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[contents page, page vii; blank verso page viii] Contents List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Where Three Worlds Met 1 Chapter 1. The First Settlers Arrive, 1851 @@@ Chapter 2. Indians, Emigrants, and Grand Ideas @@@ Chapter 3. The Cursed Black Stuff @@@ Chapter 4. The Mormons Take Charge, 1855 @@@ Chapter 5. James Crane Explains It All, 1857 @@@ Chapter 6. The Mormons Depart, the Groshes Return, 1857 @@@ Chapter 7. Devils Reign, 1858 @@@ Chapter 8. Bonanza, 1859 @@@ Chapter 9. An Indian for Breakfast and a Pony to Ride, 1860 @@@ Chapter 10. Such a Motley Crowd: The 1860 Census @@@ Chapter 11. Territory! 1861 @@@ Epilogue: Ghosts Who Walk @@@ Notes @@@ Bibliography @@@ Index @@@
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Nevada -- History.
Frontier and pioneer life -- Nevada.
Nevada -- Ethnic relations.