Deep in the
desolate Mojave Desert in Nevada’s
extreme southern tip lies a small mining town called
Searchlight This
meticulously researched book by Searchlight’s most
distinguished native son
recounts the colorful history of the town and the lives of the hardy people who built it and sustained a community in one of the least hospitable environments in the United States. Its story encompasses both Nevada’s early twentieth-century mining boom and the phenomenal growth of southern Nevada after World War II.
Searchlight is a valuable contribution to the history of Nevada and a lively account of life in the forbidding depths of the Mojave Desert.
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