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      Cover image for The Infamous King of the Comstock: William Sharon and the Gilded Age in the West
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      The Infamous King of the Comstock: William Sharon and the Gilded Age in the West

      Michael J. Makley

      Presents the biography of William Sharon, one of Nevada’s most reviled historical figures. This book discusses the broader historical context of Sharon’s career - the complex business relationships between San…

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      Saving Lake Tahoe: An Environmental History of a National Treasure

      Michael J. Makley

      Explores the interaction through the years between human activities and Lake Tahoe’s natural ecosystems. It is a dramatic story of ecological disasters and near misses, political successes and failures. Utilising…

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      John Mackay: Silver King in the Gilded Age

      Michael J. Makley

      From the early 1870s until his death in 1902, John Mackay was among the richest men in the world and was without a doubt the wealthiest man to emerge from…

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      Open Spaces, Open Rebellions: The War over America’s Public Lands

      Michael J. Makley

      Offers a succinct and compelling history of the US federal government’s management of public lands. As Michael J. Makley reveals, beginning in the nineteenth century and continuing to the present…

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      Imposing Order without Law: American Expansion to the Eastern Sierra, 1850-1865

      Michael J. Makley

      Examines the history surrounding nineteenth century American settlers in two remote regions - the slopes of the Eastern Sierra Nevada and the Honey Lake Valley - who used extralegal means…

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      Cave Rock: Climbers, Courts and a Washoe Indian Sacred Place

      Matthew S. Makley,Michael J. Makley

      The story of a momentous legal decision in the history of Native American rights

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