Hal K. Rothman

Author of Devil's Bargains: Tourism in the Twentieth-Century American West

About the Author

He is a leading historian of the American West, especially of the environment in the West. Holding a Ph. D. in American studies from the University of Texas, he teaches at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His book Devil's Bargains: Tourism in the Twentieth Century American West received the show more Western Writers of America's Spur Award for Best Contemporary Non-Fiction in 1999. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Works by Hal K. Rothman

Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century (2002) 38 copies, 1 review

The Greening of a Nation?: Environmentalism in the U.S. Since 1945 (Harbrace Books on America Since 1945) (1997) 22 copies

Reopening the American West (1998) 22 copies

The Grit Beneath the Glitter: Tales from the Real Las Vegas (2002) 22 copies, 1 review

Saving the Planet: The American Response to the Environment in the Twentieth Century (2000) 22 copies

Death Valley National Park: A History (America's National Parks) (2013) 15 copies

LBJ's Texas White House: "Our Heart's Home." (2001) 14 copies

On Rims and Ridges: The Los Alamos Area Since 1880 (1992) 12 copies

Preserving Different Pasts: The American National Monuments (1989) 11 copies

Blazing Heritage: A History of Wildland Fire in the National Parks (2007) 10 copies

America's National Monuments: The Politics of Preservation (1994) 9 copies

The Culture of Tourism, The Tourism of Culture: Selling the Past to the Present in the American Southwest (2003) 8 copies

The Making of Modern Nevada (2010) 8 copies

"I'll Never Fight Fire with My Bare Hands Again": Recollections of the First Forest Rangers of the Inland Northwest (1994) 7 copies

Playing the Odds: Las Vegas and the Modern West (2007) 4 copies

The new urban park : Golden Gate National Recreation Area and civic environmentalism (2004) 3 copies

Bandelier National Monument : an administrative history 2 copies

A tradition of caring, 1889-1989 (1988) 1 copy

A History of the Medical Staff at St. Francis Regional Medical Center, Wichita, Kansas 1 copy

Navajo National Monument: A place and its people : an administrative history (1991) 1 copy

American Eden: An Administrative History of Olympic National Park 1 copy

Encyclopedia of American National Parks (2004) 1 copy

The park that makes its own weather : an administrative history of Golden Gate National Recreation Area (2002) 1 copy

LBJ's Texas White House: "our heart's home." 1 copy

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Associated Works

Power and Place in the North American West (1999) — Contributor — 15 copies

Utah Historical Quarterly, Vol. 55, No. 3 (Summer, 1987) (1987) — Contributor — 2 copies

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Gender: male
Education: (PhD)
Organizations: Futurepast: The History Co. (senior vice president)

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mrtall 395 reviews

Neon Metropolis by Hal Rothman

An odd book. It's generally a fun read, and there's lots of interesting background on America's most fasinating city. But Rothman has an overeager authorial voice, and the book isn't particularly well-organized, with a lot of repetition. A good editor could have raised Neon Metropolis's rating by at least one star.

Jan 18, 2007

jmatson 64 reviews

The Grit Beneath the Glitter: Tales from the Real Las Vegas by Hal Rothman

Second half of the book becomes more interesting and better written.

Dated material at this point as the book was published in 2002.

If you're interested in Las Vegas this would be a decent read.

Feb 22, 2012