San Antonio College Library

The words of native Navadans and a picture essay on Nevada as it is today accent a narrative review of the state's historical development and the diverse facets of its makeup.

A guide to the plants, animals, climate, geology, physical features, and human influence in the Sierra Nevada.

Examines the geography, geology, vegetation and wildlife of the Sierra Nevada mountain region of California and Nevada.

The Las Vegas Strip has impersonated the Wild West, with saloon doors and wagon wheels; it has decked itself out in midcentury modern sleekness. It has illuminated itself with twenty-story-high neon signs, then junked them. After that came Disney-like theme parks featuring castles and pirates, followed by replicas of Venetian canals, New York skyscrapers, and the Eiffel Tower. (It might be noted that forty-two million people visited Las Vegas in 2015...

Paying tribute to Ansel Adams and the California Sierra Nevada wilderness area named in his honor, a National Geographic photographer captures the fragile beauty of the High Sierras through the modern lens of digital photography.