Title: nothing serious about this history
Product review: Maybe not a bad book, but close. There are much better histories of Nevada and even of Reno (William Rowley's, for instance). There is a map of the original town plan, or I would have given it but one star.The authors seem to have based their research on a book they were too shy to include in their bibliography, Gilman Ostrander's "Nevada, the Great Rotten Borough." (Even when they take quotes from Ostrander, they get them wrong, such as Yerington's quote about horse thieves!)They have photos from Don Dondero's Dateline Reno that aren't from that book. What a mess!Nice idea to take a Look Magazine approach to Reno, but this is hollower than a gourd. UNR Press should recall it before someone gets injured reading it.
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