by Nies, Judith
Deseret, Empire of, 107–110
Desert Inn
atomic blast tourism and, 6
construction of, 12
famous guests of, 12–13
innovations/features of, 12, 13
opening of, 9, 13
ownership of, 12, 14, 15–16
sets of books kept for, 16
Desert Land Act of 1877, 66
Desertification, 55, 180, 231, 241–242
Detroit Mob, 12
DeVoto, Bernard (historian), 108
Diamond fields, 64, 65
Didion, Joan (author), 169
Dinnebito Trading Post, 30–33
Dion, Celine (singer), 3
Dominy, Floyd (Bureau of Reclamation head), 176
Dry farming, 65, 82
Dulles, Allen (CIA director), 197
Dust storms, 166
Earthquake, Haitian (2010), 4
Eastman, Galen (Indian agent), 113
Eaton, Fred (mayor), 165
Eccles, David (industrialist), 144–145
Eccles, Marriner (Utah Construction board member), 144–145
Edison, Thomas (inventor), 66, 70
Edwards Air Force Base, 7
Ehrlichman, John (presidential advisor), 222
Eisenhower, Dwight, 20, 25, 196
El Cortez (casino), 10
Electricity
from coal, 47, 66–67, 70, 76–77, 202
as a commodity, 70
Las Vegas and, 5–6, 143, 159
for Sunbelt boom, 47, 51
water pumped by, 70
Elizabeth I (queen of England), 73
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (writer), 69
Engels, Frederick (philosopher), 75
England
history of coal use in, 71–75
values that powered industrial way of life, 75–76
Environmentalism, 3
Equitable Life Insurance, 202
European Parliament, 210, 234
Evans and Associates (public relations firm), 126–127, 203
Executive Order Reservation (1882)
boundaries of, 89, 134
establishment of, 66
mineral leases and, 84, 87
partition of, 126–127, 204
Eye-dazzlers, 30
Fall, Albert (interior secretary), 222
Farming, by Hopi, 65, 82, 113
Firewood, 72–73
Fish and Wildlife Service, US, 187
Flamingo
atomic blast tourism and, 6
Barry Goldwater and, 13
Bugsy Siegel and, 8, 9, 11, 15
financing for, 15
land purchase for, 11
mob connections to, 11
opening of, 11
Flanigan, Peter (economics advisor), 49
Fleming, J. R. (Indian agent), 64–65, 113
Fluor Engineering, 202
Flying-saucer sightings, 197–199
Folsom, Margaret (land owner), 11
Ford, Thomas (governor), 106–107
Fort Sumner, 28, 64, 130–131
Fountains, in Las Vegas, 163
Four Corners Generating Station, 51–52, 196, 203, 206–207
Fox, Steven (writer), 13
Freese, Barbara (historian), 71, 74
Frenchman Flat, 6
Friends in High Places (McCartney), 202
Gallatin, Albert (secretary of the treasury), 102
Gambling
in Atlantic City, 182
blackjack, 237–238, 239–240, 242
legalization in Nevada, 146
licenses, 151, 181–182
tax rate in Nevada, 241
Gambling boat, 153
Gambling school, 17
Garfield, John (US president), 61–62
Gass, Octavius (farmer), 138
Giancana, Sam (mobster), 13, 16
Glen Canyon Dam, 93, 176
Gold mining, 64, 129, 138, 241
Golden Nugget, 52
Goldwater, Barry (senator)
on “Anglo activists,” 32
conservative agenda of, 24–26
at Desert Inn, 12, 13
election to Senate, 18, 20, 23, 24
on flying saucers and aliens, 199
Hopi Land Settlement Act, 126
Hopi-Navajo reservation partition and, 27, 41
John Boyden and, 88–91
lack of imagination/abilities of, 41–42
link to southern senators, 24, 25
mobster friends of, 13–15, 14, 20
name, 9
Native America voting and, 21, 22–23, 30–31
