Devils Will Reign
Subtitle: How Nevada Began (Wilbur S. Shepperson Series in Nevada History)
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Published: September 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780874177244
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; c 1800 to c 1900; History; History - Military / War; History - U.S.; History: American; Nevada; United States - 19th Century/Old West; United States - Civil War; United States - State & Local - West
First sentence: IT WAS A TIME when mighty pines unbitten by the ax still stood tall in the Sierra Nevada, deer moved softly through the forest shade, rivers rippled in clear cascades down the eastern slope to flow more gently through valleys of deep grass and lose themselves in desert lakes and marshes, antelope still flicked their short white tails and bounded with springing leaps across sage-sprinkled hills quilted with tall bunches of Indian rice grass, and golden eagles soared above the mountain chains that crossed the desert, north to south, again and again, from the Sierra Nevada almost to the Great Salt Lake.