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Buckaroos in Paradise - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ncrhtml/crhome.html
Online documentation of a Nevada cattle-ranching community, with a focus on the family-run Ninety-Six Ranch, by the Paradise Valley Folklife Project (1978-1982). Articles, plus audio and video files. |
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Anno Atomi: Growing Up with the Atom - http://www.aracnet.com/~histgaz/atomi/
Anno Atomi documents the atmospheric atomic bomb tests conducted at the Nevada Test Site during 1957. Compiled using government press releases, and images, with comments by soldiers and citizens these detonations are known as Operation Plumbbob. |
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Carl Albert Purpus - http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/Purpus/
Pioneer plant collector and writer in Western America around the late 1900s. Site describes findings, writings and travels, many of which were in Nevada. |
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The Atomic Duty of Bill Bires - http://www.aracnet.com/~histgaz/atomi/bires/
This is a short history of Pvt. Bill Bires' military duty with the 231st Engineer Combat Battalion from Ft. Lewis, Washington. Co. He was assigned temporary duty at the Atomic Test Series in the Nevada desert in the fall of 1951. |
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Trails West, Inc. - http://www.emigranttrailswest.org
Trails West is a nonprofit group of volunteers who identify and mark the mid-1800's emigrant trail into California. |