Study of funerary ritual &amp; description of the social structure of a rural Basque community. The American Ethnological Society Monograph 49.

Death in Murélaga;: Funerary ritual in a Spanish Basque village,

Douglass, William A.

University of Washington Press

Death in Murelaga (American Ethnological Monographs ; No 49)

Ams Pr Inc

Oddie, a 27-year-old attorney and business executive from East Orange, New Jersey, moved to Austin, Nevada in 1898 as secretary of a mining company and had an eventful, adventurous career, culminating in his election to the U.S. Senate. His letters are entertaining and illuminating. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Letters from the Nevada Frontier: Correspondence of Tasker L. Oddie, 1898-1902

Oddie, Tasker L.

History

Univ of Oklahoma Pr

Basque Americans: A Guide to Information Sources

Etulain, Richard W.

Americas

Gale/Cengage Learning

Emigration in a South Italian Town: An Anthropological History by William A. Douglass. 1984 hardcover published by Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Emigration in a South Italian Town: An Anthropological History

Rutgers Univ Pr

In 1898, Tasker L. Oddie, a twenty-seven-year-old New Jersey attorney and business executive, moved to Austin, Nevada, to serve as secretary of a company with mining and other interests in central Nevada. Over the next four years, he wrote frequent letters to his mother recounting the rigors of life on the Nevada frontier and the people he met there - miners, ranchers, Native Americans, and the townspeople of tiny, remote Austin and other isolated backcountry settlements. Nevada at the end of the nineteenth century was in economic decline, its known deposits of precious minerals nearly exhausted, its population drifting away to other possibilities. Soon Oddie was also striking out on his own in search of valuable mining prospects, eventually finding his fortune in the spectacular silver deposits of Tonopah, which were discovered in 1900. Oddie's letters are full of vivid details, the lively accounts of a young man eager to experience life and make his fortune, observant and humorous, intelligent and endlessly curious. The letters remain the best records we have of central Nevada when it was still very much an unsettled frontier, peopled by rugged pioneers and ever-hopeful fortune-seekers. Through Oddie's letters, we see the depressing stagnating of mining towns in decline and the hectic excitement of the boom times following the Tonopah strike. This is real grass-roots history, sparkling with information about mining and community building in the frontier West. Eventually, Oddie became wealthy, expanding his interests from mining to cattle raising and going on to enter politics, eventually serving as governor of Nevada, then as U.S. senator. These letters of his youth document not only the spirit that eventually made him a leader of his state, but the state that he was one day to lead. Now available in paperback for the first time, Letters from the Nevada Frontier is an essential resource for anyone interested in the history of Nevada at the end of the nineteenth century.

Letters From The Nevada Frontier: Correspondence Of Tasker L. Oddie, 1898-1902 (Nevada History)

Biographies & Memoirs

Nylen, Robert A.

Historical

University of Nevada Press

An accessible overview of the Basque diaspora in the Western Hemisphere, this book is both a pioneering study of one of the American West's most important ethnic minorities and an engaging, comprehensive survey of Basque migration and settlement in the Americas. This edition includes a fresh preface by William A Douglass.

Amerikanuak: Basques In The New World (The Basque Series)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

The life story of Jack Douglass a Northern Nevada gambling pioneer. Founder of the Cal-Neva Casino in Reno. (Description by http-mart)

Tap Dancing on Ice: The Life and Times of a Nevada Gaming Pioneer

Douglass, Jack

Univ of Nevada Oral History

A collection of fishing stories that will delight anglers everywhere. From the bonefishing flats of the Pacific nuclear-testing ground of Bikini Atoll, to the taimen rivers of Outer Mongolia, anthropologist Bill Douglass is the fisherman's fisherman. In this hilarious collection, he pursues the Argentine dorado, tucanare in the Brazilian Amazon, New Zealand's fabled brown trout, and the sublime steelhead of British Columbia. Along the way he waltzes with Alaskan bears, wades with pirannas, and marvels over the foibles of several critters of the two-legged variety!

Casting About in the Reel World: Fishing on the Fly (Travel Literature Series)

Sports & Outdoors

Hunting & Fishing

Rdr Books

The Starlight Hotel-Casinois the story of a troubled family business doomed to fail and the stressful dynamics among its members and key employees during the collapse. It describes the inner workings of the casino business and the demise of Reno as a major player in the industry; unable, as it was, to meet the triple threat of Las Vegas, Indian gaming, and the legalization of gambling throughout the United States and abroad. The novel is both a roman à clef and bildungsroman.

The Starlight Hotel-Casino (World Prose)

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Guernica Editions

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