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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Snake Range is a line of high mountains in eastern White Pine County, in east-central Nevada in the western United States. Typical of other ranges in the Basin and Range Province, it runs in a north-south direction, in this case for approximately 60 miles (97 km). To the west is Spring Valley and the Schell Creek Range, while to the east is the border with Utah, Snake Valley, and the Confusion Range. In 1986 this southern section of the range was selected as the location of the Great Basin National Park, recognizing both the unique geologic features of these mountains as well as their representation of the region as a whole.From Wheeler Peak the range begins to drop, reaching 7,154 feet (2,181 m) at Sacramento Pass, just 11 miles (18 km) to the north. Here is where U.S. Route 6/U.S. Route 50, the "Loneliest Highway in America", crosses the range, and provides the principal means of access to this area of eastern Nevada. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Territory of Nevada was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from March 2, 1861, until October 31, 1864, when it was admitted to the Union as the State of Nevada. Prior to the creation of the Nevada Territory, the area was part of western Utah Territory and was known as Washoe, after the native Washoe people. The separation of the territory from Utah was important to the federal government because of its political leanings, while the population itself was keen to be separated because of animosity (and sometimes violence) between mainstream Christians in Nevada and Mormons from the rest of the Utah Territory. ... Read more

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Advance Prints of fallout totals for each of the contiguous United States from nuclear tests conducted at the Nevada Test Site from 1951 through 1970 presented in eBook format. Tables include nuclear fallout from the following shot series: Ranger, Buster-Jangle, Tumbler-Snapper, Upshot-Knothole, Teapot, Plumbbob, Hardtack II and Nougat through Bowline.Fallout data includes the major underground detonations such as Sedan and Schooner as well as the Baneberry venting accident of December, 1970.
Information was based in part upon Iodine-131 values published online on Oct 4, 1997 as part of the National Cancer Institute publication: Estimated Exposures and Thyroid Doses Received by the American People from Iodine-131 in Fallout following the Nevada Atmospheric Nuclear Bomb tests.These values were evaluated using total fallout values for individual nuclear tests found in the 1981 Livermore Laboratory publication, Results of Calculations of External Gamma Radiation Exposure Rates from Fallout and the Related Radionuclide Compositions: Operations Ranger, Buster-Jangle, Tumbler and Snapper, Upshot-Knothole, Teapot, Plumbbob, Hardtack II (1958), Nougat through Bowline, and the nuclear test Baneberry.
The tables found in this series of books offer the widest range of fallout values currently available to the public.For example, the range of values for the county of Spokane WA extends from 13.6 nCi/sq meter (28 April 1955 on the 14th day of shot TP-9 (code-named MET) to a high of 12,278.4 nCi/sq meter (26 July, 1957) from the third day of shot PB-6 (from shots KEPLER AND OWENS.)
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McCarran International Airport (IATA: LAS, ICAO: KLAS, FAA LID: LAS) is the principal commercial airport serving Las Vegas and Clark County, Nevada, United States. The airport is located five miles (8 km) south of the central business district of Las Vegas, in the unincorporated area of Paradise in Clark County. It covers an area of 2,800 acres (1,100 ha) and has four runways. McCarran is owned by Clark County and operated by the Clark County Department of Aviation (DOA). It serves as a focus city for Allegiant Air, Southwest Airlines, and US Airways (Focus city ends January 31); McCarran is also the largest operation base for both Allegiant and Southwest. It is named after the former Nevada Senator Pat McCarran. In 2008, McCarran ranked 15th in the world for passenger traffic, with 44,074,707 passengers passing through the terminal. The airport ranked 6th in the world for aircraft movements with 578,949 takeoffs and landings. McCarran and the DOA are completely self-sufficient enterprises, requiring no money from the County's general fund. ... Read more

