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The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
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Native Americans have been a constant fixture on television, from the dawn of broadcasting, when the iconic Indian head test pattern was frequently used during station sign-ons and sign-offs, to the present. In this first comprehensive history of indigenous people in television sitcoms, Dustin Tahmahkera examines the way Native people have been represented in the genre. Analyzing dozens of television comedies from the United States and Canada, Tahmahkera...
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Publisher
KNPB Channel 5 Public Broadcasting
Pub. Date
[2009].
Description
Oral histories from U.S.S. Nevada veterans attending the Pearl Harbor 50th anniversary ceremonies are combined with archival photographs and motion pictures to tell the story of the "ship that wouldn't sink."A unique documentary that tells the story of the U.S.S. Nevada BB-36 from her beginnings in 1916 until she was intentionally sunk by the U.S. Navy in 1948. The Nevada was the only battleship to get underway during the Japanese attack on Pearl...
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Publisher
KNPB Channel 5 Public Broadcasting
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Sarah Winnemucca was a central figure during one of the most important times in Nevada's history. This documentary explains the fascinating story of her development as the spokesperson for the Paiute people through historic photographs, reenactments, and interviews with leading historians and chroniclers of Nevada's history.
Series
Publisher
KNPB Channel 5 Public Broadcasting
Pub. Date
[2009].
Description
This traces the life of a man who was the major force in shaping the modern state of Nevada. The young cowboy from Oregon struck it rich in Goldfield in 1906 and became the dominant economic and political figure in the state. His investments in banks and hotels fostered the divorce industry and laid the basis for the state's modern tourism economy. After depression-induced failure of his banks, he made a second fortune from the Getchell Mine. Interviews...
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Publisher
KNPB Channel 5 Public Broadcasting
Pub. Date
[2009].
Description
"'The Lincoln Highway in Nevada' recounts the building of the Nevada section of the nation's earliest and most celebrated transcontinental highway. The Lincoln Highway Association boasted in 1916 that motorists could speed over the road on a 'journey which is made coast to coast in twenty days with nothing but enjoyment from one end to the other' ... The Lincoln Highway in Nevada travels the old road across the state while road experts and historians...
Series
Nevada experience volume 1001
Publisher
KNPB Channel 5 Public Broadcasting
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
In 1900 a new mining boom brought economic vigor to Nevada. It opened a decade of growth and change.
Series
Publisher
KNPB Channel 5 Public Broadcasting
Pub. Date
[2009].
Description
Discusses who the typical women of the Comstock were and looks at the contributions of needleworkers, lodging house operators, and the Daughters of Charity to the economy and welfare of the community of Virginia City and the Comstock Lode.
12) Nevada's neon
Series
Publisher
KNPB Channel 5 Public Broadcasting
Pub. Date
[2009].
Description
Includes interviews with artists, designers and architects and shots of neon to examine the historical and contemporary uses of neon in Nevada. Also documents the rise and fall in popularity of neon, explores how business and art merge in the use of neon, and analyzes how much Nevada and neon mean to each other.
Series
Publisher
KNPB Channel 5 Public Broadcasting
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
This video about the history of Reno consists of three parts. The biggest little arch "traces the history of the Reno Arch from its beginnings as part of a highway promotion, through its three versions and a brush with demolition, to its current position as a social icon" (container label). Part two features Warren Nelson, who is "often called 'The Father of Keno', a game he developed for casino use from an ancient Chinese lottery game" (container...
Series
Publisher
KNPB Channel 5 Public Broadcasting
Pub. Date
[2009].
Description
"Nevada's history is rich with bold, innovative and brave women who have shaped the silver state over the past centry. Pioneers such as Maya Miller, Bertha Mullins and Sue Wagner paved the way for the opportunities that await women in politics today. This is the story of the obstacles they faced and the determination and dedication that overcame them"--Container.
Series
Publisher
KNPB Channel 5 Public Broadcasting
Pub. Date
[2009].
Description
Retraces the journey of gold seekers and pioneers through a forty-mile stretch of desert in what is now Nevada. This desert came near the end of their trip when they were tired, their supplies were low, they were suffering from a lack of good water, and it was late summer and the weather was hot.
Series
Publisher
KNPB Channel 5 Public Broadcasting
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Traces the development of the first federal reclamation project in the West, the Newlands Project, from its conception in the 1880s through the enactment of the Newlands Bill in 1902 through the controversy of recent years.
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