History of Nevada/Further Reading

Articles

 * 1) A. A. Earle “From California.” Independent Standard. June 8, 1860.
 * 2) Allen, Rebecca. "Alta California Missions and the Pre-1849 Transformation of Coastal Lands." Historical Archaeology 44, no. 3 (2010).
 * 3) Anderson, Kathryn. "Steps to Political Equality: Woman Suffrage and Electoral Politics in the Lives of Emily Newell Blair, Anne Henrietta Martin, and Jeannette Rankin." Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 18, no. 1 (1997): 101.
 * 4) Atherton, William. “Construction of Hoover Dam Is Uncle Sam’s Biggest Job: How Giant Hoover Dam Will Look.” New York Times March 8, 1931, 126.
 * 5) Bennett, Dana. “The Up-Growth of New Industry: Transformation of Nevada’s Economy, 1918-1929.” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly 52 (3): 175-197.
 * 6) Bennett, Dana R. "Smokin' in the Boys' Room: A Case Study of Women State Legislators in Nevada, 1919–1931." Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 31, no. 1 (2010): 89-122. https://muse.jhu.edu/ (accessed November 05, 2016), 89.
 * 7) Bernhard, Bo J., Michael S. Green, and Anthony F. Lucas. "From Maverick to Mafia to MBA." Cornell Hospitality Quarterly (Many 2008): 177-190.
 * 8) Bowers, Michael Wayne. 2006. The Sagebrush State, 3d Edition: Nevada's History, Government, and Politics. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2006, 27.
 * 9) Brodhead, Michael J. "Military Presence in Nevada, 1843-1988." Nevada Historical Society Quarterly (1989): 271-275.
 * 10) Bullard, F. Lauriston. "Abraham Lincoln and the Statehood of Nevada." American Bar Association (1940): 26.
 * 11) Carr, L. 2008. "Rationalizing the Cold War Home Front." IEEE Technology and Society Magazine 27 (3): 13-18. doi:10.1109/MTS.2008.929007. http://resolver.scholarsportal.info/resolve/02780097/v27i0003/13_rtcwhf.
 * 12) “The Carson Valley Massacre.” Mountaineer Extra. May 26, 1860.
 * Cox, Thomas R. "Before the Casino: James G. Scrugham, State Parks, and Nevada's Quest for Tourism." The Western Historical Quarterly 24, no. 3 (1993): 333-50. doi:10.2307/970754, 333.
 * 1) Dichamp, Christiane Fischer. "Let Them Speak for Themselves: Women in the American West, 1849-1900." Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1977.
 * 2) Douglas, William A. and Pauliina Raento. "The Tradition of Invention: Conceiving Las Vegas." Annals of Tourism Research 31, no. 1 (2004): 7-23.
 * 3) Fenich, George G. "Casino Gaming and Crime: Belief are Changing." Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Education (1998): 37-41.
 * 4) Foster, Jonathan. “Stigma Cities: Birmingham and Las Vegas in the National Newspaper Media, 1945-2000,” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly (Winter 2007): 301.
 * 5) Frohmberg, Eric, Robert Goble, Virginia Sanchez, and Dianne Quigley. 2000. "The Assessment of Radiation Exposures in Native American Communities from Nuclear Weapons Testing in Nevada." Risk Analysis 20 (1): 101-112. doi:10.1111/0272-4332.00010. http://resolver.scholarsportal.info/resolve/02724332/v20i0001/101_taoreifnwtin.
 * 6) "FROM CALIFORNIA." New York Times. Jun 8, 1860. 2.
 * 7) Glenn, Edward, P., Christopher Lee, Richard Felger, and Scott Zengel. "Effects of Water Management on the Wetlands of the Colorado Delta, Mexico." Conservation Biology 10, no. 4 (1996): 1175-1186.
 * 8) Glotfelty, Cheryll. "In my backyard: Nevada's literature of resistance to atomic testing and nuclear waste." Southwestern American Literature 34, no. 1 (2008): 55+. Academic OneFile (accessed December 2, 2016). http://go.galegroup.com.subzero.lib.uoguelph.ca/ps/i.do?p=AONE&sw=w&u=guel77241&v=2.1&it=r&id=GALE%7CA207324368&asid=b20d377daf991f4279c12022548db176.
 * 9) Gomes, John M. "Golconda's Glory Days: 1898-1910." Nevada Historical Society Quarterly. 50, no. 2 (2007): 145-68.
 * 10) Hacker, Barton C. "Elements of controversy: the Atomic Energy Commission and radiation safety in nuclear weapons testing, 1947-1974." University of California Press (1994).
