Laxalt, Robert

Reno. 1991. University of Nevada Press. 1st Printing of This New Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0874171792. 146 pages. paperback. Cover design by Ann Lowe. Cover photo: William Albert Allard. keywords: History Nevada. FROM THE PUBLISHER - With a preface to the new edition by the author. ‘This book is beautifully written, and is filled with many of the most expressive unattributed quotations you have ever read. I would unreservedly recommend it to anyone who enjoys reading books and who likes to hold to the faith that somewhere in the world, or beyond, there actually is an Oz or a Shangri-la or a Never-Never Land or a Nevada.' - Gilman M. Ostrander. Sagebrush and neon, shepherds and gangsters, a crossroads and a refuge, Nevada is a state that ‘didn't deserve to be.' But it became one, and through a turbulent history, it has searched for an identity to call its own. How well it succeeded is the subject of Nevada: A History, Robert Laxalt's evocative portrait of the state and its people first published in 1977 and now reprinted with sixteen new photographs. Fourteen years ago Laxalt predicted ‘economic soundness and quality of life' in the future of Nevada. In the preface to this new edition he reexamines this prediction and reflects on the changes that have occurred in Nevada over the past decade and a half - the urban plight of Las Vegas and Reno; the monumental strides women have made in politics; the renewed appreciation of the land by both conservationists and opportunists; and the continued growth of the tourism and gaming industries. He finds what is left of the Nevada he knows in the small towns where ‘it is possible to look for a hundred miles without any signs of habitation, range upon range of desert mountains in hues of rose, gray, and purple following one upon the other into the interminable distance.' inventory #37675 ISBN: 0874171792.