Nevada Books

Times were exciting in 1860s Aurora: "Four men will be hung in half an hour. All quiet and orderly. . . ." read the telegram to the governor. Hang the men they did, along with orders to a few others to get out of town or suffer the same fate. This lively, authoritative account of the ghost city is illustrated by numerous excellent photographs, maps and engravings. 124 pages, 7 x 10. (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

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Smoky the Cow Horse

In language that truly evokes the Wild West, Smoky the Cowhorse brings to life one horse's story, from his birth on the open range through his "breaking" to Smoky's "other" lives as an outlaw rodeo star and saddle horse....

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