A History of Pahrump, Nevada [Hardcover]

Robert D. McCracken (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 192 pages
• Publisher: Nye Country Pr (January 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1878138510
• ISBN-13: 978-1878138514
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.8 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,246,434 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars One Star Rating Because There's No Zero Star Rating, August 23, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: A History of Pahrump, Nevada (Hardcover)

Lackluster prose. Research Lite. Curious choice of interviewees, to be generous to the author.

Those who know Nye County (NV) better, know better. The real history of Pahrump will probably be written by a hard-working graduate student armed with a tape recorder, a shoestring budget, and keen judgement.

This supposed "history" was ultimately funded by Department of Energy as part of its obiligation to local communities that will be affected by the proposed high-level nulcear waste repository nearby Yucca Mountain. Your tax dollars at work. Ugh....

The University of Nevada Presses don't exactly match Yale's or Harvard's, but you've got to wonder about standards and why they agreed to act as distributor, once this volume and the rest of the series were printed.

An embarrassment all around.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the better researched books out there, May 4, 2003

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Fletcher Chmara-Huff "Geography Guy" (Granville, OH United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A History of Pahrump, Nevada (Hardcover)

I don't know what the other two reviewers read, but this is one of the better written southern Nevada histories I have read. Well documented, and it exposes some of the more unpleasant parts of Pahrump history.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't bother with it., August 27, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: A History of Pahrump, Nevada (Hardcover)

Poor writing. Inadequate research and documentation. Limited + skewed sample of interviewees.

One would expect this quality from a self-published book.