Recommended Reading

If you would like to learn more about Nevada at the turn of the last century, we recommend the following:

History and Biography:
George Wingfield: Owner and Operator of Nevada, C. Elizabeth Raymond
Goldfield: Last Rush on the Western Frontier, Sally Zanjani
History of Nevada, Russell R. Elliott
The Ignoble Conspiracy: Radicalism On Trial In Nevada, Sally Zanjani and Guy Louis Rocha
Key Pittman: The Tragedy of a Senate Insider, Betty Glad
The Nevada Adventure, James W. Hulse
Nevada's Twentieth Century Mining Boom, Russell R.Elliott
Pat McCarran, Political Boss of Nevada, Jerome E. Edwards
Reclaiming the Arid West: the Career of Francis G. Newlands, William D. Rowley
Turn this Water into Gold: The Story of the Newlands Project, John M. Townley
The Unspiked Rail: Memoir of a Nevada Rebel, Sally Zanjani

First Person Accounts:
A Lady in Boomtown: Miners and Manners on the Nevada Frontier, Mrs. Hugh Brown
Letters From the Frontier: Correspondence of Tasker Oddie, 1898-1902, edited by William A. Douglass and Robert A. Nylen
Life of an Ordinary Woman, Anne Ellis
Mining Camp Days, Emil W. Billeb

Guides:
Preserving the Glory Days: Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of Nye County, Nevada, Shawn Hall
Romancing Nevada's Past: Ghost Towns and Historic Sites of Eureka, Lander, and White Pine Counties, Shawn Hall
Old Heart of Nevada: Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of Elko County, Shawn Hall

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