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Tales of Near-Future Las Vegas
Las Vegas is considered a modern icon of excess. It offers every imaginable extreme of greed, pleasure, and despair, all supported by technology that enhances fantasy and allows residents and visitors alike to forget reality and responsibility.... more

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Reno private investigator Jack Ross has been in the desert for six months when his respite is interrupted by television reporter Miranda Santee.... more

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How Nevada Began
Nevada entered the Union in 1864 as the thirty-sixth state, a mere two decades after John Charles Frémont and his party undertook the first Euro-American exploration of the Great Basin.... more

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Essays on Region, History, and Practice
This collection of eight essays examines the health, disease, and medical care of the American West—an area flanked by the Rocky Mountains, Sierra Nevada, and Cascade Mountains.... more

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Photography by Robert Dawson, Peter Goin,
Essays by Mary Webb
In A Doubtful River, photographers Robert Dawson and Peter Goin and essayist Mary Webb explore the ways the Truckee's multifarious users relate to the region’... more

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Loss and Renewal in a Land of Fire
David Strohmaier’s long career as a firefighter has given him intimate knowledge of wildfire and its complex role in the natural world of the American West.... more
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