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Book SynopsisTraces the transformation of Reno’s reputation from backward railroad town to the nationally known ‘Sin Central’ - as Garrison Keillor observed, a place where you could see things that you wouldn’t want to see in your own hometown.
Trade ReviewNo place has worked harder than ‘the biggest little city in the world’ to shape its identity and reputation. Alicia Barber tells a fascinating story about the ways that insiders and outsiders have constructed and reconstructed Reno’s image in pursuit of the big bonanza of economic growth." - Carl Abbott, author of
The Metropolitan Frontier: Cities in the Modern American West and Greater Portland: Urban Life and Landscape in the Pacific NorthwestTable of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction: Becoming “The Biggest Little City”
1. “In the Middle of a Frightful Plain”: The Quest for a Reputation
2. “A Frontier Post of Civilization”: Chasing Modernity in the Progressive Era
3. Selling Reno in the Consumer Age
4. “City of Sinful Fun”: Reno Hits the Mainstream
5. Big City Struggles in the Biggest Little City
6. A New Reno for the New Millennium
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Bibliography
Index
