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Bright Lights in the Desert: The Latter-day Saints of Las Vegas
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Reno, NV
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University of Nevada Press
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"Bright Lights in the Desert explores the history of how members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Las Vegas have improved the regions’ neighborhoods, inspired educational institutions, brought integrity to the marketplace, and provided wholesome entertainment and cultural refinement. The LDS influence has helped shape the metropolitan city because of its members’ focus on family values and community service.
Woods discusses how, through their beliefs and work ethics, they have impacted the growth of the area from the time of their first efforts to establish a mission in 1855 through the present day. Bright Lights in the Desert reveals Las Vegas as more than just a tourist destination and shows the LDS community’s commitment to making it a place of deep religious faith and devotion to family." [Summary from Amazon] -
200 Years in Nevada : A Story of People Who Opened, Explored and Developed the Land
A Gamble in the Desert : The Mormon Mission in Las Vegas (1855-1857)
A Historical Study of the Growth of the LDS Church in Clark County, Nevada
A Matter of Faith : A Study of the Muddy Mission
Autobiography of George W. Bean : A Utah Pioneer of 1847
Brigham Young, the Colonizer
Early Mormon Settlements in Southern Nevada
Encyclopedia of Latter-day Saint History
Encyclopedia of Mormonism : The History, Scripture, Doctrine, and Procedures of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Encyclopedic History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Extracts from the Life Sketch of Nathaniel V. Jones
Great Basin Kingdom : An Economic History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900
History May Be Searched in Vain : A Military History of the Mormon Battalion
History of Las Vegas Mission
John Woodhouse : His Pioneer Journal, 1830-1916
Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia
Membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1848
Mormon Indian Missions--1855
Nevada, Pioneer Settlements in
Our Pioneer Heritage
Saints in Babylon : Mormons and Las Vegas
Saints in Sin City : Religion and Community Building in Twentieth-Century Las Vegas
Secularization and the Religious Audience : A Study of Mormons and Las Vegas Media
Southern Cross Saints : The Mormons in Australia
Strange Bedfellows : Mormon and Miners in Southern Nevada
The Influence of the Mormon People in the Settlement of Clark County
The Journal of George W. Bean : Las Vegas Springs, New Mexico Territory, 1856-57
The Mormons in Carson County, Utah Territory
The Mormons in Nevada
The Mormon Trail : A History of the Salt Lake to Los Angeles Route to 1869
The Overland Journey from Utah to California : Wagon Travel from the City of the Saints to the City of Angels
Thomas E. Ricks : Colonizer and Founder