 * 11) Harmon, Mella R. "Getting Renovated: Reno Divorces in the 1930s." Nevada Historical Society Quarterly 42, no. 1 (1999): 46-68.
 * 12) Hostetter, Ellen."Boomtown Landscapes." Material Culture 43 (2011): 64.
 * 13) Hutcherson, Austin. “Early Mining Districts of Nevada’s Comstock.” The Historian 8, no. 1 (1945): 5-18.
 * 14) James, Ronald M. "Drunks, Fools, and Lunatics: History and Folklore of the Early Comstock." Nevada Historical Society Quarterly (1992): 215-220.
 * 15) Jarvis, Bob. ”Will Casino’s return to Cuba.” Florida Sun (December 14, 2014).
 * 16) Kant, Candace C. "City of Dreams: Las Vegas in the Cinema, 1980-1989." Nevada Historical Society Quarterly 33, no. 4 (1990): 1-12.
 * 17) Kearny, Thomas. "The Mexican War and the Conquest of California: Stockton or Kearny Conqueror and First Governor?" California Historical Society 8, no. 3 (1929). doi:10.2307/25178018.
 * 18) Kersten, Earl W. "The Early Settlement of Aurora, Nevada, and Nearby Mining Camps." Annals of the Association of American Geographers 54 (1964): 490.
 * 19) Knack, Martha C. "Newspaper Accounts of Indian Women in Southern Nevada Mining Towns, 1870-1900." Banning, CA: Malki Museum, 1986, 85.
 * 20) Littlejohn, David. "The Real Las Vegas: Life Beyond The Strip." (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1999).
 * 21) Mayhall, Laura E. Nym. "Reclaiming the Political: Women and the Social History of Suffrage in Great Britain, France, and the United States." Journal of Women's History 12, no. 1 (2000): 172-181. https://muse.jhu.edu/ (accessed November 06, 2016): 174.
 * 22) Macilwain, Colin. "Nuclear triggers get subcritical scrutiny." Nature 387, no. 6635 (June 1997): 751.
 * 23) Marino, Stephen. ""Wind Blew Down"/"Wind Came Up": The Misfits and the Imagery of Arthur Miller." Nevada Historical Society Quarterly 52, no. 1 (2009), 33-47.
 * 24) McCracken, Robert D. "Las Vegas: The Great American Playground" (Expanded ed. Reno, University of Nevada Press, 1997), 99.
 * 25) Meyer, William E. H. "An American "Precedent"? Propaganda in American Movies: The Case of the Hollywood Jews." Literature/Film Quarterly 27, no. 4 (1999), 271-275.
 * 26) Moehring, Eugene P. and Michael S. Green. "Las Vegas: A Centennial History." Reno: University of Nevada Press (2005): 147.
 * 27) Morgan, H. Wayne. "Western Silver and the Tariff of 1890." New Mexico Historical Review 35, no. 2 (April 1, 1960). Proquest.
 * 28) Moss, George. "Silver frolic: Popular entertainment in Virginia city, Nevada, 1859-1863." Journal of Popular Culture 22, no. 2 (Fall 1988): 1. https://www.proquest.com/docview/1297352293 (accessed November 13, 2016), 5.
 * 29) Moss, Steven E. et al, “The effects of 911 on casino revenues: a comparison of Mississippi and Las Vegas,” Academy of Marketing Studies Journal 8.2 (2004), 33.
 * 30) “News From The Pacific.” Richmond Dispatch. March 28th, 1860.
 * 31) Peck, Gunther. "Manly Gambles: The Politics of Risk on the Comstock Lode, 1860-1880." Journal of Social History 26, no. 4 (1993): pp. 701-723.
 * 32) Petry, Nancy. “National Gambling experiences in the United States: Will History Repeat Itself?,” Addiction 108 (2013), 1032-1037.
 * 33) "Pyramid Lake-- Causes of the Outbreak--Exaggerations and Panics..." New York Times. Jun 13, 1860.
 * 34) Russel R. Elliot, “History of Nevada “The Physical Environment 2, no.2 (1973): preface, 14, accessed November 10, 2016.
 * 35) Scott, Cathy. “Sex and sin city: after a recent slump, Las Vegas has decided to drop its efforts to establish the Strip as a family destination, return to its roots and do what it does best: market itself as an adult destination, a chic, upscale version of its old self--sexy, edgy and worldly,” Business Traveller 28 (2004), 54.
 * 36) Shepper, Wilbur S. "Nevada: A Beautiful Desert of Buried Hope." Nevada Historical Society Quarterly 34, no. 4 (1991): 439-66.
 * 37) Smith, James F. "Ben Siegel: Father of Las Vegas and the Modern Casino-Hotel." Journal of Popular Culture. 1-22.
