Berkeley, CA: The Friends of Bancroft Library, 1972. First edition - Number 20 in the Keepsakes series produced for members of The Friends of the Bancroft Library. Three different scenarios of a mining incident in Nevada Territory are presented - the final version is Chapter 34 in Twain's Roughing It. Includes background historical material and editorial comment by Frederick Anderson and Edgar M. Branch. No. 20 in series of Keepsakes of Friends of the Bancroft Library. Designed and printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy. Illustrated. Fold-out page reprint from the Daily Call with a letter from Mark Twain attached inside back cover. 64 pp.

Salt Lake City: Dream Garden Press, 1981. First edition - Stories of a working cattle ranch.. "The Fiddleback is a cow outfit in central Nevada. It is a brand that does not blotch under the iron and it is one that defies attempts to work it over. Much the same can be said of its owner, Emma Rogers, and the hands who work for her." Illustrated. Glossary (a 'working vocabulary.') 234 pp. ISBN: 0-9604402-59.

New York: Arno Press, 1974. Hardcover - Originally published in 1878. Folding frontispiece map. The author, a member of Parliament, traveled from Halifax in Nova Scotia, to Boston, New York, Saratoga, etc, and then went across to the Pacific and back on the Union Pacific Railroad, taking in the California sites, including Yosemite. Vivian visited Utah and includes notes on the Mormons and polygamy. As a metallurgist, he devotes a significant amount of attention to the mining districts and the mineral resources of Nevada, Utah and California. Comments on the Chinese questions, frequent statements like loving the "darkies" and preferring "the niggers, etc." A title in the Foreign Travelers in America, 1810-1935 series. iii, 260 pp. ISBN: 0-405-054769.

New York: Harper Perennial, (2018). First edition - A contemporary Western novel about finding your way, finalist for the Pen/Faulkner Award, and an ALA Notable Book. Horace Hopper is a half-Paiute, half-Irish ranch hand who has spent most of his life on the ranch of his kindly guardians, Mr. and Mrs. Reese, herding sheep alone in the mountains of Nevada. The Reeses treat him like a son, but he can't shake the shame he feels from being abandoned by his parents, and so he decides to leave and prove his worth by training to become a boxer. Vlautin's books have been praised by such diverse writers as Craig Johnson, Ursula Le Guin, Ann Patchett and many others. 269 pp

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. First edition - An extensively researched and sensitive portrait of Sarah, daughter of Chief Winnemucca in north western Nevada, and the granddaughter of Chief Truckee. A pioneering educator, interpretor, author of what is believed to be the first book by a Native American woman, she worked tirelessly on behalf of her people. Illustrated with photographs.A title in the American Indian Lives series. Map,notes, bibliography. xi, 356 pp.