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Advance Prints of fallout totals for each of the contiguous United States from nuclear tests conducted at the Nevada Test Site from 1951 through 1970 presented in eBook format. Tables include nuclear fallout from the following shot series: Ranger, Buster-Jangle, Tumbler-Snapper, Upshot-Knothole, Teapot, Plumbbob, Hardtack II and Nougat through Bowline.Fallout data includes the major underground detonations such as Sedan and Schooner as well as the Baneberry venting accident of December, 1970.
Information was based in part upon Iodine-131 values published online on Oct 4, 1997 as part of the National Cancer Institute publication: Estimated Exposures and Thyroid Doses Received by the American People from Iodine-131 in Fallout following the Nevada Atmospheric Nuclear Bomb tests.These values were evaluated using total fallout values for individual nuclear tests found in the 1981 Livermore Laboratory publication, Results of Calculations of External Gamma Radiation Exposure Rates from Fallout and the Related Radionuclide Compositions: Operations Ranger, Buster-Jangle, Tumbler and Snapper, Upshot-Knothole, Teapot, Plumbbob, Hardtack II (1958), Nougat through Bowline, and the nuclear test Baneberry.
The tables found in this series of books offer the widest range of fallout values currently available to the public.For example, the range of values for the county of Spokane WA extends from 13.6 nCi/sq meter (28 April 1955 on the 14th day of shot TP-9 (code-named MET) to a high of 12,278.4 nCi/sq meter (26 July, 1957) from the third day of shot PB-6 (from shots KEPLER AND OWENS.)
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Nye County is a county located in the U.S. state of Nevada. As of the 2000 census, the population was 32,485. As of 2007, the population was estimated to be 46,308. At 18,159 square miles (47,030 km2), Nye is the third largest county in terms of area in the United States, excluding the boroughs of Alaska. Its county seat is Tonopah. The center of population of Nevada is located in Nye County, very near Yucca Mountain. The largest community in Nye County is Pahrump, an unincorporated town. ... Read more

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A critical era in California's history and development--the building of the first roads over the Sierra Nevada--is thoroughly and colorfully documented in Thomas Howard's fascinating book. During California's first two decades of statehood (1850-1870), the state was separated from the east coast by a sea journey of at least six weeks. Although Californians expected to be connected with the other states by railroad soon after the 1849 Gold Rush, almost twenty years elapsed before this occurred. Meanwhile, various overland road ventures were launched by "emigrants," former gold miners, state government officials, the War Department, the Interior Department, local politicians, town businessmen, stagecoach operators, and other entrepreneurs whose alliances with one another were constantly shifting. The broad landscape of international affairs is also a part of Howard's story.
Constructing roads and accumulating geographic information in the Sierra Nevada reflected Washington's interest in securing the vast western territories formerly held by others. In a remarkably short time the Sierra was transformed by vigorous exploration, road-promotion, and road-building. Ox-drawn wagons gave way to stagecoaches able to provide service as fine as any in the country. Howard effectively uses diaries, letters, newspaper stories, and official reports to recreate the human struggle and excitement involved in building the first trans-Sierra roads. Some of those roads have become modern highways used by thousands every day, while others are now only dim traces in the lonely backcountry. ... Read more

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Very enjoyable
I found Howard's book to be very informative filled with a multitude of excellent primary and secondary sources that has caused me to increase my library with six new books! Howard has done his homework well, although I could add a new source to his list with the inclusion of Lewis Gunn's, Records of a California Family (page 217) since Gunn describes the emigrants after arriving in Sonora having crossed the Sierras using the unforgiving Sonora Pass route. One can tell he completely enjoyed doing his research through his fine style of writing and comparative photographs. The book is not "insuperable" by any means for the average reader. Excellent!

First roads to California.
Scholarly yes, dry absolutely.I know the author is a Professor, but you need to appeal to your readers.There was some good research into this book, and it is obvious the author traversed some of the roads himself.However, why not elaborate on some of the tales of those emigrants coming into California.This was a relatively short book, but it took me nearly four days for me to read.That said, the author explores new ground on the hardships of people going overland to California.This is a story that needs telling.

This book is for those interested in California history.It is more focused toward the academic audience, and a general reader has to have a great desire to learn more about this subject. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Walker Lake is a natural lake, 50.3 mi² (130 km²) in area, in the Great Basin in western Nevada in the United States. It is 18 mi (29 km) long and 7 mi (11 km) wide, located in northwestern Mineral County along the eastern side of the Wassuk Range, approximately 75 mi (120 km) southeast of Reno. The lake is fed from the north by the Walker River and has no natural outlet except absorption and evaporation.The lakebed is a remnant of prehistoric Lake Lahontan that covered much of northwestern Nevada during the ice age. Although the ancient history of Walker Lake has been extensively studied by researchers seeking to establish a climatic timeline for the region as part of the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository study, this research has raised many puzzling questions. ... Read more

