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Old Heart Of Nevada: Ghost Towns And Mining Camps Of Elko County
Shawn Hall
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Description for Old Heart Of Nevada: Ghost Towns And Mining Camps Of Elko County
Paperback. This text is a guide to the historic sites in the colourful northeast of Nevada. Divided into five easily accessible regions of Elko County, it lists the historic sites within each region, providing directions to reach them, and offers a brief history of each site. Num Pages: 280 pages, 115 b&w photographs, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBWN; HBTB; HD; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 204 x 21. Weight in Grams: 780.
Elko County, in the old heart of Nevada, is rich in historic sites, many of them hitherto uncharted and some verging on disappearing. For the first time, historian Shawn Hall identifies and locates the ghost towns and old mining camps of Elko County and recounts their colorful histories. Following a guidebook format, Hall divides the county into five easily accessible regions, then lists the historic sites within each region and provides directions to reach them. He offers a brief history of each site as well as a description of its extant structures and their present condition. The result is a ... Read more
Elko County, in the old heart of Nevada, is rich in historic sites, many of them hitherto uncharted and some verging on disappearing. For the first time, historian Shawn Hall identifies and locates the ghost towns and old mining camps of Elko County and recounts their colorful histories. Following a guidebook format, Hall divides the county into five easily accessible regions, then lists the historic sites within each region and provides directions to reach them. He offers a brief history of each site as well as a description of its extant structures and their present condition. The result is a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Nevada Press
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Reno, United States
ISBN
9780874172959
SKU
V9780874172959
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Ref
99-15
About Shawn Hall
Shawn Hall has devoted his career to exploring and recording historic sites, ghost towns, and abandoned mining camps in each of Nevada's seventeen counties. Hall is director of the Tonopah Historic Mining Park in Nye County, Nevada.
Reviews for Old Heart Of Nevada: Ghost Towns And Mining Camps Of Elko County
“Old Heart of Nevada will be invaluable to those interested in the history of Elko County . . .” —Eric Clements, Journal of the West, January 2000 “Among other topics, the author discusses name origins, postal evolution, educational history, the telegraph and telephone, significance in the history of American Indians, social life, law enforcement, newspapers, and fire and ... Read more