Author: Elizabeth W. Pomeroy
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ISBN: 9780615614021
Category : San Marino (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Author: Eugene P. Moehring
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
ISBN: 0874176476
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354

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The meteoric rise of Las Vegas from a remote Mormon outpost to an international entertainment center was never a sure thing. In its first decades, the town languished, but when Nevada legalized casino gambling in 1931, Las Vegas met its destiny. This act—combined with the growing popularity of the automobile, cheap land and electricity, and changing national attitudes toward gambling—led to the fantastic casinos and opulent resorts that became the trademark industry of the city and created the ambiance that has made Las Vegas an icon of pleasure. This volume celebrates the city’s unparalleled growth, examining both the development of its gaming industry and the creation of an urban complex that over two million people proudly call home. Here are the colorful characters who shaped the city as well as the political, business, and civic decisions that influenced its growth. The story extends chronologically from the first Paiute people to the construction of the latest megaresorts, and geographically far beyond the original township to include the several municipalities that make up today’s vast metropolitan Las Vegas area.

Author: Edwin M. P. Brister
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Licking County (Ohio)
Languages : en
Pages : 546

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Author: George Rogers Howell
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Category : Albany (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 548

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Author: Joseph Gaston
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Category : Oregon
Languages : en
Pages : 1076

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Author: Jane Apostol
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ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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Author: Harvey W. Crew
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Category : Washington (D.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 886

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Author: Stan Ingersol
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780834124448
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A study of the roots and growth of the Church of the Nazarene.

Author: Joseph Cochrane
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Category : Mason County (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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Author: Jacob W. Olmstead
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ISBN: 9781682830833
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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In 1936, the Texas centennial was celebrated across the state. In The Frontier Centennial, Jacob Olmstead argues that Fort Worth?s celebration of the centennial represented a unique opportunity to reshape the city?s identity and align itself with a progressive future. Olmstead draws out the Frontier Centennial from its inception as a commemorative fair to theme park enshrining the mythic West to show the various ways centennial planners, boosters, and civic leaders sought to use the celebration as a means to bolster the city?s identity and image as a modern city of the American West. Olmstead?s retelling of the Frontier Centennial looks at two distinctive processes. The first addresses the interplay of memory, identity, and image in the evolution of the celebration?s commemorative messages. Fort Worth?s image as a progressive western metropolis also impacted other areas, less central, to Frontier Centennial planning. Debates over how outsiders would interpret features of the celebration, carried on by club women and others, reveal the interest the citizenry held in upholding or contesting the city?s modern image. Overlapping with the issues of memory and identity, the second process addresses how the larger narratives of the mythic West influenced the content of the celebration. Though drawn from actual events and people, the myth reduces the past to its ?ideological essence.? Mythmakers, like historians, draw upon facts to explain and give meaning to a particular worldview.