Nevada : a history of the Silver State
"Michael S. Green, a leading Nevada historian, provides a detailed survey of the Silver State's past, from the arrival of the early European explorers, to the predominance of mining in the 1800s, to the rise of world-class tourism in the twentieth century, and to more recent attempts to diversify the economy. Of the numerous themes central to Green's analysis of Nevada's history, luck plays a significant role in the state's growth. The miners and gamblers who first visited the state all bet on luck. Today, the biggest contributor to Nevada's tourist economy, gaming, still relies on that same belief in luck. Nevada's financial system has generally been based on a "one industry" economy--first mining and, more recently, gaming. Green delves deeply into the limitations of this structure, while also exploring the theme of exploitation of the land and the overuse of the state's natural resources. Green covers many more aspects of the Silver State's narrative, including the dominance of one region of the state over another, political forces and corruption, and the citizens' often tumultuous relationship with the federal government. The book will appeal to scholars, students, and other readers interested in Nevada history."--Publisher's web site
History
xvi, 505 pages ; 24 cm
9780874179736, 9780874179804, 0874179734, 0874179807
893202666
Understanding the place
Before Euro-American settlement
Explorers, emigrants, and expansion
Building up to a crisis
The Civil War and Nevada
The nineteenth-century mining boom
Boom, bust, and reform
A new century, a new boom
Making progress
From Roaring Twenties to Depression and change
The federal landscape, 1933-45
The postwar boom, 1946-58
Reshaping Nevada, 1958-70
Conservative Nevada, changing Nevada, 1971-89
A troubled boom, 1989-2001
Nevada in the twenty-first century