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Earl Pomeroy is one of the most influential Western historians of the twentieth century, a scholar whose writings have reconceptionalized the entire discipline. The Pacific Slope, his most ambitious and significant work, synthesizes the history of six western states by examining the historical forces that made the West what it is today. His West is a region of considerable diversity rather than the product of a process of steady and fairly homogeneous settlement, and his focus is on urbanization over rural life and on the West's varied populations of people of color as well as on Euro-American elites. As Pomeroy states in his preface, "conventional emphasis leaves a large part of the story untold, even the story of people who accepted conventions. I have tried to focus on men and events that explain the West as a developing community, emphasizing traits and institutions." ... Read more

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Pretty Much a Slog
Without a doubt, this book is a big undertaking and doing it well has to be very difficult.There were a number of interesting chapters, but the style of writing, compound sentences combined with hyphenated phrases that went on for line upon line, made it very difficult to read and follow.This was probably the most frustrating book I've ever read, and I only finished it as a matter or principle.

Lots of good information
This book gives alot of good information about the settling of the west and about many key figures who influenced the settlement of what was a vast wilderness area.The writing style is sometimes a bit too pedantic and this is not light reading that you'll go through quickly.However, the volume of information makes this book worth it.The closing of the American frontier and the settlement of the west are interesting subjects and this book does a good job of covering them.

I welcome feedback on this and all reviews at wstrnlibwarrior@yahoo.com

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Minden is a census-designated place (CDP) in Douglas County, Nevada, United States. The population was 2,836 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Douglas County and is adjacent to the city of Gardnerville. It is named after the town of Minden, in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It has possessed a post office since 1906. US Highway 395 runs through Minden. It is also the terminus of State Route 88, which becomes California State Route 88 on the west side of the state line. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Geographical Review, published by Thomson Gale on January 1, 2007. The length of the article is 8345 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Amenity migration in the U.S. Sierra Nevada.
Author: Roland Loeffler
Publication: The Geographical Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 97Issue: 1Page: 67(22)

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Hawthorne is a census-designated place (CDP) in Mineral County, Nevada, United States. The population was 3,311 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Mineral County. The nearby Hawthorne Army Depot is the primary economic base of the town. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Fallon is a city in Churchill County, located in western Nevada, United States. The population was 7,536 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Churchill County and is located in the Lahontan Valley. Fallon is primarily an agricultural community. Although the area is arid, approximately 50,000 acres (200 km²) of farmland are irrigated with water supplied by the Truckee-Carson Irrigation District. The principal crop is alfalfa. Fallon Heart O' Gold cantaloupes were once distributed throughout the nation, but are now mostly grown for local consumption. Naval Air Station Fallon also provides a significant employment. Fallon has been known as the "Oasis of Nevada." ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Roach, Nevada is a siding on the Union Pacific railroad, between Jean, Nevada and Nipton, California, in Clark County, Nevada, USA. Roach is on the eastern shoreline of Roach Dry Lake, and is below Beer Bottle Pass in the Lucy Gray Mountains to the northeast. Roach's elevation is 2,618 feet (798 m.). Roach appears on, and is the namesake for, the USGS Roach 7.5' topographic map (1985). Roach Lake is just east of Interstate 15 for the first five miles north of Whiskey Pete's Casino at the California-Nevada state line. Whiskey Pete's is a hotel and casino located in Primm, Nevada. The hotel has 777 rooms and suites, a large swimming pool, gift shop, and four restaurants. The hotel and casino are owned by Primm Valley Resorts. The casino covers approximately 36,400 sq ft (3,380 m2) and includes a race and sports book. ... Read more

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Discusses the geographical, historical, and cultural aspects of Arizona, Nevada, and Utah. Includes maps, illustrated fact spreads, and other illustrated materials. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ely is the largest city and county seat of White Pine County, Nevada, United States.Ely was founded as a stage coach station along the Pony Express and Central Overland Route. Ely's mining boom came later than the other towns along US 50, with the discovery of copper in 1906. Though the railroads connecting the First Transcontinental Railroad to the mines in Austin and Eureka have long been removed, the railroad to Ely is preserved as a heritage railway by the Nevada Northern Railway and known as the Ghost Train of Old Ely. As of the 2000 census, the population was 4,041. ... Read more