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Nevada Heartland: The Place Names of Carson City, Douglas, Lyon and Storey Counties, Nevada [SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR]
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Title: Nevada Heartland: The Place Names of Carson City, Douglas, Lyon and Storey Counties, Nevada

Author: Mary B. Ansari, L.H.D.
Year: 2015
Format: 301 pages
Publisher: LeRue Press, LLC

"No one writing today knows more about the geographic names of northwestern Nevada’s core historic section than Mary Ansari. Beginning in the mid-1980s, she published four volumes about the place names of Storey, Ormsby (now Carson City), Lyon, and Douglas counties, as well as a book about the names of mines and mills of the Comstock. These exhaustively researched publications provided the most complete information up to then about the names found on maps of those counties—their origins, meanings, and even data on important events or personalities associated with them.

Now, she has revised and expanded the material from her earlier books and brought it together in a new work that is the definitive place name reference for what is really the “heartland” of Nevada, the area where the state’s initial nineteenth century economic, political, and community development occurred.

Far from being a rote listing of similar facts about one site after another, Nevada Heartland is, in effect, a fascinating discussion about the landscape of an important region of our state. It is full of history, obviously, and much of that makes for quite entertaining reading. One can dip into the book at any point and find not only significant information about the name of a specific place, but also little-known facts or stories relating to the site.

We, and the many others who will read or consult it in the future, are fortunate to at last have in our hands this culmination of the author’s exceptional, decades-long work in the field of Nevada geographic names."