Unreal City: Las Vegas, Black Mesa, and the Fate of the West
by Judith Nies
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An epic struggle over land, water, and power is erupting in the American West and the halls of Washington, DC. It began when a 4,000-square-mile area of Arizona desert called Black Mesa was divided between the Hopi and Navajo tribes. To the outside world, it was a land struggle between two fractious Indian tribes; to political insiders and energy corporations, it was a divide-and-conquer play for the 21 billion tons of coal beneath Black Mesa. Today, that coal powers cheap electricity for show more Los Angeles, a new water aqueduct into Phoenix, and the neon dazzle of Las Vegas.Journalist a show lessTags
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Judith Nies has worked as a journalist, teacher, historian, researcher, and corporate speechwriter. The author of three books, including the classic biography Nine Women, she teaches a course on memoir as history and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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- 979.3 — History & geography History of North America Great Basin and Pacific Slope region of United States Nevada
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- F787 .N54 — Local History of the United States, Canada and Latin America United States local history New Southwest. Colorado River, Canyon, and Valley
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