Table of Contents

• PROLOGUE Back Road to Gold Butte
• PART ONE We Join the Revolution Already in Progress
• PART TWO You Don't Need a Reason to Start a Revolution
• PART THREE Ghost Dancing Through Deseret
• PART FOUR Saddle Born
• PART FIVE The Senator from Searchlight
• PART SIX When the Cows Come Home…to Roost
• EPILOGUE Lonesome Bull
• Selected Bibliography
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• Index

About the Author

Nevada native, John L. Smith is a freelance writer, journalist, and author of more than a dozen books, including The Westside Slugger: Joe Neal's Lifelong Fight for Social Justice. He writes an award-winning weekly column for The Nevada Independent, and is a contributor to Nevada Public Radio's “State of Nevada” and a wide range of publications. An award-winning columnist, in 2016 he was inducted into the Nevada Press Association Hall of Fame. In the same year, Smith and his colleagues were honored with the James Foley Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism, the Ancil Payne Award from the University of Oregon, and the Society of Professional Journalists Award for Ethics.

Reviews

What this author brings to the table is a deep understanding of Nevada history and the political rivers running through it. Unlike other writers [on this subject], he understands the state and the players as well as anyone." — Geoff Schumacher, author of Howard Hughes: Power, Paranoia and Palace Intrigue and others