A Jewish, Latvian-born tailor patented the design for the world-famous Levis blue jeans. An industrious Jewish casino pioneer with a dubious past played an important role in the development of Las Vegas....
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From the early 1870s until his death in 1902, John Mackay was among the richest men in the world, and he was without doubt the wealthiest man to emerge from Nevada’s fabulous Comstock Lode....
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The first biography of an eighteenth-century Basque immigrant who became a silver miner, a cattle rancher, and commander of the cavalry in Sonora, Mexico....
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This engrossing new novel by acclaimed author Susan Lang continues the saga of Ruth Farley, the fiercely independent young woman who was the protagonist of Small Rocks Rising, published by the University of Nevada Press in 2002....
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