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Spring 2001 through Winter 2001


Nevada Historical Society Quarterly
WINTER 2001, Volume  44, Number 4

313    Labor Strife in Las Vegas: The Union Pacific Shopmen’s Strike of 1922 
           by ERIC NYSTROM


333    The 1873 Fire at Hamilton, Nevada: Finding the Culprit
           by JOHN P. MARSCHALL

353    Beyond the Margins: Abortive Farming Endeavors on Submarginal Land in Northwestern Nevada
           by MARSHALL E. BOWEN

270    NOTES AND DOCUMENTS -  Water: Life in a Dry Land
           by PETER L. BANDURRAGA

Book Reviews

387    The Personal Writings of Eliza Roxcy Snow, edited by Maureen Ursenbach Beecher (Logan: Utah State University Press, 2000) and Mormon Healer and Folk Poet: Susannah Fowler’s Life of Unselfish Usefulness, by Margaret K. Brady (Logan: Utah State University Press, 2000)  Review by Jesse L. Embry

389    Out of the Woods: Essays in Environmental History, edited by Char Miller and Hal Rothman (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997) Review by Mark Fiege

391    The Literary West: An Anthology of Western American Literature, edited by Thomas J. Lyon ( New York: Oxford University Press, 1999) Review by Ann Ronald

393    The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction, by Linda Gordon (Harvard University Press,1999) Review by Fran Campbell

395    Frontiers of Historical Imagination: Narrating the European Conquest in Native America, 1890-1990, by Kerwin Lee Klein (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997) Review by Don Franklin Shepherd

398    Distant Horizon: Documents from the Nineteenth-Century American West, edited by Gary Noy (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1999)  Review by Jeffrey M. Kintop


Nevada Historical Society Quarterly
FALL 2001, Volume  44, Number 3

193    Professor Wilbur S. Shepperson
           by WILLIAM D. ROWLEY

196    Escape from Zion: The United States Army Escort of Mormon Apostates, 1859
           by POLLY AIRD

238    Hacienda Airlines: A First-Class Airline for Coach-Class Passengers
           by DANIEL BUBB

250    The Movie Star Nevada Never Claimed
           by DENNIS MYERS and GUY LOUIS ROCHA

270    NOTES AND DOCUMENTS -  Bethel AME: The Oldest Surviving African-American Church in Nevada 
            by Mella Rothwell Harmon 

285     CUMULATIVE INDEX. VOLUME 43

Book Reviews

295     Fawn McKay Brodie: A Biographer’s Life, by Newell G. Bringhurst (Norman: University of Oklahoma, 1999) Review by Thomas G. Alexander

297     Sojourner in the Promised Land: Forty Years among the Mormons, by Jan Shipps  (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000) Review by Richard Lyman Bushman

300     Acts of God: The Natural History of Natural Disaster in America, by Ted Steinberg (Oxford University Press, 2000) Review by William D. Rowley

301     Super Casino: Inside the “New” Las Vegas, by Pete Earley (New York: Bantam Books,  2000) Review by David G. Schwartz

304     The Black West: A Documentary and Pictorial History of the African American Role in the Westward Expansion of the United States, by William Loren Katz (New York: A Touchstone Book, 1998) Review by Earnest N. Bracey

306     Speaking through the Aspens: Baaaasque Tree Carvings in California and Nevada, by Joxe Mallea-Olaetxe (Reno and Las Vegas: University of Nevada Press, 2000)  Review by Javi Cillero Goiriastuena


Nevada Historical Society Quarterly
SUMMER 2001, Volume  44, Number 2

  109     C. L. R. James in Nevada
              by DENNIS DWORKIN

133       Ruby Duncan, Operation Life, and Welfare Rights in Nevada by ERNEST N. BRACEY, Ph.D.

147       Peruvian Sheepherders in the Western United State – Will Thy Replace the Basques as the Dominant Ethnic Group in the Sheep Industry?  by PERICLES LEON

166       NOTES AND DOCUMENTS -  Ridin’, Ropin’, and Rodeoin': Champion Cowgirls of Professional Rodeo, 1930-1945  by Andrea Mugnier

Book Reviews

175       The Land of My Fathers: A Son’s Return to the Basque Country, by Robert Laxalt (Reno and Las Vegas: University of Nevada Press, 1999) and Time of the Rabies, by Robert Laxalt (Reno and Las Vegas: University of Nevada Press, 2000) Review by David Rio

178       Covered Wagon Women: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1875-1883, Vol. 10, edited by Kenneth L. Holmes.  Introduction by Elliott West (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000) Review by Doris D. Dwyer

180       Home Away from Home: A History of Basque Boardinghouses, by Jeronimaa Echeverria (Reno and Las Vegas: University of Nevada Press, 1999) Review by Javi Cillero Goiriastuena

182       A Fateful Time: The Background and Legislative History of the Indian Reorganization Act, by Elmer R.Rusco (Reno and Las Vegas: University of Nevada Press, 2000) Review by Kenneth Philp

184       Liberace: An American Boy, by Darden Asbury Pyron (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999) Review by Chris Rasmussen

187       The Anointed One: An Inside Look at Nevada Politics, by Jon Ralston (Las Vegas: Huntington Press, 2000)  Review by Michael Green


Nevada Historical Society Quarterly
SPRING 2001 , Volume  44, Number 1
 

3          Only in Nevada: American’s Unique Experiment with Legalized Sports Gambling
            by RICHARD O. DAVIES

20        Overland  from San Francisco to Halifax in 89 Days of Adventure, Apprehension, and Surprise: Royal Navy Lieutenant Edmund Hope Verney’s 1865 Letters and Narrative
edited and introduction by DWIGHT SMITH

78        NOTES AND DOCUMENTS -  Yerington: Millennium Bound
             by STEVEN W. PELLEGRINI

Book Reviews

85         Rush for Riches :Gold Fever and the Making of California, by J.S. Holliday (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1999) and Gold: The California Story, by Mary Hill (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1999) Review by Ronald M. James

87         Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong,  by James W. Loewen (New York: New Press, 1999) and America’s National Historic Trails, by Kathleen Ann Cordes (Norma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999) Review by Andrew Kirk

90         The Rise of the Biggest Little City: An Encyclopedic History of Reno Gaming, 1931-1981, by Dwayne Kling (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2000) Review by Jerome E. Edwards

91         First 100: Portraits of the Men and Women Who Shaped Las Vegas, edited by A.D. Hopkins and K.J. Evans (Las Vegas: Huntington Press, 1999) Review by Candace C. Kant

92         Chinese to Steal: Nevada’s Gaming Control System in the Megaresort Age, by Jeff Burbank and K.J. Evans (Reno : University of Nevada Press, 2000) Review by William N. Thompson

96         Race, Police, and the Making of a Political Identity: Mexican Americans and the Los Angeles Police Department, 1900-1945, by Edward J. Escobar (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1999)  Review by Randall G. Shelden

98         Black Mass: The Irish Mob, the FBI, and a Devil’s Deal, by Dick Lehr and Gerard O’Neill
(New York: Public Affairs, 2000) and The Merger: Conglomeration of International Organized Crime, by Jeffrey Robinson (Woodstock and New York: The Overlook Press, 2000) and Red Mafia: How the Russian Mob Has Invaded America, by Robert I. Friedman (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2000) Review by Alan Balboni