Nevada : a history of the state from the earliest times through the civil war
"Not only is this book one of the best and most accurate histories of Nevada ever published, it is a valuable contribution to the hisotry of the entire Far West ... a landmark study stressing the formative years. Indispensible to any Nevada collection"--Stanley Paher, Nevada: an annotated bibliography
Print Book, English, 1936
The Arthur H. Clark Company, Glendale, Calif., 1936
History
495 pages : including frontispiece, plates, portraits, maps (1 folded), facsimile, diagram ; 25 cm
1113689
Preface
The land Nevada
The Amerinds of Nevada
Explorations in the "Unknown Land"
With Fremont in Nevada
Early emigrant trails and cutoffs across Nevada
Across Nevada with the golden army
Zealous Zionists settle Nevada
Anarchy and confusion, 1857-1861
The silver rush to Washoe
From Carson County to Nevada Territory
From territory to statehood
Nevada and the civil war
Federal relations with the Nevada Indians, 1850-1860
The last stand of the Nevada Indian
From pack animal to railroad
The Central Pacific railroad crosses Nevada
Geographic evolution of Nevada
Nevada, a land of wide open spaces
From preemption to ownership
Nevada's age of silver
"Two hundred and fifty copies printed on Covenant rag paper, each numbered and signed by the author."