Native American art collection, 18, 19
Navajo relocation and, 206, 224, 227–228
penchant for young Navajo women, 38
Peter MacDonald and, 226–229
pre-political years of, 18–19
presidential election (1964), 30, 200
visit to Big Mountain (1978), 38–40, 224–225
Goldwater, Bob (businessman), 12, 15
Goldwater, Morris (mayor of Prescott), 19
Goldwater & Sons department store, 12, 18
Golf courses, 163, 164, 178
Goodman, Oscar (mayor), 238
Gottlieb, Bob (author), 207–208
Grand Canyon, smog in, 56–57
Grass Creek, 86
A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest (DeBuys), 180
Great Basin Pumping Scheme, 239, 240
Great Depression, 148–150, 153, 155–156
Great Serpent mound, 103
Green, Michael (historian), 182
Green, Rayna (writer), 121
Greenbaum, Gus (mobster), 10–11, 13–14, 15, 20–21
Greenwood, Morgan (president of Williams Technologies), 49
Grey, Zane (author), 156
Groom Lake, Nevada, 194, 199
Gwyther, George (doctor), 132
Haiti, earthquake (2010), 4
Halleck, Henry (general), 129
Hallett, D. J. (Bechtel controller), 208
Halliburton, 200
Hamblin, Jacob (Mormon leader), 111–113
Hamilton, Arlene (activist), 233
Hanson, James (industrialist), 229–233
Harjo, Suzanne (foundation director), 228
Harrah’s, 52
Harriman, E. H. (railroad owner), 142, 169
Havana, gambling in, 9–10
Havana Mob, 10
Havasu reservoir, 179
Hayden, Carl (senator), 91, 171
Healing v. Jones, 126–127, 133–134, 213, 224
Hearst family, 64
Hemenway Marina, 168, 173
Henry the Eighth (king of England), 72
Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, 143
Heye Foundation, 167
Hinkins, Lowell (operations manager), 50, 53–56
Hochschild, Adam (author), 62
Homeless population, of Las Vegas, 241
Homestead Act of 1863, 66, 108–110
Hoover, Herbert (US president), 169, 171
Hoover, J. Edgar (FBI director), 12–13
Hoover Dam. See also Lake Mead
Boulder Dam Project Act, 171
California as beneficiary of, 158–159
construction of, 149–150, 153–158, 209
hydroelectric plant, 145, 159
investors in, 143–148
labor issues, 154–157
repair projects, 159
silt buildup, 79, 176–177
Hopi
Atawovi, 35
boarding school, 120–124
coal contracts, 206
conflict with Navajo, 126–128, 133, 203–204
farming, 65, 82, 113
“friendlies,” 124–125
independence of villages, 79–80
land claim case, 80–84, 125
mineral leases, 84
Mormons and, 64–65, 111–114
payments for water use, 53
polic
e, 32, 33
reservation boundary issue, 27–29, 39, 82, 87–91, 117, 224
reservation establishment, 65, 87
tribal council, 33, 80–82, 84, 90–91, 118–120
voting by, 21
water supply, 36, 53–55, 79
Hopi Cultural Center, 35
Hopi Foundation, 35
Hopi Land Settlement Act (1974), 204, 215, 227
Hopi Negotiating Committee, 118
Hotevilla (Hopi village), 111, 124
Hubbell, Lorenzo (Indian trader), 22, 30
Hughes, Howard (aviator, Hollywood producer, casino owner), 14
Hughes Tool Company
Howard Hughes Corporation (Summerlin)
Hydroelectric plant, Hoover Dam, 145, 159
ibn Saud (king of Saudi Arabia), 193
Ice Age, 73
Ickes, Harold (secretary of interior), 115, 118, 155, 157–158, 192
Illinois Basin, 76
Imperial Valley, California, 168–169, 171
Independent Diné Nation, 209–210, 215, 223
Indian Health Service, 196
