designed by White sage Studios, Virginia City, NV. 12) Rhyolite: Death Valley's Ghost City of Golden Dreams by Weight, Harold and Lucile. Soft cover, 32 pages including maps, illustrations, and photographs. Calico Press, Twenty-nine Palms, CA, copyright 1953. 13) The Enchanted Fort by Addenbrooke, Alice Baltzelle. Soft cover, 39 pages includes bibliography, illustrations, and photographs. Published by Western Printing & Publishing Co., Sparks, NV. Covers the history and story of Fort Churchill. 14) Nevada's Sesquicentennial Gold Discovery Celebration, Dayton, 1849-1999. Full-color brochure describing the event which took place on July 17/18, 1999. 15) Passing of the Outhouse by Murray, Tom G. Signed by author, soft cover, 47 pages including illustrations and photographs. Copyright 1981 by Tom G. Murray. 16) The University of Nevada Alumni Directory (Supplement). Soft cover, 32 pages, published quarterly by the University of Nevada, Reno. 17) The University of Nevada Alumni Directory (Third Edition, 1928). Two copies, soft cover, 111 pages, published quarterly by the University of Nevada, Reno. 18) The Nevada Alumnus, Vol. XXIX, March 1, 1935, No.2. Soft cover, 127 pages. Published quarterly by the University of Nevada, Reno. 19) Reno 100 Years Old by Paher, Stanley W. Soft cover, 14 pages including including photographs. Reprinted from Nevada State Journal, May 2 and 9, 1968. Published by Gateway Press. 20) Nevada's Newspapers: A Bibliography by Folkes, John Gregg. Soft cover, indexed, 197 pages. An Associated Publication of the University of Nevada Press, 1964. 21) Directory of Southern Nevada Place Names by Averett, Walter R. Hardcover, 114 pages. Copyright 1962 by Walter R. Averett, reprint by offset 1963. 22) Silver & Potitics in Nevada: 1892-1902 by Glass, Mary Ellen. Hardcover, indexed, 242 pages including intact dustjacket. University of Nevada Press, 1969. The author "painstakingly describes the ten years of Silver party power in Nevada." 23) Bullets for the Bridegroom by Dodge, David. Hardcover, 245 pages. Copyright 1944, David Dodge. 24) Cook Book of the Women's Art and Industrial Association of Nevada, Compiled from Recipes Contributed by Ladies of Carson City, Nevada. Hardcover, indexed, includes local advertisements taken out to help defray printing costs for the book. Reproduction of the Nevada Cook Book commissioned by Valley Bank of Nevada. Copyright 1973, Dennis Mickaelian. 25) Aurora/Rhyolite/Virginia City - 1931; Virginia City/Rhyolite/Belmont - 1952. VHS cassette, 15 minutes in length.
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