This book takes readers on a cartographic journey through thousands of years of history in Las Vegas and explores many dimensions of the city today. Experience what Las Vegas was like in 1865, 1905, what lies beneath the waters of Lake Mead, an d what goes on in the vast public lands around the city.
A History of the U.S. Quarantine Station in San Francisco Bay
by MD Frierson J. Gordon
ISBN: 9781647790462
Pub Date: 24 May 2022
Format: Paperback
240 Pages
Amidst the evolving scientific knowledge of epidemic diseases during the mid-to-late 19th century, Guarding the Golden Gate narrates the development of the Quarantine Station on Angel Island in the San Francisco Bay and illuminates the everyday activities of the station’s personnel as they met both political and public health challenges.
How the Black Homeowners' Rights Movement Shaped Modern Los Angeles
by Jennifer Mandel
ISBN: 9781647790349
Pub Date: 29 March 2022
Format: Paperback
372 Pages
The Coveted Westside explores the middle-class African American-led movement to challenge housing discrimination, gain equal access to twentieth-century Los Angeles, and ward off resegregation. Black professionals, from actors to entrepreneurs to doctors, made the city’s distinguished neighborhoods of West Adams Heights in the 1940s and the Crenshaw area, View Park, View Heights, and Windsor Hillsin the postwar era hubs in the fight for fair housing.
Italian Immigration in the American West: 1870-1940 is a comprehensive study of Italian immigration in thirteen western states. While documenting the contribution of Italian men and women to the development of the American West, as well as identifying the cooperative relationship between all immigrants in western enclaves before 1940, Scambray’s study challenges many of today’s assumptions surrounding immigration, race, and gender.
The Unexpected Survival of an Endangered Species in the Modern American West
by Kevin C. Brown
ISBN: 9781647790103
Pub Date: 7 September 2021
Format: Paperback
256 Pages
The Devils Hole pupfish is one of the rarest vertebrate animals on the planet; its only natural habitat is a ten-by-sixty-foot pool near Death Valley, on the Nevada—California border. Isolation in Devils Hole made the fish different from its close genetic relatives, but as Devils Hole Pupfish explores, what has made the species a survivor is its many surprising connections to the people who have studied, ignored, protested or protected it.
Nevada’s politics are in large measure the result of its turbulent history and harsh environment. Michael W. Bowers’s concise volume explains the dynamics of the political formation process, which is strikingly unique among the fifty states. Even today, Nevada is unlike the other states in its politics and culture: economically right, yet libertarian and home to widespread gaming and a 24/7 lifestyle. It has a high percentage of federally owned lands and one of the highest rates of urbanism in the United States, yet is often dominated by rural legislators. The sixth edition is updated through 2020 and includes the full text of the state constitution with extensive annotations of all amendments to the original 1864 document.
Water has always been one of the American West’s most precious and limited resources. The earliest inhabitants—Native Americans and later Hispanics—learned to share the region’s scant rainfall...
by John P. Tuman, Tiffiany O Howard, Nerses Kopalyan and David F. Damore
ISBN: 9781948908986
Pub Date: 1 June 2021
Format: Paperback
196 Pages
Throughout history, the Latinx population has contributed substantially to Nevada’s mining, railroad, farming, ranching, and tourism industries. Latinos in Nevada provides a comprehensive analysis...
Mexico, the United States, and a Borderland Ecosystem
by Michael Welsh
ISBN: 9781948908825
Pub Date: 6 April 2021
Format: Paperback
288 Pages
Known as a place of stark beauty, dramatic geographic dimension, and challenging desert terrain, Big Bend National Park is located in West Texas on the north bank of the Rio Grande, adjacent to the...
Saints, Sinners, and Sovereign Citizens tells the fascinating history of the battle over Nevada’s lucrative public lands through the lens of the April 2014 armed standoff between Bunkerville rancher Cliven Bundy and armed militia allies against federal officers attempting to provide security for a court-ordered cattle impoundment.