 * 38) Strauss, Jessalynn "Becoming Respectable: A History of Early Social Responsibility in the Las Vegas Casino Industry." UNLV Gaming Research & Review Journal 19, no. 2 (2015).
 * 39) The Project on Vegas, Strip Cultures: Finding America in Las Vegas (Durham: Duke University Press, 2015), 33.
 * 40) "US Resumes Nuke Weapons Experiments." Peace Research 30, no. 2 (May, 1998): 17.
 * 41) Wainwright, Mary-Jo. "Milestones in California History: The 1846 Bear Flag Revolt: Early Cultural Conflict in California." California Historical Society 75, no. 2 (1996). doi:10.2307/25177573.
 * 42) Weaver, Glen D. An Emerging Warehouse Center for the Far Western States 21, vol. 27 (1965): 21, https://muse-jhu-edu.subzero.lib.uoguelph.ca/article/431098/pdf.
 * 43) Ventura, Patricia. “Learning from Globalization-Era Las Vegas,” Southern Quarterly 42 (2003), 97-112.
 * 44) Wallis, John Joseph. "The Political Economy of New Deal Spending Revisited, again: With and without Nevada." Explorations in Economic History 35, no. 2 (1998): 140-170.
 * 45) Walker, Francis A. "The Free Coinage of Silver." Journal of Political Economy 1, no. 2 (1893): 163-78. doi:10.1086/250130.
 * 46) Wray, Matt. "A Blast from the Past: Preserving and Interpreting the Atomic Age." American Quarterly 58, no. 2 (June 2006): 467-483.
 * 47) Young, Bradley J. "Silver, Discontent, and Conspiracy: The Ideology of the Western Republican Revolt of 1890-1901." Pacific Historical Review 64, no. 2 (1995): 243-65. doi:10.2307/3640897.
 * 48) Young, Walker R. “Significance of Boulder Canyon Project.” Civil Engineering 5 (1935): 70.
 * 49) Zanetell, Dave. “U.S. 93 Hoover Dam Bypass Final Environmental Impact Statement.” U.S Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration (2001): ES-4.
 * 50) Zanjani, Sally Springmeyer. "A Theory of Critical Realignment: The Nevada Example, 1892-1908." Pacific Historical Review 48, no. 2 (1979): 259-80. doi:10.2307/3639275.

Books
http://digital.library.unlv.edu/boomtown/counties/esmaralda.php#goldfield
 * 1) Andrew J. Dunar and Dennis McBride, Building Hoover Dam. (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1993), 100-108.
 * 2) Ardus, Mathew O. Wild Horses and Their Management by the Bureau of Land Management. New York: Nova Science, 2009.
 * 3) Babcock & Wilcox Company, Hoover Dam. (New York: Babcock & Wilcox Company, 1933), 6-9.
 * 4) Bannon, John Francis. The Spanish Borderlands Frontier 1513-1821. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1974.
 * 5) Bengston, Ginny. Northern Paiute and Western Shoshone Land Use in Northern Nevada Reno: SWCA Environmental Consultants, 2003.
 * 6) Bolton, Herbert Eugene. Spanish Exploration in the Southwest 1542-1706. New York: Barnes & Noble Inc., 1946.
 * 7) Bowers, Martha H. and Hans Muessig. History of Central Nevada: An Overview of the Battle Mountain District. Reno: Nevada State Office of the Bureau of Land Management, 1982.
 * 8) Bowers, Michael W. The Sagebrush State, 3rd Edition: Nevada's History, Government, and Politics. Reno: University of Nevada University Press, 2006.
 * 9) Cathy H.C. Hsu, Legalized Casino Gaming in the United States: The Economic and Social Impact. New York: The Haworth Press, 2013.
 * 10) Davies, Richard. The Main Event. Reno: University of Nevada Press. 2010.
 * 11) Davis, Sam P. "The History of Nevada", 2 vols. Reno, NV: Elms Pub., 1913.
 * 12) De Steiguer, J Edward. Wild Horses of the West: History and Politics of America's Mustangs. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2011.
 * 13) Dixon, Kelly J. Boomtown Saloons: Archaeology and History in Virginia City. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2005.
 * 14) Driggs,Don. Nevada Politics and Government, Conservatism in an Open Society. Lawrence, NE: University of Nebraska Press. 1996.
 * 15) Dobie, J. Frank, and Charles Banks. Wilson. The Mustangs. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1952.
 * 16) Dufour, Charles L. The Mexican War; a Compact History, 1846-1848. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1968.
