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Unreal city : Las Vegas, Black Mesa, and the fate of the West / Judith Nies.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nies, Judith, 1941-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Coal mines and mining.
- History.
- Indians of North America.
- Social conditions.
- Coal mines and mining--Political aspects.
- Southwest, New--History--20th century.
- Southwest, New.
- Las Vegas (Nev.)--History--20th century.
- Las Vegas (Nev.).
- Coal mines and mining--Political aspects--Southwest, New.
- Black Mesa (Navajo County and Apache County, Ariz.)--History--20th century.
- Black Mesa (Navajo County and Apache County, Ariz.).
- Indians of North America--Arizona--Black Mesa (Navajo County and Apache County)--Social conditions--20th century.
- Coal mines and mining--Southwest, New--History--20th century.
- New Southwest.
- Arizona--Black Mesa (Navajo County and Apache County).
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 292 pages : map ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Nation Books, [2014]
- Contents:
- Everyone comes for the money
- Goldwater and the Desert Inn
- The ladiies 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-280) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781568587486
- 1568587481
- 9781568584874
- 1568584873
- OCLC:
- 865574931
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