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Notes Preface 1.See Brookings Institution, Blueprint for American Prosperity: Mountain Megas, Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program, 2008. Chapter 1. Of Sin and Salvation 1.From speech given by Turner at Chicago World’s Fair, 1893,http://west.stanford .edu/cgi-bin/pager.php?id=25. 2. Alicia Barber, “Reno’s Silver Legacy: Gambling on the Past in the Urban New West,” in Imagining the Big Open: Nature, Identity and Play in the New West, ed. Liza Nicholas, Elaine M. Bapis, and Thomas J. Harvey (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2003), 204. 3. Deidre Pike, “Leaving the Comstock,” Reno News and Review, May 20, 2004. 4. Interview with Gary Estes, by author, Reno, Nevada, October 19, 2006. 5. Susan Voyles, “Downtown Projects Push City’s Evolution,” Reno GazetteJournal , March 12, 2007. 6. Susan Voyles, “Layering the Foundation for a Great Downtown,” Reno GazetteJournal , March 30, 2005. 7. Interview with Eldon Cannon, by author, Reno, Nevada, December 19, 2006. 8. See the spatial juxtaposition given by D. W. Meinig in “The Mormon Culture Region,” Annals of the American Association of Geographers 55,no. 2 (June 1965):212. 9. The Doctrine and Covenants is a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints scripture that is “a collection of divine revelations and inspired declarations given for the establishment and regulation of the kingdom of God on the earth in the last days.” See http://scriptures.lds.org/dc/contents. 10. Heather May, “A Real Blockbuster,” Salt Lake Tribune, October 4, 2006. 11.William L. Fox, The Void, the Grid and the Sign: Traversing the Great Basin (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2000), 10. 12.Thomas R. Harris, William W. Riggs, and John Zimmerman, Public Lands in the State of Nevada: An Overview, University Center for Economic Development, University of Nevada, 2001. 13. Calculations by author based on data of the U.S. Census Bureau, “Census of Population and Housing,” 2000, http://www.census.gov. 14. Richard V. Francaviglia, Believing in Place: A Spiritual Geography of the Great Basin (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2003), xiv. 15. U.S. Census Bureau, “Census of Population and Housing,” Summary File 1, 2000, http://www.census.gov. 200 Notes 16.There are different measures for Las Vegas’ growth from 2000 to 2005, since its census-designated metro area changed between those years. Some reports put Las Vegas’ five-year growth at as high as 17 percent. 17. U.S. Census Bureau, “Census of Population and Housing,” Summary File 1, 2005, American Community Survey, http://www.census.gov. 18.Carl Abbott, Metropolitan Frontier (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1995). 19. Barber, “Reno’s Silver Legacy,” 205. 20. Thomas Michael Power and Richard Barrett, Post-Cowboy Economics (Washington , DC: Island Press, 2001), xix. 21.Utah Foundation, Utah Water Use and Quality, Research Brief, August, 1,2004, http://www.utahfoundation.org/reports/?page_id=331;see auto ownership rates from 2000 U.S. Census in later figures, http://www.census.gov; American Lung Association , State of the Air, 2009, http://www.stateoftheair.org. 22.John D. Reps, Cities of the American West: A History of Frontier Urban Planning (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1979), ix–xi. 23. Bradford Luckingham, “The American Southwest, an Urban View,” in The American West: The Urban West, ed. Gordon Morris Bakken and Brenda Farrington (New York: Garland, 2000), 261–62. 24. William G. Robbins and James C. Foster, eds., Land in the American West: Private Claims and the Common Good (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000). 25.John Findlay, Magic Lands: Western Cityscapes and American Culture after 1940 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992). 26. Kevin Starr in William G. Robbins, “In Search of Western Lands,” in Land in the American West: Private Claims and the Common Good, ed. William Robbins and James C. Foster (Seattle: University of Washington Press , 2000), 6. 27. Luckingham, “American Southwest,” 263. 28. Gunther Barth, “Demopiety: Speculations on Urban Beauty, Western Scenery, and the Discovery of the American Cityscape,” in The American West: The Urban West (New York: Garland, 2000). 29. Leonard J. Arrington, Great Basin Kingdom: An Economic History of the Latterday Saints 1830-1900 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1958), 24. 30. C. Mark Hamilton, Nineteenth Century Mormon Architecture and City Planning (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995). 31.Frank C. Robertson and Beth Kay Harris, Boom Towns of the Great Basin (Denver: Sage, 1962), 19. 32. Michael P. Conzen, The Making of the American Landscape (London: Routledge , 1991), 1 97. 33. Cecilia Parera, “Mormon Town Planning...

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