 * 17) Dunar, Andrew J. and Dennis Mcbride. Building Hoover Dam: An Oral History of the Great Depression. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1993.
 * 18) Dunn, Helen. Indians of Nevada: Volume 1. Carson City: Nevada Department of Education, 1973.
 * 19) Dunn, Helen. Indians of Nevada: Volume 2. Carson City: Nevada Department of Education, 1973.
 * 20) Dunn, Helen. Indians of Nevada: Volume 3. Carson City: Nevada Department of Education, 1973.
 * 21) Dunn, Helen. Indians of Nevada: Volume 4. Carson City: Nevada Department of Education, 1973.
 * 22) Fehrer, Terrence R. and F. G. Gosling. Battlefield of the Cold War: The Nevada Test Site, Volume 1: Atmospheric Nuclear Weapons Testing 1951-1963. United States: Department of Energy, 2006.
 * Fox, William L. In the Desert of Desire: Las Vegas and the Culture of Spectacle. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2005.
 * 1) Fehrer, Terrence R. and F. G. Gosling. Origins of the Nevada Test Site. United States: Department of Energy, 2000.
 * 2) Frohmberg, Eric, Robert Goble, Virginia Sanchez, and Dianne Quigley.The assessment of radiation exposures in Native American communities from nuclear weapons testing in Nevada. Risk Analysis 20, no. 1 (2000): 101-112.
 * 3) Fuller, John D. P. The Movement For The Acquisition Of All Mexico. New York, NY: Da Capo Press, 1936.
 * 4) Haines, Francis. Horses in America. New York: Crowell, 1971. 185-195
 * 5) Hitzik, Michael. Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century. New York: Free Press, 2010.
 * 6) Hulse, James W. The Silver State, 3rd Edition: Nevada's Heritage Reinterpreted. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2004.
 * 7) Hulse, James W. Nevada, The Silver State: Nevada's Heritage Reinterpreted. 3rd ed. Reno, Nevada: University of Nevada Press, 2004.
 * 8) Hulse, James W. The Silver State, 3rd Edition: Nevada's Heritage Reinterpreted. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2004.
 * 9) Jacobsen, Annie . Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base .New York City Back Bay Books, 2012
 * 10) James, Ronald M. and Elizabeth Raymond. Comstock Women: The Making of a Mining Community. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1998.
 * 11) James, Ronald M. The Roar and the Silence: A History of Virginia City and the Comstock Lode. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1999.
 * 12) James, Ronald M. and Kenneth H. Fliess. "Women of the Mining West: Virginia City Revisited". In Comstock Women: The Making of A Mining Community, edited by Ronald M. James and Elizabeth C. Raymond, 17-39. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1998.
 * 13) Skolnick Jerome H. “A Zoning Merit Model for Casino Gambling” 1, no. 1 (1984): 49, http://journals1.scholarsportal.info.subzero.lib.uoguelph.ca/pdf/00027162/v474i0001/48_azmmfcg.xml
 * 14) Johnson, David Alan. Founding the Far West California, Oregon, and Nevada, 1840-1890. Berkley: University of California Press, 1992.
 * 15) Jones, Karen and John Wills American West: Competing Visions. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009. eBook Collection (EBSCOhost). EBSCOhost.
 * 16) Kolvet, Renee Corona, and Victoria Ford. The Civilian Conservation Corps in Nevada: From Boys to Men. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2006.
 * 17) Las Vegas and the Railroad: Southern Nevada the Boomtown Years, University of Nevada Libraries, the coming of the railroad. https://muse-jhu-edu.subzero.lib.uoguelph.ca/article/431098/pdf
 * 18) Laxalt, Robert. Nevada: A Bicentennial History. Nevada: University of Nevada Press, 1991.
 * 19) Mapp, Paul W. The Elusive West And The Contest for Empire 1716-1763. North Carolina: University of North Carlonia Press, 2011.
 * 20) McCracken, Robert D. Las Vegas: The Great American Playground. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1997.
 * 21) Meed, Douglas V. The Mexican War, 1846-1848. New York: Routledge, 2003.
 * 22) Powell, Miles A. “Cities Sagebrush, and Solitude” Urbanization and Cultural Conflict in the Great Basin 85, no. 4 (2016): 634, http://phr.ucpress.edu/content/85/4/634
 * Moe, Al W., Nevada's Golden Age of Gambling: The Casinos 1931-1981. Arizona: Create-Space Independent Publishing Platform, 2012.
 * 1) Moehring, Eugene and Micheal S. Green. Las Vegas: A Centennial History. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2005.
 * 2) Moreno, Richard. A Short History of Carson City. Nevada: University of Nevada Press, 2011.
