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

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  • 979.3135 N676 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York : Nation Books, [2014]

Physical Description

xxiv, 292 pages : map ; 25 cm

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.

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