Restless strangers : Nevada's immigrants and their interpreters / by Wilbur S. Shepperson
- Bib ID:
- 1047055
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Shepperson, Wilbur S. (Wilbur Stanley)
- Online Version:
- Table of contents
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- Description:
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- Reno : University of Nevada Press, 1970
- xiv, 287 p. : illus., map, ports. ; 21 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0874170281
- Series:
- The Lancehead series: Nevada and the West
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: The Nevada Setting i
- PART ONE The Immigrants
- 1 Settlement in a Fluid Society 13
- Migratory Patterns 13
- Social Organization 18
- Economic Success 24
- Political and Professional Activity 34
- 2 Immigrant Response to Nevada Life 45
- Approval, Criticism, and Mobility 47
- Materialism, Discrimination,
- and Americanization 55
- PART Two The Immigrants' Interpreters
- 3 Early Journalists and Novelists 69
- Three Pathfinders 70
- Literary Contrasts 80
- 4 Newspaper Themes 91
- Humor and Fakery 93
- Color and Off-Color Ioo
- Initiative and Enterprise io8
- Distrust and Discrimination 115
- Rivalry and Conflict 133
- Loneliness and Despair 147
- 5 Immigrants in Fiction 159
- The Western Motif 163
- The Bonanza Feature 173
- The Isolation Mystique 183
- The Reminiscence Syndrome 196
- Two Images of Nevada 205
- 6 Short Stories and Biographical Essays 217
- Oft-Told Tales 218
- Historical Biographies 229
- 7 The Frustrated and the Fulfilled 237
- Bibliography 247
- Index 259.
- Notes:
- Bibliography: p. [247]-257.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
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