Letters from the Nevada frontier : correspondence of Tasker L. Oddie, 1898-1902 / edited by William A. Douglass and Robert A. Nylen.

Of the many easterners who went west at the close of the nineteenth century, Tasker L. Oddie was one of the most purposeful. The twenty-seven-year-old attorney and business executive from East Orange, New Jersey, moved to Austin, Nevada, in 1898 as secretary of the Nevada Company, which had mining i...

Full description