These books should form the core of your library. If you don’t have them, you should buy them. Now.
If you click on the links here, you will be taken directly to Amazon.com where you can load up your shopping cart with all kinds of goodies. And there is a reason you should do just that. If you do, Luis and I will get a cut of the profits.
Now, it’s not enough of a cut where we’ll be touring Nevada in an 80’ custom diesel pusher motorhome towing a couple of chrome-plated Unimogs. [sigh]
But we might end up with enough for a tank of gas once a year. And each tank of gas brings us closer to a ghost town that is far too dangerous, far too dirty and snake-ridden, and far too troublesome for you to visit.
And that’s what it’s all about, right? Exploring Nevada So You Don’t Have To™. So by buying those books via our web site, you may actually be saving your own life. Something to think about.
Hold your mouse over the picture of each book to see the entire title- Amazon likes to cut it off a bit. And don't let the prices shown freak you out. Often they're available in cheaper soft-cover or even used for a lot cheaper.
From Fence Post to Fiber- Histories of the Telephone Industry in Nevada 1887-1997
Born in Idaho in 1900, Hugh A. Shamberger, graduated from Stanford University with an engineering degree and worked at surveying and engineering jobs in California, arriving in Nevada early in 1929. Shamberger began a new phase of his career, working at mining and engineering in the developing community of Las Vegas. He then entered the state service, first in the State Highway Department, and then in the office of the State Engineer. While in this office Shamberger pioneered several techniques of studying the water resources of his adopted state, and wrote of his researches in several monographs that are widely used. 
