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- catalog abstract ""At once examining and experiencing Nevada, Thomson finds its people, its landscape, and the unexpected questions it inspires equally provocative. He shows us the historical Nevada - a classic Wild West, attracting Spanish missionaries, Mormons, uprooted Native Americans, explorers, and silver miners - and the contemporary influx of cultists, druggies, survivalists, and fortune hunters whose quests lead directly to the gaming table."--Jacket. "We see Nevada as a place of no-holds-barred experimentation, both social (gambling, prostitution, easy divorce, no taxes) and scientific (nuclear testing and storage of nuclear waste). We see suburbanites rubbing shoulders with sybarites; the natural beauty of Lake Tahoe, shadowed by the financial edifice of tourism; criminals, entertainers, and hotel impresarios sharing dreams of glory (and the memory of Bugsy Siegel and Frank Sinatra)."--BOOK JACKET. "In Nevada is a revelation of the gambler's mix of hope and anxiety, of the isolation and closeness, the beauty and banality, the fact and fancy, at the heart of the state - and the state of mind - of Nevada."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11351318.
- catalog coverage "Nevada Description and travel.".
- catalog coverage "Nevada History.".
- catalog coverage "Nevada Social life and customs.".
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""At once examining and experiencing Nevada, Thomson finds its people, its landscape, and the unexpected questions it inspires equally provocative. He shows us the historical Nevada - a classic Wild West, attracting Spanish missionaries, Mormons, uprooted Native Americans, explorers, and silver miners - and the contemporary influx of cultists, druggies, survivalists, and fortune hunters whose quests lead directly to the gaming table."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""We see Nevada as a place of no-holds-barred experimentation, both social (gambling, prostitution, easy divorce, no taxes) and scientific (nuclear testing and storage of nuclear waste). We see suburbanites rubbing shoulders with sybarites; the natural beauty of Lake Tahoe, shadowed by the financial edifice of tourism; criminals, entertainers, and hotel impresarios sharing dreams of glory (and the memory of Bugsy Siegel and Frank Sinatra)."--BOOK JACKET. "In Nevada is a revelation of the gambler's mix of hope and anxiety, of the isolation and closeness, the beauty and banality, the fact and fancy, at the heart of the state - and the state of mind - of Nevada."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Prospects: Travels in the remote and northern parts of the state that also uncover the history of Nevada -- Suspects: Historic developments in southern Nevada--at Las Vegas and the Test Site--with reflections on degrees of gambling -- Collects: Prayers for Nevada, its present and future.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 330 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "In Nevada.".
- catalog identifier "0679454861 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "In Nevada.".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : A.A. Knopf,".
- catalog relation "In Nevada.".
- catalog spatial "Nevada Description and travel.".
- catalog spatial "Nevada History.".
- catalog spatial "Nevada Social life and customs.".
- catalog subject "979.3 21".
- catalog subject "F845 .T48 1999".
- catalog subject "Thomson, David, 1941- Journeys Nevada.".
- catalog subject "Thomson, David, 1941- Travel Nevada.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Prospects: Travels in the remote and northern parts of the state that also uncover the history of Nevada -- Suspects: Historic developments in southern Nevada--at Las Vegas and the Test Site--with reflections on degrees of gambling -- Collects: Prayers for Nevada, its present and future.".
- catalog title "In Nevada : the land, the people, God, and chance / David Thomson ; original photographs by Lucy Gray.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".