About the Author

Eugene P. Moehring is professor of history at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas. He is also the author of Resort City in the Sunbelt: Las Vegas, 1930-2000 and of Urbanism and Empire in the Far West, 1840-1890 (both published by the University of Nevada Press). Michael S. Green is professor of history at the Community College of Southern Nevada. He is the editor (with Gary E. Elliott) of Nevada: Readings and Perspectives, the author of Nevada: A Journey of Discovery, editor in chief of the Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, and has published a number of articles on Western history.