Nevada Books

John Kirgan served in the Mexican War, participated in California constitutional convention, then followed mining excitement to Virginia City. He arrived in Bodie in 1877, where he served as constable, jailer and deputy sheriff during the boom years. Kirgan’s life was an odyssey of the American West. Foreword by Stanley Paher, 15 color photographs by Heidi Vetter. Color maps of Bodie and the surrounding area, 176 pages, 75 illus., maps, notes, index. (Published by Nevada Publications ~ Shipped by publisher.)

History

• A Century of Enthusiasm - Midas Nevada, 1907 - 2007

• A Man of His Word - The Life and Times of Nevada's Senator William J. Raggio

• Alice's Drive - Republishing 'Veil, Duster, and Tire Iron'

• Aurora - Nevada's Ghost City of the Dawn

• Bodie: The Mines are Looking Well - A History of the Bodie Mining District, Mono County, California

• Bodie’s Boss Lawman - The Odyssey of Constable John F. Kirgan

• Boot Hill - The Pioche Cemetery and the Story of the Pioche Boom

• Boulder City Nevada

• Breaks, Brains & Balls - The Story of Nevada's Fabulous Mustang Ranch

• California: Mapping the Golden State through History - Rare and Unusual Maps from the Library of Congress

• Death Valley Ghost Town - Greenwater California

• Dempsey In Nevada

• Elko County

• Emigrant Trails - A History and Guide to the Emigrant Routes from Central Nevada to the Crossing of the Sierra

• Full Circle

• Ghosts of the Glory Trail - Intimate glimpses into the past and present of 275 western ghost towns

• Golden Dreams Down Dusty Roads - My Adventures with Billy Varga, "The Last Hard Rock Miner"

• It Happened in Las Vegas - Remarkable Events that Shaped History

• It Happened In Nevada, 2nd - Remarkable Events that Shaped History

• Las Vegas, As It Began, As It Grew

• Legacy of Silver and Saddles

• Mark Twain in Virginia City, Nevada

• Martha and the Doctor - A frontier family in central Nevada

• More than Petticoats - Remarkable Nevada Women

• More than Petticoats: Remarkable Nevada Women

• My Memories of the Comstock - An Eye-Witness Account of the Richest Place on Earth

• Mysteries and Legends of Nevada - True Stories of the Unsolved and Unexplained

• Nevada - The Great Rotten Borough, 1859-1964

• Nevada Curiosities - Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff

• Nevada Ghost Towns & Mining Camps

• Nevada, the Great Rotten Borough

• Nevada’s Golden Age of Gambling

• Roughing It (Mark Twain Library)

• Silver Peak - Never a Ghost Town

• Slippery Gulch - A Guide to Gold Hill Nevada

• Slot Machines - America's Favorite Gaming Device

• The Divorce Seekers - A Photo Memoir of a Nevada Dude Wrangler

• The Lincoln Highway: Nevada

• The Roots of Reno

• Virginia City, Silver Region of the Comstock Lode

Featured Title

Nevada’s Golden Age of Gambling

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...
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