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License to Steal: Nevada's Gaming Control System in the Megaresort Age |
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| by Jeff Burbank |
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| Varied criminal activity, innovative (but illegal)
financial dealings, and the brilliant use of technology for ill-gotten gain, all have been involved in
the schemes of unscrupulous casino owners, employees, and gamblers throughout the decades of legal gambling.
Gaming in Nevada is more stringently controlled than anywhere else in the United States, and in License
to Steal, investigative reporter and editor Jeff Burbank provides a lively and highly readable case
history account of some of the most significant and most fascinating cases adjudicated by the Nevada
Gaming Control Board and Commission during a pivotal time for the growing gaming industry. |
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The
Roar and the Silence |
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| by Ronald M. James |
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| A History of Virginia City
and the Comstock Lode -
The Roar and the Silence chronicles the area's history from
its earliest days through the early twentieth century, when the lode
finally gave out and the Comstock sank into silent decay, and up to
the present, when Virginia City and its environs found new life,
first as a community of bohemians and artists, and more recently as
a tourist attraction offering a taste of the frontier experience to
visitors from around the world. James's text brings the Comstock to
life again in all its complexity and boom-and-bust excitement. This
book offers a wealth of new information and insight into the history
of one of the Old West's most storied areas. |
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Twenty Miles from a Match: Homesteading in Western Nevada |
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| by Sarah E. Olds |
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| Twenty Miles From a Match, originally published in 1978, is
the autobiography of an indomitable woman and her family's twenty years of adventures and misadventures
in a desert wilderness. In 1908, a venturesome woman named Sarah Olds packed up her brood and went
homesteading west of Sutcliffe on Pyramid Lake. Her ailing husband said, welcoming her to their new home,
"There, old lady. There's your home, and it's damn near in the heart of Egypt." |
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