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....
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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....
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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....
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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....
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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...
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David Strohmaiers long career as a firefighter has given him intimate knowledge of wildfire and its complex role in the natural world of the American West....
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