Urbanism and Empire in the Far West, 1840-1890

Eugene P. Moehring is professor of history at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas. He is also the author of Resort City in the Sunbelt: Las Vegas, 1930-2000 and of Urbanism and Empire in the Far West, 1840-1890 (both published by the University of Nevada Press). Michael S. Green is professor of history at the Community College of Southern Nevada. He is the editor (with Gary E. Elliott) of Nevada: Readings and Perspectives, the author of Nevada: A Journey of Discovery, editor in chief of the Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, and has published a number of articles on Western history.

"This important book will fill a gap in the literature and, in its comprehensive treatment of the development of urban networks across all areas of the Far Western states, should become a definitive, much quoted work." - Timothy R. Mahoney, author of River Towns of the Great West: The Structure of Provincial Urbanization on the American Midwest, 1820-1870"