Author : Paul W. Papa
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 29,81 MB
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0762758198
A fascinating collection of thirty compelling stories about events that shaped Sin City, It Happened in Las Vegas describes everything from a nineteenth-century land deal that almost created two competing cities to the torrential rainstorm that flooded downtown Vegas with three inches of water.
Author : Paul W. Papa
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 13,82 MB
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1493014706
Best Bike Rides Las Vegas is the real treasure found within Nevada, detailing forty of the most diverse recreational and scenic rides in the Las Vegas valley. With most rides between 5 and 30 miles, it's easy to find a ride that suits your tastes. Each route includes complete point-by-point miles and directions, map, text description of the riding area, GPS coordinates of the start/finish point, and full-color photos of the ride's features. More than just a trail guide, Best Bike Rides Las Vegas gives the reader important information, such as local restaurants, restrooms, lodging, Las Vegas natural history, fauna, climate conditions, bicycle shops, other facilities for cyclists, and community resources. Look inside to find: GPS coordinates Detailed miles and directions Descriptions of what you'll see along the way Full-color photos
Author : Marshall Grant
Publisher : Cumberland House Publishing
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 38,8 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781581825107
Beginning with Grant and guitarist Luther Perkins's initial introductions to Johnny Cash and the jam sessions that followed, readers will marvel at how their musical inabilities drove these three men to musical greatness. From Grant's humorous story of placing adhesive tape on his bass to learn the notes prior to landing their Sun Records recording contract and witnessing Johnny write I Walk the Line, to his experience of playing with Cash at Folsom Prison, readers are taken backstage into Cash's inner circle.
Author : Elizabeth Gibson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 12,78 MB
Release : 2010-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0762766271
Written in a lively, easy-to-read style, this book features approximately 30 stories written for history buffs of all ages.
Author : Paul W. Papa
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 15,82 MB
Release : 2023-07-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1493070339
What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas ... including the ghosts, unexplained phenomenon, and other spooky happenings. The strip is much more than bright lights, gambling, wild shows, and quick marriage ceremonies. Haunted Las Vegas reveals the true mysteries of Sin City and brings the old legends to life in a chilling way. The Flamingo: Listed as one of the ten most haunted sites in America by the Wall Street Journal, the Flamingo Hotel is home to the ghost of Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel. A known gangster, Bugsy is often called the man who invented Las Vegas. Even though he was killed in Hollywood, his ghost reportedly remains at the Flamingo. The Demon Swing: In the dead of night, many people reportedly see smoke or mist surrounding Fox Ridge Park, home of the boy ghost on the demon swing. It is unknown how the ghost ended up in the park, but beware of this unfriendly boy--he is known to push people off the swings. [reading line] Eerie Tales and Spine-Tingling Stories From America's Sin City
Author : Paul W. Papa
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 33,28 MB
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1493004573
It Happened in Wyoming takes readers on a rollicking, behind-the-scenes look at some of the characters and episodes from the Equality State's storied past. Including both famous tales, and famous names--and little-known heroes, heroines, and happenings.
Author : Erin H. Turner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 10,33 MB
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1493028316
These are the stories of what happened in the West as the trickle then flood of Easterners and immigrants first began to flow into the plains, deserts, and mountains between the Pacific Ocean and the Mississippi River and, finally, far north into The Last Frontier. While some events would have happened regardless who was there—earthquakes, storms, droughts, and other natural disasters—it was because of this influx of humanity that those events were recorded and have become part of America’s history. Amid tales of loss and horror are accounts of survival and success. And among the countless adventurers who found the lure of wide open spaces and untapped resources to be as strong as the Sirens’ song to Odysseus, many found the determination to thrive in the West. And thrive they did—even better, for what they lacked in resources they made up in resourcefulness, becoming inventors, entrepreneurs, scientists, activists, explorers and more.
Author : Richard M. Patterson
Publisher : Big Earth Publishing
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,19 MB
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : 9780933472891
A state-by-state review of the history of outlaws and outlaw activity in the Old West.
Author : Randall Kenan
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 43,82 MB
Release : 2000-02-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 067973788X
"A meaningful panoramic view of what it means to be human...Cause for celebration." --Times-Picayune From the author of the National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Let the Dead Bury Their Dead comes a moving, cliché-shattering group portrait of African Americans at the turn of the twenty-first century. In a hypnotic blend of oral history and travel writing, Randall Kenan sets out to answer a question that has has long fascinated him: What does it mean to be black in America today? To find the answers, Kenan traveled America--from Alaska to Louisiana, from Maine to Las Vegas--over the course of six years, interviewing nearly two hundred African Americans from every conceivable walk of life. We meet a Republican congressman and an AIDS activist; a Baptist minister in Mormon Utah and an ambitious public-relations major in North Dakota; militant activists in Atlanta and movie folks in Los Angeles. The result is a marvellously sharp, full picture of contemporary African American lives and experiences.
Author : Mike Cox
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 24,1 MB
Release : 2022-06-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1493064142
From the famed Oregon Trail to the boardwalks of Dodge City to the great trading posts on the Missouri River to the battlefields of the nineteenth-century Indian Wars, there are places all over the American West where visitors can relive the great Western migration that helped shape our history and culture. This guide to the Southwest states of Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas--one of the five-volume Finding the Wild West series--highlights the best preserved historic sites as well as ghost towns, reconstructions, museums, historical markers, statues, works of public art that tell the story of the Old West. Use this book in planning your next trip and for a storytelling overview of America’s Wild West history.
