Nevada: A Guide to the Silver StateUS History Publishers |
Contents
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MINING AND MINING JARGON | 55 |
RANCHING AND STOCK GROWING | 64 |
STOCK JARGON | 75 |
THE ARTS | 97 |
SPORT AND RECREATION | 117 |
TOUR 4 | 172 |
St George UtahGlendaleLas VegasBaker Calif | 179 |
Susanville Calif RenoCarson CityMindenGarden | 192 |
TOUR 4A Junction with US 395YeringtonJunction US 95 State 3 | 209 |
TOUR 5A Las VegasBoulder CityBoulder Dam US 46693 | 237 |
TOUR 8 | 269 |
CHRONOLOGY | 289 |
SUPPLEMENTARY READING LIST OF NEVADA BOOKS | 297 |
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Page 49 - Having behind us the producing masses of this nation and the world, supported by the commercial interests, the laboring interests, and the toilers everywhere, we will answer their demand for a gold standard by saying to them : You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
Page 49 - There are two ideas of government. There are those who believe that, if you will only legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, their prosperity will leak through on those below. The Democratic idea, however, has been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous, their prosperity will find its way up through every class which rests upon them.
Page 49 - You come to us and tell us that the great cities are in favor of the gold standard; we reply that the great cities rest upon our broad and fertile prairies. Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.
Page 83 - Alf Doten was just placing the neck of the ginger-ale bottle across his thumb, as was his custom when called on to do his own pouring, when all at once his attention was attracted by a sign behind Charlie Price's bar. The sign read: "At Midnight All Drinks in this Saloon Reduced to Ten Cents.
Page 163 - Galway shanty, or the normal dwelling-place in Central Equatorial Africa. A cabin fronting east and west, long walls thirty feet, with port-holes for windows, short ditto fifteen ; material, sandstone and bog ironstone slabs compacted with mud, the whole roofed with split cedar trunks, reposing on horizontals which rested on perpendiculars. Behind the house a corral of rails planted in the ground ; the inclosed space a mass of earth, and a mere shed in one corner the only shelter. Outside the door...
Page 82 - You are probably aware that you have returned to a community where you are feared, hated and despised. . . . Your career in Nevada for the past nine years has been one of merciless rapacity. You fostered yourself upon the vitals of the State like a hyena, and woe to him who disputed with you a single coveted morsel of your prey.
Page 184 - Two narrow streams of clear water, four or five feet deep, gush suddenly, with a quick current, from two singularly large springs; these, and other waters of the basin, pass out in a gap to the eastward. The taste of the water is good, but rather too warm to be agreeable ; the temperature being 71° in the one, and 73° in the other. They, however, afforded a delightful bathing place.
Page 164 - Unyamenezi, and covered with piles of ragged blankets. Beneath the framework were heaps of rubbish, saddles, cloths, harness and straps, sacks of wheat, oats, meal and potatoes, defended from the ground by underlying logs; and dogs nestled where they found room. The floor, which also frequently represented...
Page 184 - Great Salt Lake arrived with a band of 30 young men detailed by Brigham Young to "go to Las Vegas, build a fort there to protect immigrants and the United States mail from the Indians and teach the latter how to raise corn, wheat, potatoes, squash and melons.