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Nevada’s Golden Age of Gambling
by Al W. Moe
By the 1950's, Harold’s Club of Reno was the most successful casino in the world, although there were large, successful, illegal clubs operating in Florida, Arkansas, Ohio and Kentucky. Meyer Lansky had a financial interest in several of the most successful illegal clubs in the United States, and he and his mob of friends would soon take their income from new clubs starting in Las Vegas. True stories of how the Mob as well as Bill Harrah, "Pappy" Smith of Harold’s Club, Wilbur Clark and Moe Dalitz of the Desert Inn, and Howard Hughes operated their casinos, plus dozens of vintage photos are right here in "Nevada's Golden Age of Gambling." (Published by Al Moe in 2011 ~ Shipped by publisher.)
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History
• Aurora - Nevada's Ghost City of the Dawn • Boot Hill - The Pioche Cemetery and the Story of the Pioche Boom • Emigrant Trails - A History and Guide to the Emigrant Routes from Central Nevada to the Crossing of the Sierra • Nevada - The Great Rotten Borough, 1859-1964
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Featured Title
The City Of Trembling Leaves (Western Literature Series)
Born in 1909, Walter Van Tilburg Clark ranks as one of Nevada's most distinguished literary figures in the twentieth century, as well as a leading interpreter of the American West. With such highly acclaimed novels as The Ox-Bow Incident, The Track of the Cat, and The City of Trembling Leaves, Clark...
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