 * 3) Nevada, “The Almanac of American Politics” 1, no.1 (2014): paragraph 2, https://www.proquest.com/docview/1651174495
 * 4) Paher, Stanely W. Nevada Ghost Towns and Mining Camps. Berkeley: Nevada Publications, 1970.
 * 5) Reid, James. Uncovering Nevada's Past. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2004.
 * 6) Reid, John B. and Ronald M. James. Uncovering Nevada’s Past: A Primary Source history of the Silver State. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2004.
 * 7) Rothman, Hal. The Grit Beneath the Glitter: Tales From the Real Las Vegas. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.
 * 8) Rothman, Hal. The Making of Modern Nevada. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2010.
 * 9) Elliot, Russel. R and Williams D. Rowley, History of Nevada. University of Nebraska Press, 1987.
 * 10) Ravage, John W. Black Pioneers: Images of the Black Experience on the North American Frontier. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1997, 68.
 * 11) Ryden, Hope. America's Last Wild Horses. New York: E. P.Dutton &, 1970.
 * 12) Stevens, Joseph E. Hoover Dam: An American Adventure. Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1988.
 * 13) Southern Nevada: The Boomtown Years (University of Nevada: Digital Collections, 2009)
 * 1) Teaford, Jon C. The Rise of the States: Evolution of American State Government. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
 * 2) Thomas, Heather Smith. The Wild Horse Controversy. South Brunswick: A. S. Barnes, 1979. 37-54
 * 3) The Historical Landscape of Nevada”: Development, Water, and the Natural Environment: Las Vegas: University Libraries Digital Collections. http://digital.library.unlv.edu/collections/historic-landscape
 * 4) Titus, A. Costandina. Bombs in the backyard: atomic testing and American politics. No. 25. University of Nevada Press, 2001.
 * 5) Trenton, Patricia and Patrick T. Houlihan. Native Americans. New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc., 1989.
 * 6) Work Projects Administration. Nevada: A Guide to the Silver State. Portland: Binfords & Mort, 1957.
 * 7) Young, Significance of Boulder Canyon Project, 70. United States Bureau of the Census, Fifteenth census of the United States: 1930: Unemployment, Volume 1. (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1931), 609.

Websites

 * 1) Bawany, Afsha. “Selling Las Vegas” UNLV News Centre, June 7, 2011, Accessed November 10, 2016, https://www.unlv.edu/news/article/selling-las-vegas.
 * 2) Bennet, Dana R., and Mona Reno. "Nevada Suffrage Timeline." Nevada Suffrage Centennial. Accessed November 06, 2016.https://suffrage100nv.org/about/suffrage-timeline/.
 * 3) Boyer, Paul. "Manifest Destiny." The Oxford Companion to United States History Accessed November 10, 2016. Doi: 10.1093/acref/9780195082098.001.0001.
 * 4) Boyer, Paul. "Mexican War." The Oxford Companion to United States History Accessed November 10, 2016. Doi: 10.1093/acref/9780195082098.001.0001.
 * 5) Donahue, Debra L. "Western grazing: the capture of grass, ground, and government." Environmental Law, Fall 2005, 721+. Academic OneFile (accessed November 13, 2016) http://go.galegroup.com.subzero.lib.uoguelph.ca/ps/i.do?p=AONE&sw=w&u=guel77241&v=2.1&it=r&id=GALE%7CA141802020&asid=1f13ad0050d72ac24a994f69b85c8768.
 * 6) Edwards, Jerome. “Nevada Statehood,” Online Nevada Encyclopedia, Last modified October 21, 2009, http://www.onlinenevada.org/articles/nevada-statehood.
 * 7) Finkelman, Paul. “Thirteenth Amendment” Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass. Accessed November 12, 2016. Doi: 10.1093/acref/9780195167771.001.0001.
 * 8) "Miss Anne Martin, of Reno, Nevada, Legislative Chairman of the National Woman's Party on Behalf of the National Suffrage Amendment." The Library of Congress. Accessed November 28, 2016. https://www.loc.gov/resource/mnwp.275006/.#Nevada Women's History.
 * 9) "Illuminating Reno's Divorce Industry | Reno Divorce History." Reno Divorce History. Accessed November 3, 2016. http://renodivorcehistory.org/.
 * 10) "Women's Biographies: Nellie Michele Davis." Nevada Women's History. Accessed November 07, 2016. http://www.unr.edu/nwhp/bios/women/davis.htm.
 * 11) Pfaff, Christine. "Safeguarding Hoover Dam During World War II: Part I," National Archives 35, no.2, https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2003/summer/hoover-dam-1.html.

Films
“The Mexican-American War,” Films Media Group, 2008.