Letters from the Nevada Frontier: Correspondence of Tasker L.Oddie, 1898-1902 - Hardcover

Oddie, Tasker L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0806124482 ISBN 13: 9780806124483

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992

Synopsis

Oddie, a 27-year-old attorney and business executive from East Orange, New Jersey, moved to Austin, Nevada in 1898 as secretary of a mining company and had an eventful, adventurous career, culminating in his election to the U.S. Senate. His letters are entertaining and illuminating. Annotation copyr

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""The skillfully edited Letters from the Nevada Frontier "offers a penetrating account of the uneven and often painful processes that were part and parcel of Western conquest.... [T]he collection succeeds in rendering insight into the human dimensions of the rough-and-ready West."

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0806124482
• ISBN 13: 9780806124483
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 416
• Editor: Douglass William A., Nylen Robert A.