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- catalog abstract "This lively, highly informative study covers the long and colorful past of Hispanics in Nevada, analyzes their growing role in the state's present - especially in the booming urban South - and offers some projections for their future, as well as for the future of research in this field. We discover that the contributions of Hispanics to Nevada are as diverse as the cultures and personalities of the various Spanish-speaking peoples who settled here, and that their importance as one of the state's fastest growing ethnic groups is no less interesting than their colorful past.".
- catalog contributor b10395677.
- catalog coverage "Clark County (Nev.) History.".
- catalog coverage "Nevada History, Local.".
- catalog coverage "Washoe County (Nev.) History.".
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description "1. Early Spanish and Mexican Exploration, 1540-1848 -- 2. The Lure of Mining in Nevada -- 3. The Settlement of Nevada's Wild West -- 4. The Building of the Railroads -- 5. Discrimination, Biased Reporting, and the Creation of a Negative Stereotype -- 6. Braceros and Migrant Farmworkers in the Moapa Valley -- 7. The Growth of Clark and Washoe Counties -- 8. Nevada's Hispanic Immigrants -- 9. The Chicano Movement, Hispanic Organizations, and Activism in the 1960s and 1970s -- 10. The Latin Chamber of Commerce and Activism in the 1980s and 1990s -- 11. Recent Hispanic Population Trends, Economic and Social Issues, and Politics.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [234]-249) and index.".
- catalog description "This lively, highly informative study covers the long and colorful past of Hispanics in Nevada, analyzes their growing role in the state's present - especially in the booming urban South - and offers some projections for their future, as well as for the future of research in this field. We discover that the contributions of Hispanics to Nevada are as diverse as the cultures and personalities of the various Spanish-speaking peoples who settled here, and that their importance as one of the state's fastest growing ethnic groups is no less interesting than their colorful past.".
- catalog extent "xvii, 262 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "History of Hispanics in southern Nevada.".
- catalog identifier "0874172918 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "History of Hispanics in southern Nevada.".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Reno, NV : University of Nevada Press,".
- catalog relation "History of Hispanics in southern Nevada.".
- catalog spatial "Clark County (Nev.) History.".
- catalog spatial "Nevada Clark County".
- catalog spatial "Nevada History, Local.".
- catalog spatial "Nevada Washoe County".
- catalog spatial "Nevada".
- catalog spatial "Washoe County (Nev.) History.".
- catalog subject "979.3/1300468073 21".
- catalog subject "F850.S75 M57 1997".
- catalog subject "Hispanic Americans Nevada Clark County History.".
- catalog subject "Hispanic Americans Nevada History.".
- catalog subject "Hispanic Americans Nevada Washoe County History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Early Spanish and Mexican Exploration, 1540-1848 -- 2. The Lure of Mining in Nevada -- 3. The Settlement of Nevada's Wild West -- 4. The Building of the Railroads -- 5. Discrimination, Biased Reporting, and the Creation of a Negative Stereotype -- 6. Braceros and Migrant Farmworkers in the Moapa Valley -- 7. The Growth of Clark and Washoe Counties -- 8. Nevada's Hispanic Immigrants -- 9. The Chicano Movement, Hispanic Organizations, and Activism in the 1960s and 1970s -- 10. The Latin Chamber of Commerce and Activism in the 1980s and 1990s -- 11. Recent Hispanic Population Trends, Economic and Social Issues, and Politics.".
- catalog title "A history of Hispanics in southern Nevada / M.L. Miranda.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "Local history. fast".
- catalog type "text".