Selected Books about Las Vegas and Nevada

Green Felt Jungle. By Ovid Demaris. Trident Press. 1963.

History of Nevada. By Russell R. Elliott, University of Nebraska Press. 1987.

Las Vegas. By Deke Castleman. Compass American Guides. 2001.

Las Vegas. As it began—as it grew. By Stanley W. Paher. Nevada Publications. 1971.

Las Vegas—Then and Now. By Su Kim Chung. Thunder Bay Press. 2002.

Sun, Sin & Suburbia. An Essential History of Modern Las Vegas. By Geoff Schumacher. Stephens Press. 2004.

The Man Who Invented Las Vegas. By W. R. Wilkerson III. Ciro's Books. 2000.

The Money and the Power: The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America. By Sally Denton and Roger Morris. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2001.

The Nevada Adventure. By James W. Hulse. University of Nevada Press. 1981.

A Short History of Las Vegas. By Barbara Land and Myrick Land. University of Nevada Press. 1999.

Skin City. By Jack Sheehan. Stephens Press, Las Vegas. 2004.

Winner Takes All. By Christina Binkley. Hyperion, New York. 2008.

See www.stephenspress.com for a large selection of books about the Las Vegas area.