James, Ronald M. 1955- (Ronald Michael James)

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James, Ronald M. 1955- (Ronald Michael James)

PERSONAL:

Born 1955.

ADDRESSES:

Office—Nevada State Historic Preservation Office, 100 N. Stewart St., Carson City, NV 89701-4285.

CAREER:

Nevada State Historic Preservation Office, Carson City, state historic preservation officer.

WRITINGS:

Temples of Justice: County Courthouses of Nevada, University of Nevada Press (Reno, NV), 1994.

The Roar and the Silence: A History of Virginia City and the Comstock Lode, University of Nevada Press (Reno, NV), 1998.

(Editor, with C. Elizabeth Raymond) Comstock Women: The Making of a Mining Community, University of Nevada Press (Reno, NV), 1998.

(With Susan A. James) Castle in the Sky: George Whittell, Jr. and the Thunderbird Lodge, Thunderbird Lodge Preservation Society (Lake Tahoe, NV), 2002, 2nd edition, 2005.

(Editor, with John B. Reid) Uncovering Nevada's Past: A Primary Source History of the Silver State, University of Nevada Press (Reno, NV), 2004.

Shorter works include "A Guidebook to Nevada's Historical Markers," 5th edition, Nevada State Historic Preservation Office (Carson City, NV), 2005.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

AB Bookman's Weekly, October 5, 1998, review of Comstock Women: The Making of a Mining Community, p. 608, September 27, 1999, review of The Roar and the Silence: A History of Virginia City and the Comstock Lode, p. 436.

Booklist, February 15, 1998, Fred Egloff, review of Comstock Women, p. 974.

Historical Archaeology, spring, 2000, Leah K. Evans-Janke, review of Comstock Women, p. 129.

Journal of American History, September, 2000, Susan Lee Johnson, review of The Roar and the Silence, p. 702.

Journal of the West, October, 1999, Dona G. Gearhart, review of Comstock Women, p. 106.

Pacific Historical Review, February, 2001, Eugene P. Moehring, review of The Roar and the Silence, p. 119.

Roundup, November, 1994, review of Temples of Justice: County Courthouses of Nevada, p. 26,

Western Historical Quarterly, summer, 1995, review of Temples of Justice, p. 263; summer, 1999, Mary Murphy, review of Comstock Women, p. 222; autumn, 1999, Robert L. Spude, review of The Roar and the Silence, p. 385.

Western Legal History, winter-spring, 1996, Leon C. Stutz, review of Temples of Justice, pp. 101-103.

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