A. D. Hopkins

"A gritty but tender story about adolescence and racism set in the hills of western Virginia at the end of the Eisenhower years"--

The Boys Who Woke Up Early

Joan Burkhart Whitely

The Las Vegas we know was conceived -- if anybody really conceived it -- in 1931, when Nevada liberalised its divorce and gambling laws, which would ultimately transform the city into America's playground for grown-ups. It was also the year an unprecedented engineering project began, that would turn the Colorado River from a wild killer stream to a wild reservoir that waters not only California vegetables but also sprawling Las Vegas suburbs. From 1905 to 1931, Las Vegas was still a tiny oasis in a big, dangerous desert. Its isolated people made their own swamp coolers, their own entertainment and sometimes their own whiskey. The author, Joan Burkhardt Whitely, enlisted older Las Vegans to help capture the memories of a Mojave Mayberry where neighbours took care of each other, not merely because no one else would, but because it was their hometown, and they cared.

1905-1931: Before the Future Found Us

Young Las Vegas

K. J. Evans

Profiles 100 people who played an important role in the creation of Las Vegas, Nevada, from the first Mormon settlers in the early 1900s to the business entrepreneurs of the last years of the 20th century.

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