In Nevada
Subtitle: the land, the people, God, and chance
By: David Thomson ; original photographs by Lucy Gray.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: A.A. Knopf
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
Subjects: Thomson, David, 1941- -- Travel -- Nevada.; Nevada -- Description and travel.; Nevada -- History.; Nevada -- Social life and customs.
Description: "At once examining and experiencing Nevada, Thomson finds its people, its landscape, and the unexpected questions it inspires equally provocative. He shows us the historical Nevada - a classic Wild West, attracting Spanish missionaries, Mormons, uprooted Native Americans, explorers, and silver miners - and the contemporary influx of cultists, druggies, survivalists, and fortune hunters whose quests lead directly to the gaming table."--BOOK JACKET.

"We see Nevada as a place of no-holds-barred experimentation, both social (gambling, prostitution, easy divorce, no taxes) and scientific (nuclear testing and storage of nuclear waste). We see suburbanites rubbing shoulders with sybarites; the natural beauty of Lake Tahoe, shadowed by the financial edifice of tourism; criminals, entertainers, and hotel impresarios sharing dreams of glory (and the memory of Bugsy Siegel and Frank Sinatra)."--BOOK JACKET.

"In Nevada is a revelation of the gambler's mix of hope and anxiety, of the isolation and closeness, the beauty and banality, the fact and fancy, at the heart of the state - and the state of mind - of Nevada."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-314) and index.