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Unreal city

Las Vegas, Black Mesa, and the fate of the West

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An edition of Unreal city (2014)

Unreal city

Las Vegas, Black Mesa, and the fate of the West

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Describes the darker side of the history of Las Vegas and Black Mesa, Arizona, including the relocation of fifteen thousand Navajo to mine coal for cheap electricity for the Vegas Strip and the precipitous drop in the water level of Lake Mead.

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Nation Books
Language
English
Pages
292

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Subjects
Social conditions, Coal mines and mining, Indians of North America, History, Southwest, new, history, Las vegas (nev.), Nevada, history, Indians of north america, social conditions
Places
Las Vegas (Nev.), Arizona, Black Mesa (Navajo County and Apache County, Ariz.), Black Mesa (Navajo County and Apache County), New Southwest
Times
20th century

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Unreal city: Las Vegas, Black Mesa, and the fate of the West
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Table of Contents

Everyone comes for the money
Goldwater and the Desert Inn
The ladies from Black Mesa
Founding myths : Laughlin, Nevada
Gilded age land grabs
The Indian lawyer and a brief history of coal
The Mormon West
Legal theft
Learning from Las Vegas
Chinatown 2
The Bechtel family business
Roberta Blackgoat's world
Epilogue: who will pay? Gambling on the future.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-280) and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
979.3/135
Library of Congress
F787 .N54 2014

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxiv, 292 pages
Number of pages
292

ID Numbers

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OL27160094M
ISBN 10
1568587481
ISBN 13
9781568587486
LCCN
2013048336
OCLC/WorldCat
865574931

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