Remembering Las Vegas
The largest city in the United States to be developed entirely within the twentieth century, Las Vegas has always been a unique place. From its beginnings, when two town sites competed to become the new community rising from the desert, to its modern status as a tourism and entertainment center, Las Vegas has always been a town that took chances and seized opportunities.
With a selection of fine historic images from his best-selling book Historic Photos of Las Vegas, Jeff Burbank provides a valuable and revealing historical retrospective on the growth and development of Las Vegas. Remembering Las Vegas captures this story through still photography selected from the finest collections, a visual record of the city’s history presented in more than a hundred historic photographs.
From a dusty tent city to the glittering lights of the most popular tourist destination in the country, these images tell of railroads and ranchers, the Hoover Dam and the Vegas Strip, mining and gambling, visionaries and star performers. Historic events and everyday life are preserved in vivid black-and-white images to tell the story of one of America’s most exciting cities.
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Book details
- Text by
- Jeff Burbank
- Imprint
- Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 134
- Formats
- Paperback
- Series
- Remembering
- Subjects
- History › United States › State & Local › West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
History › United States › State & Local › Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX) - Topics
- Las Vegas history · Nevada history · historic photography · local history · American cities · pictorial history · twentieth century history
- ISBN-13
- 9781683368472
About the author
JEFF BURBANK is a journalist, news editor, and university lecturer in English and journalism, and the author of five books, including Historic Photos of Salt Lake City, Historic Photos of Las Vegas, and Lost Las Vegas.
Burbank’s journalism has appeared in The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Boston Globe. He holds a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, and an M.A. from American University.
When he’s not writing, Burbank has worked as a museum researcher and content writer. His books include License to Steal: Nevada’s Gaming Control System in the Megaresort Age and Las Vegas Babylon, reflecting a long engagement with the history and culture of the American West.
Jeff lives in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he has resided for more than 20 years.