Author: Jennifer E. Riddle
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467134066
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Roads are rarely given a second thought yet are indispensable to life. Admittedly, a book dedicated to roadways sounds a bit dry. But behind every double-diamond interchange, every pork chop island, and every type of asphalt is a fascinating history of the traveling public. This book reveals the hidden history of building the Silver State's highways since 1917. The next time you take a road trip across Nevada on the Lincoln Highway (US 50) or the Victory Highway (US 40) or follow a rutted road to a once-booming ghost town think of the ingenious and industrious men and women, surveyors, engineers, chemists, and yes, even the teams of mules that built the roads we still travel today.
Building Nevada's Highways
Author: Jennifer E. Riddle
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467134066
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Roads are rarely given a second thought yet are indispensable to life. Admittedly, a book dedicated to roadways sounds a bit dry. But behind every double-diamond interchange, every pork chop island, and every type of asphalt is a fascinating history of the traveling public. This book reveals the hidden history of building the Silver State's highways since 1917. The next time you take a road trip across Nevada on the Lincoln Highway (US 50) or the Victory Highway (US 40) or follow a rutted road to a once-booming ghost town think of the ingenious and industrious men and women, surveyors, engineers, chemists, and yes, even the teams of mules that built the roads we still travel today.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467134066
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Roads are rarely given a second thought yet are indispensable to life. Admittedly, a book dedicated to roadways sounds a bit dry. But behind every double-diamond interchange, every pork chop island, and every type of asphalt is a fascinating history of the traveling public. This book reveals the hidden history of building the Silver State's highways since 1917. The next time you take a road trip across Nevada on the Lincoln Highway (US 50) or the Victory Highway (US 40) or follow a rutted road to a once-booming ghost town think of the ingenious and industrious men and women, surveyors, engineers, chemists, and yes, even the teams of mules that built the roads we still travel today.
Building Nevada's Highways
Author: Jennifer E. Riddle
Publisher: Arcadia Library Editions
ISBN: 9781531678180
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Roads are rarely given a second thought yet are indispensable to life. Admittedly, a book dedicated to roadways sounds a bit dry. But behind every double-diamond interchange, every pork chop island, and every type of asphalt is a fascinating history of the traveling public. This book reveals the hidden history of building the Silver State's highways since 1917. The next time you take a road trip across Nevada on the Lincoln Highway (US 50) or the Victory Highway (US 40) or follow a rutted road to a once-booming ghost town think of the ingenious and industrious men and women, surveyors, engineers, chemists, and yes, even the teams of mules that built the roads we still travel today.
Publisher: Arcadia Library Editions
ISBN: 9781531678180
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Roads are rarely given a second thought yet are indispensable to life. Admittedly, a book dedicated to roadways sounds a bit dry. But behind every double-diamond interchange, every pork chop island, and every type of asphalt is a fascinating history of the traveling public. This book reveals the hidden history of building the Silver State's highways since 1917. The next time you take a road trip across Nevada on the Lincoln Highway (US 50) or the Victory Highway (US 40) or follow a rutted road to a once-booming ghost town think of the ingenious and industrious men and women, surveyors, engineers, chemists, and yes, even the teams of mules that built the roads we still travel today.
Report
Author: Nevada. Department of Highways
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Designating Highway U.S. 50 as Part of the Interstate System, Nevada
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Roads
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Nevada Highways and Parks
History of Nevada
Author: Russell R. Elliott
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803267150
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Maintaining the same high standards of the first edition, published in 1973, this new, revised edition is still the most comprehensive one-volume history of a state that was once thought of as "a bridge to somewhere else." In revising, Elliott summarizes the state's economic, political, and social history since 1973 and strengthens a major point he made then: that Nevada's acceptance of liberal marriage and divorce laws and of legalized gambling brought economic stability to a state singularly devoid of stable economic resources. -- from Book Jacket
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803267150
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Maintaining the same high standards of the first edition, published in 1973, this new, revised edition is still the most comprehensive one-volume history of a state that was once thought of as "a bridge to somewhere else." In revising, Elliott summarizes the state's economic, political, and social history since 1973 and strengthens a major point he made then: that Nevada's acceptance of liberal marriage and divorce laws and of legalized gambling brought economic stability to a state singularly devoid of stable economic resources. -- from Book Jacket
The Nevada Adventure
Author: James W. Hulse
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Ghosts and Legends of Nevada's Highway 50
Author: Janice Oberding
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439665095
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
The 287-mile stretch of highway that runs east to west across Nevada's desert is billed as the "Loneliest Road in America." But those who explore it find there is plenty to discover along the way in the towns of Austin, Eureka, Ely, Fallon and Fernley. Every one of these places has its own unique history, ghosts and stories to tell. From the sordid lynching of Richard Jennings to the humorous legend about a famous sack of flour, author Janice Oberding treks across Highway 50 seeking spirits and uncovering the tales of Singing Sand Mountain, the Red-Headed Giants, the Giroux Mine Disaster and many more.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439665095
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
The 287-mile stretch of highway that runs east to west across Nevada's desert is billed as the "Loneliest Road in America." But those who explore it find there is plenty to discover along the way in the towns of Austin, Eureka, Ely, Fallon and Fernley. Every one of these places has its own unique history, ghosts and stories to tell. From the sordid lynching of Richard Jennings to the humorous legend about a famous sack of flour, author Janice Oberding treks across Highway 50 seeking spirits and uncovering the tales of Singing Sand Mountain, the Red-Headed Giants, the Giroux Mine Disaster and many more.
Annual Report of the State Treasurer of the State of Nevada, for the ... Fiscal Year Ending ...
Author: Nevada. Office of the State Treasurer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Finance, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Finance, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
A Brief for the Lincoln Highway in Utah and Nevada, Addressed to Secretary of Agriculture, Washington D.C.
Author: Lincoln Highway Association
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lincoln Highway
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lincoln Highway
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description