Nevada Constitution: Orgin & Growth, Wilbur S. Shepperson Series in History & Series #8

History

Driggs, Don W.

Americas

Nevada Humanities Committee

The Donner Party has become a tragic icon of the American march west. From Independence, Missouri, to Sutter's Fort, California, the party endured almost unimaginable hardship and suffering. Author Frank Mullen Jr. gives us a day by day account of their struggle for survival as they journey across the trail west. The Reno Gazette-Journal and the Nevada Humanities Committee present Frank Mullen's account of the Donner Party, accompanied by hundreds of historical illustrations and Marilyn Newton's photographs of the trail today.

The Donner Party Chronicles: A Day-by-Day Account of a Doomed Wagon Train, 1846-47

Frank Mullen Jr.

Several writers look at diverse technologies such as barbed wire, printing, and the railroad and their power to shape the nineteenth century West. Others argue the postmodern position that perceptions of the landscape are shaped by the values of observers, researchers, and storytellers. The volume includes photographic studies of historical and contemporary landscapes, while writers debate the role of mass media in shaping public perceptions of the geographic West.

Western Technological Landscapes (Halcyon, 20)

Travel

This work brings together photographers, poets and essayists to explore historical and contemporary views of community in the American West. Writers reject the tradition of judging western communities in terms of established values from the Eastern US and Europe, and they develop dimensions of the concept of community by studying such diverse settings and populations as the coal country of Colorado, the southern California suburbs, and the lives of ethnic and cultural minorities. Although the writers specifically discuss community in the West, the message deriving from the collection is a broader one that links this book to long-standing traditions in the humanities: this is a book about the community of humankind.

Community in the American West (Halcyon Imprint)

What does the future hold for the American West? In this collection, seventeen humanities scholars from a range of fields and disciplines examine the possibilities as we enter the new millennium. The essayists explore the arbitrariness of "the millennium" as a date for change but acknowledge the millennium as a discussion point for analyzing current problems as well as the rhetoric surrounding such topics as architecture, multiculturalism, futurism, hypermedia, the literary canon, English language, urban and suburban growth, public health, and environmental themes.

Western Futures

Stories from the Sagebrush; Celebrating Northern Nevada at the Millennium (A Halcyon Imprint)

Cox, Don

Ever since Frederick Jackson Turner, migration has been a central theme in the popular imagination and scholarly study of the American West. Moving Stories showcases today's varied scholarly approaches. 
Contributors from the fields of literature, history, and popular culture examine a range of topics: migration into, within, and out of the West; the diverse meanings of migration for women and men of different ethnic and economic backgrounds; literary portrayals of migration from western to the Harlem Renaissance to postmodernism; and the influence of specific historic events, such as the Great Depression and World War II, on migration. The essays draw upon diaries and letters, oral history, fiction and memoirs, photographs, governmental reports and promotional literature, and more.

Moving Stories: Migration and the American West, 1850-2000 (Halcyon, V. 23.)

Casper, Scott E.

Long, Lucinda M.

In the Shadow of Fox Peak: An Ethnography of the Cattail-eater Northern Paiute People of Stillwater Marsh

Catherine S. Fowler

Sagebrush Vernacular: Rural Architecture in Nevada

Peter Goin

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