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Valley of Fire State Park Hiking Trail Scenery $10.59 Maxwell Photo Art Poster Scenic photograph taken along a hiking trail in the Valley of Fire State Park located near Las Vegas, Nevada. This image is used to create art prints more than suitable for framing and wall decor hangings. Valley of Fire State Park Photo Art Prints & Posters Maxwell image Scenic photograph taken along a hiking trail in the Valley of Fire State Park located near Las Vegas, Nevada. This image is used to create art prints more than suitable for framing and wall decor hangings. This image is cropped for 8" x 12" and 12" x 18" prints and posters. Valley of Fire State Park Photo Art Prints & Posters Maxwell image Scenic photograph taken along a hiking trail in the Valley of Fire State Park located near Las Vegas, Nevada. This image is used to create art prints more than suitable for framing and wall decor hangings. This image cropped for 8" x 12" and 12" x 18" prints and posters. Valley of Fire State Park Photo Art Print, 8" x 10" Maxwell image Scenic photograph taken along a hiking trail in the Valley of Fire State Park located near Las Vegas, Nevada. This image is used to create art prints more than suitable for framing and wall decor hangings. Lost in Delirium 2010 $19.79 Lost in Delirium Calendar 2010 Claendar

Zephyr Cove 2 Lisa Vorderbrueggen image Snow on the beach at Zephyr Cove, Lake Tahoe, Nevada. Jan. 10, 2009. Photo by Lisa Vorderbrueggen Valley of Fire State Park Photo Art Print 8 Maxwell image Photograph taken along a hiking trail in the Valley of Fire State Park, located about 1 1/2 hours north of Las Vegas, Nevada. Sunset over Vegas Marti Chavarria image Hoover Dam image Random-12 image

Random-13 image Random-14 image Trees & Flowers 18 items set Budding color. Timeless trees. Overdone Cat D image Mt. Charleston Rate my photo: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Moon over Arizona, California, and Nevada image Composed of 3 pictures all from California and Arizona. The moon did set over Arizona, but the mountains were too flat. This mountain was 75 miles away and photographed from Prescott, AZ. I stretched it a bit and added it to the moon. The endless road was in the California desert.

Valley of Fire, Nevada Deb Markham image Rainbow Vista, Nevada Deb Markham image The Closing of the Public Domain $21.52 E. Louise Peffer Book The Closing of the Public Domain Disposal and Reservation Policies, 1900-1950 E. Lousie Peffer On June 17, 1902, the 56th Congress of the United States passed the Reclamation--or Newlands-Act, which allocated the proceeds of future sales of public lands to the irrigation of the arid West. Federally sponsored reclamation was the last of the great developmental projects of the country to be subsidized initially by proceeds from the public domain. In its major aspect, the act represented a continuation of an established pattern of policy. In another respect, however, it gave indication of a new trend in policy for the future. In 1900 there were still around 560 million acres open to entry and settlement under the general land laws of the United States, within the continental limits of the country exclusive of Alaska. This was more than a fourth of the land area of the whole country. It was difficult, even impossible, to accept the idea that so vast an area could not long be expected to furnish homes. Indeed, the Reclamation Act was intended to push far into the future the time when consideration of such an eventuality would be necessary. By the most optimistic estimates, reclamation, chiefly by irrigation, would in time bring 100 million acres into cultivation-and the tendency was to accept the most optimistic figure. Furthermore, the non-irrigable land was not worthless; some of it was valuable for forests, some for minerals, some as range. Consequently it was hardly likely that the country could be brought to believe that the frontier of opportunity afforded by the public domain was closed, as Frederick Jackson Turner, in his famous hypothesis advanced in 1893, had suggested the geographical frontier to be; and that a new policy was dictated. There was, however, a small but dynamic body of opinion which cited, as evidence of the need for change, the very arguments advanced against a change of policy. The public land policy of the United States has been described as having fallen into three phases: sale, development, and reservation. The Reclamation Act bridged the three, using as expedients in aid of further development the old principle of sale and the new principle of reservation. The resort to the reservation principle in the Reclamation Act did not constitute Congressional acceptance of the idea it represented. It did, however, point the direction in which public land policy was to travel in the twentieth century. In its main outline, the story of the public domain in the twentieth century is one of a tug of war between the forces advocating the continuation of the process of settlement and development, and the growing number of those maintaining that the equity of the public in the valuable resources which remained should not be dissipated. It is a struggle which continues actively today in spite of the apparent victory achieved by the reservationists in the passage of the Taylor Grazing Act in 1934. This act, as amended, virtually closed both the public domain and one of the most significant and colorful epochs of American history. This study does not purport to be a history of the public domain in the twentieth century. Nor can it present a full coverage of the phase of public domain history implied by the title; for the latter period, much of the material necessary to round out the account is not yet open to public scrutiny. It is proposed to relate, on the basis of the sources which are available, the steps by which the concept of the public domain has veered from one of land held in escrow pending transfer of title, toward one of reservations held in perpetuity in the interest of the collective owners, the people of the United States. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the 1951 original edition: Title: The Closing of the Public Domain Author: E. Louise Peffer Publisher: Stanford University Press 1951 ISBN: 080473237X Tales of the Pioneers $14.64 W. A. Chalfant Book W.A. Chalfant, dean of California newspaper editors, has chronicled the history of the California-Nevada border as he himself heard it recounted or saw it occur during his fifty-five years of continuous service as editor of The Inyo Register of Bishop, California. The author tells of the country, of its inhabitants, of the ups and downs of some of the camps, of its prospectors, of the luck, good or bad, rather than recounting only the deeds and activities of a few of the "headline" characters of the old days. Chalfant's anecdotes are not the "tall tales" that grow taller with each retelling, and are probably the more interesting for that reason. One that appealed particularly to the publishers is in the chapter on "Law as It Was Administered." We hope you like it: It is related that magistrates of the early courts of the Far West included men of widely varying character and ability, from men who were very capable "to the Bodie justice of rabbit-like powers of decision who, after prolonged arguments by opposing attorneys, threw the issue back in their laps with the statesmen: 'You'll have to settle it between yourselves; I can't make heard nor tail of it.' " The author: W. A. ("Bill") Chalfant was born in Virginia City, Nevada, and has lived all of his life in the high Sierra country. In 1885 his family moved to Bishop, and there in 1885 started The Inyo Register. His life has been full of action, of editorial battles fought and won, of civic leadership that is typical of a man who knows well whereof he speaks -- and writes. For years he has been gathering the material which is included in this book. This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition: Tales of the Pioneers Willie Arthur Chalfant Stanford University Press, 1942 129 pages Find more reproduction works from Stanford University Press at QOOP.com Mono Lake image Mono Lake is an alkaline and hypersaline lake in California

Bodie image Bodie, a ghost town on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California Lake Tahoe image Lake Tahoe is a large freshwater lake in the Sierra Nevada mountains of the United States. It is located along the border between California and Nevada Lake Tahoe image Lake Tahoe is a large freshwater lake in the Sierra Nevada mountains of the United States. It is located along the border between California and Nevada Mono Lake image Mono Lake is an alkaline and hypersaline lake in California Mono Lake image Mono Lake is an alkaline and hypersaline lake in California

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