Silver State: Nevada's Heritage Reinterpreted Book

	Preface
1	The Space and the Natural Setting	1
2	Native Americans	18
3	The First Explorers	33
4	Settlers on the Move, 1841-1850	43
5	Three Cultures in Collision, 1850-1860	57
6	The Early Comstock and Statehood	74
7	Colorado Steamboats, Eldorado Canyon, and the Second Wave of Mormons	91
8	The Era of the Boomtowns, 1865-1878	101
9	The Railroads and Their Towns	114
10	The Livestock Oligarchy and the Agricultural Frontier	133
11	Crusaders for Silver, Indians' and Women's Rights	149
12	The Second Mining Boom	162
13	The Second Era of Railroad Building	180
14	New Urban Experiments: Reno and Las Vegas Since 1940	203
15	Land and Water: Changing Policies and Uses	223
16	Nevada Governments: Federal, State, and Local	242
17	Gambling and Tourism	261
18	Community Building in the Silver State	277
19	The Struggle for Equal Rights	297
20	The Twelve Northern Counties	313
21	The Five Southern Counties	333
	Selected Bibliography	351
	Index	363