Author: Henry Reining
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Category : Boulder City (Nev.)
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Rules and Administration
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Category : Boulder City (Nev.)
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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Author: United States. Congress. House
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Category : United States
Languages : en
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Author: United States. Congress
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Languages : en
Pages : 1714

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Author: Eugene P. Moehring
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
ISBN: 087417693X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380

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Resort City in the Sunbelt is a non-sensationalistic, scholarly account of Las Vegas from the building of the Hoover Dam to the construction of the MGM Grand Hotel. Historian Eugene Moehring provides a balanced view of the city’s urban development. Although a unique city in many ways, Las Vegas has displayed characteristics common to other sunbelt cities across the western United States—including underfunded social services, low-density urbanization with a heavy reliance upon automobiles, a sluggish response to problems within minority communities, a preference for efficient, business-like government, and a mania for low taxes. The gaming and resort aspects are fully considered, but Moehring emphasizes the city as part of the continually expanding sunbelt. From this important study, historians will conclude that, despite some of its unusual traits, Las Vegas is much like other western cities and therefore deserves recognition as one of the fastest-growing centers in postwar America. In a new and expanded epilogue to this edition, Moehring looks at the major events of the three decades leading up to 2000 and their underpinnings.

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Category : Public administration
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Author: Andrew J. Dunar
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
ISBN: 0874173833
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378

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Andrew J. Dunar and Dennis McBride skillfully interweave eyewitness accounts of the building of Hoover Dam. These stories create the richest existing portrait of the building of Hoover Dam and its tremendous effect on the lives of those involved in its creation: the gritty, sometimes grisly realities of living in cardboard boxes and tents during several of the hottest Southern Nevada summers on record; the fearsome carbon monoxide deaths of tunnel builders who, it was claimed, had died of "pneumonia"; the uproarious life of nearby Las Vegas versus the tightly controlled existence of the workers in the built-overnight confines of Boulder City; and of course the astounding accomplishment of building the Dam itself and completing the task not only early but under budget!

Author: University of California, Berkeley. Institute of Governmental Studies. Library
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Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 870

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
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Category : Boulder City (Nev.)
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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Committee Serial No. 9. Hearing was held in Boulder City, Nev., and considers legislation on changing Boulder City, Nev., from a Federal municipality to a state-operated municipality; on the recreational development of Lake Mead; and on public land problems in southern Nevada.