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Anno Atomi: Growing Up with the Atom
Anno Atomi documents the atmospheric atomic bomb tests conducted at the Nevada Test Site during 1957. Compiled using government press releases, and images, with comments by soldiers and citizens these detonations are known as Operation Plumbbob.
http://www.aracnet.com/~histgaz/atomi/
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Buckaroos in Paradise
Online documentation of a Nevada cattle-ranching community, with a focus on the family-run Ninety-Six Ranch, by the Paradise Valley Folklife Project (1978-1982). Articles, plus audio and video files.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ncrhtml/crhome.html
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Carl Albert Purpus
Pioneer plant collector and writer in Western America around the late 1900s. Site describes findings, writings and travels, many of which were in Nevada.
http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/Purpus/
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Nevada Heritage
Dedicated to collecting, compiling and presenting Nevada historical information and materials on the Internet. Contributors are offered free web pages.
http://www.nevadaheritage.com/
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The Atomic Duty of Bill Bires
This is a short history of Pvt. Bill Bires' military duty with the 231st Engineer Combat Battalion from Ft. Lewis, Washington. Co. He was assigned temporary duty at the Atomic Test Series in the Nevada desert in the fall of 1951.
http://www.aracnet.com/~histgaz/atomi/bires/
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