- Anno Atomi: Growing Up with the Atom
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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/
- Atmospheric Atomic Tests
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Visual link between atmospheric tests, maps depicting the path of radioactive cloud, the fallout they deposited and the radioactivity thyroids were exposed to.
http://www.NuclearFiles.org/maps/index.html
- Buckaroos in Paradise
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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
- Carl Albert Purpus
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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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