num_pages: 352
description: Nevada is the place where Samuel Clemens became Mark Twain, Frank Sinatra became Chairman of the Board, divorce became an industry and gambling an institution. It was a place that Kit Carson could explore, where Bugsy Seigel could dream, and Howard Hughes might hide. It's the government's favorite place to test nuclear bombs and store nuclear waste. It's a place, in short, of an impossible amalgam and improbable history.From David Thomson, the highly-acclaimed author of The Story of Orson Welles , has beaten all the odds with a stunning book that pieces this great state  together in all its mind-boggling contradictions. In Nevada is a rich and fascinating work inescapably necessary for any student of the American West.
language: English
title: In Nevada: The Land, the People, God, and Chance
titlecomplete: In Nevada: The Land, the People, God, and Chance
genres: Travel, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 36
publisher: Vintage