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Chapters: Nevada State Capitol, Carson Airport, Ormsby House, Nevada Governor's Mansion, Carson City Mint, Stewart Indian School, Jack C. Davis Observatory, Nevada State Prison. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Nevada State Capitol -Abraham Curry, the founder of Carson City, reserved an area equivalent to four city blocks (10 acres or 4.04 ha) at the center of the town for the future state capitol. When the Capitol building was constructed, it was naturally located on "the plaza", which had, some ten or eleven years earlier, been designated for it, and given for that purpose. As Mark Twain wrote in Roughing It, today's capitol site was in 1861, "a large, unfenced, level vacancy, with a liberty pole in it, and very useful as a place for public auctions, horse trades, mass meetings, and likewise for teamsters to camp in." The "act to provide for the erection of a State Capitol" was passed by the Nevada Legislature and signed into law by Governor Henry G. Blasdel in 1869. The Board of Capitol Commissioners received bids of $84,000 to $160,000 for construction and they chose the lowest bid, submitted by Peter Cavanaugh and Son of Carson City. The 1869 act authorized $100,000 for construction, with money to come from a special tax levy, plus the proceeds from the sale of some public land. To keep costs down, the building sandstone was obtained free of charge from the Nevada State Prison quarry, just outside of Carson City. In spite of this, the construction costs mounted to some $170,000, exceeding even the high bid. The cornerstone was laid on June 9, 1870. A brass box that served as a time capsule was deposited in the stone. However, which stone is the actual cornerstone is currently unknown. The fourth session of the state legislature met in th...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=3599893 ... Read more

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This book presents a study of Nevada City, Montana to examine the eligibility potential for a historic district nomination to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). Founded in 1863, Nevada City experienced a gold mining heyday from 1863-1869. As easily attainable placers diminished and strikes were reported elsewhere, the town was nearly abandoned. Many of the remaining buildings were demolished, used for firewood, or salvaged by Nevada City's remaining residents. Senator Charles Bovey began preservation work in 1944 at nearby Virginia City, Montana. In the late 1950s Bovey was asked to remove his "Old Town" exhibit from the Great Falls fairgrounds. He purchased several acres of land containing what remained of Nevada City and began relocating buildings to Nevada City's vacant lots in 1958. The collection of original, relocated, and reconstructed buildings were intended to represent the 1860s-1900 period of Montana¿s history. In 1997 the State of Montana purchased Bovey's Nevada City and Virginia City properties and artifacts to continue the preservation and tourist legacy begun in 1944. ... Read more

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Chapters: Mustang Ranch, Virginia City Historic District (Virginia City, Nevada), Wild Horse Adult Resort ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Chapters: Great Basin, Salt Lake City, Chemehuevi, Great Salt Lake, Reno, Nevada, Kit Carson, Carson City, Nevada, Mono Lake, John C. Frémont, Provo, Utah, Weber County, Utah, Lake Tahoe, Elko, Nevada, Utah Lake, Winnemucca, Nevada, Death Valley, Paiute, Fallon, Nevada, Lake Lahontan, California Trail, Burning Man, Black Rock Desert, Old Spanish Trail, Great Basin National Park, Amargosa River, Owens Valley, Golden Spike, Bear River, Bear Lake, Shoshone, State of Deseret, Walkara, Angora Lakes, White Mountains, Pyramid Lake, Truckee River, Lake Bonneville, Smoke Creek Desert, Wasatch Front, Warner Mountains, Jordan River, Ruby Mountains, Cache Valley, Bonneville Salt Flats, Great Basin Tribes, List of North American Deserts, Toiyabe Range, Madrean Region, Martis People, Surprise Valley (Modoc County, California), Central Overland Route, Washoe People, Mojave River, Rush Lake, Walker Lake, Panaca, Nevada, Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation, Basin and Range Province, Bannock War, Lahontan Valley, Deep Springs Valley, Owens River, Panamint Range, West Humboldt Range, Indian Colony, Inyo Mountains, List of Great Basin Watersheds, Fish Springs National Wildlife Refuge, Pah Rah Range, Sevier Lake, Mormon Mountains, Sevier River, Kawaiisu, Carson River, Carson Sink, Dead Camel Mountains, Desert Mountains, Quinn River, Pilot Range, Walker River Indian Reservation, Washoe Lake, Deep Creek Mountains, Humboldt Sink, Pilot Valley Playa, Utah, List of Rivers of the Great Basin, Sand Springs Range, Five Mile Pass, Stillwater Range, Mono Lake Tufa State Reserve, Truckee Range, Lake Humboldt, Modoc National Wildlife Refuge, Orovada, Nightingale Mountains, Winnemucca Lake, Virgin Mountains, Havasu Lake, California, Susan River, Snake Indians, Virginia Mountains, Virginia Range, Independence Valley Fault System, Lake Range, Kings River, Malad River, Pyramid Lake Fault Zone, Black Rock City, Nevada. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 586. Not illustrated....More: http://booksllc.net/?id=768226 ... Read more

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Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Nevada City," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Nevada City in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Nevada City when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Nevada City, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. ... Read more