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Sarah Winnemucca

1992
Recounts the life story of the influential Paiute woman who fought for justice and a better life for her people.

Nevada

2004
An introduction to the geography, history, government, politics, economy, resources, people, and culture of Nevada, including maps, charts, and a recipe.

Nevada

1986
Discusses the history, economy, culture, and future of Nevada. Also includes a state chronology, pertinent statistics, and maps.

Nevada

2000

A miner's Christmas carol

and other frontier tales
1987

Ghost town mystery

1987
Accompanying their father on a project that takes them to a ghost town in Nevada, teenage twins Sara and Sam discover peculiar nocturnal activities and clues to a hidden treasure of gold nuggets.

A bag of lucky rice

a novel
2004
Rusty, an old prospector, and Lo Fat and Lee, two Chinese living in the small mining town of Rhyolite, Nevada, become friends and share the excitement of finding gold in the Amargosa Desert.

Vision quest

1990
Kate finds life dreary in her small Nevada desert town until contact with an Indian artifact sends her visions of a restless shaman from the past, visions which eventually drag her and her friend Jimmy Fong into that far distant Nevada.

The Ox-Bow incident

2001
A posse captures and hangs three men believed to be guilty of cattle rustling and murder, only to learn later that the men were innocent.

Diamond dogs

2001
Seventeen-year-old Neil Garvin blames his abusive father for driving his mother away years earlier, and plans on leaving his small hometown after graduating high school, but when he accidentally commits a terrible crime, which his father, unasked, covers up, he finds himself unwillingly indebted to his father.

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