Unreal city
Subtitle: Las Vegas, Black Mesa, and the fate of the West
By: Judith Nies
Publisher: Nation Books
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781568587486
Subjects: Social conditions; Coal mines and mining; Indians of North America; History
Description: Describes the darker side of the history of Las Vegas and Black Mesa, Arizona, including the relocation of fifteen thousand Navajo to mine coal for cheap electricity for the Vegas Strip and the precipitous drop in the water level of Lake Mead.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-280) and index.
Table of contents: title: Everyone comes for the money; title: Goldwater and the Desert Inn; title: The ladies from Black Mesa; title: Founding myths : Laughlin, Nevada; title: Gilded age land grabs; title: The Indian lawyer and a brief history of coal; title: The Mormon West; title: Legal theft; title: Learning from Las Vegas; title: Chinatown 2; title: The Bechtel family business; title: Roberta Blackgoat's world; title: Epilogue: who will pay? Gambling on the future.