Indian Land Cessions in the United States (document), 133
Indian Land Claims Commission, 78, 81, 83, 88
Indian Relocation Commission, 39
Indian Removal Act, 97
Indian Reorganization Act (1934), 32–33
Indian reservations. See Reservations
Indian Ring, 22
Indian Self-Determination and Education Act, 222
Indian Territory, 63, 97, 132, 147
Indian traders, 21–22
Indians. See Native Americans
Industrial Revolution, 69, 71
International Bechtel, 193
Izenour, Steven (architect/author), 243
Jack, Alvin, 55
Jackson, Andrew, 96–97
Jefferson, Thomas, 102
Johns, Wahleah (director, Black Mesa Water Coalition), 54
Johnson, Caleb (Hopi), 81, 91
Johnson, Lyndon B., 23, 25, 117, 200
Jokela, Arthur (professor), 34–35
Josephy, Alvin (author/photographer), 115
Juice, 8
Kaiparowitz project, 52
Kaiser, Henry (industrialist), 146, 148, 156–157, 191
Katchongva, Dan (Hopi), 81, 91
Keams, Thomas (Indian trader), 65, 134
Keams Canyon boarding school, 120–124, 221, 223
Kearns, Thomas (senator), 140
Kefauver, Estes (senator), 15, 17, 18
Kelce, Merl (coal company executive), 77–78
Kelland, Clarence Budington, 24
Kennecott Copper, 86, 89, 92, 125–126, 202
Kennedy, John F., 115, 117–118, 197
Kennedy, Joseph, Sr. (businessman), 197
Kennedy, Robert, 13
Kennedy, Ted, 26
Kerry, John, 179
Kimball, Heber (Mormon leader), 99
Kimball, Spencer (church president), 117
King Leopold’s Ghost (Hochschild), 62
Kirkorian, Kirk (casino owner), 190
Kleindienst, Richard (attorney general), 26
Knudsen, Morris (engineer), 144–145
Korean War, 207
LADWP (Los Angeles Department of Water and Power), 57, 165–166
LaFarge, Oliver (author), 80
Lake Como, 5, 163
Lake Mead
boating on, 173–175
Las Vegas allocation from, 164
naming of, 158
Overton and, 166–168
silt buildup, 167, 176–177
water level of, 5, 7, 167–168, 171–175, 187–188, 238–239
water treatment plant, 183
Lake Tahoe, 13
Lamanites, 104, 112
Land grabs, 61–67
Belgium Congo, 62–63
of Native American lands, 63–66
Lansky, Meyer (gangster)
associates of, 11
in Cuba, 9–10, 16
gambling school of, 17
J. Edgar Hoover and, 13
on luck and gambling, 243
power/influence of, 13–14
Las Vegas
establishment of, 137
export of homeless population, 241
founding myth of, 45
geology of, 139
history, 141–143
Mormon settlers, 108
origin of name, 138, 139
per capita water use, 164, 183
political atmosphere of, 238
population growth of, 41, 47–48, 183
public image of, 4, 47, 182
water supply, 6–7, 139, 164, 183–188
Las Vegas Land and Water Company, 139
Las Vegas Motor Speedway, 167
Las Vegas Sun (Green), 182
Las Vegas Water Authority, 184–185
Laughlin, Don (gambling entrepreneur), 45–47, 51
Laughlin, Nevada, 45–59
accident (1985) at power plant, 55
casinos, 52
founding of, 47–49
Mohave Generating Station, 40, 42, 47, 50–52, 55–58, 119–120, 203, 207
Laughlin Flamingo Hilton, 52
Law, William (businessman), 106
Lawyers, cowboy, 59
Le Page du Pratz, Antoine, 103
Learning from Las Vegas (Venturi, Brown, and Izenour), 243
Legal Aid office, Tuba City, 216
Lehman Brothers, 233
Leopold (king of Belgium), 62–63
Lessman, Jac (casino architect), 9
Leukemia, 201
Lights, of Las Vegas, 5–6, 189–190
Little Colorado River, 64, 65, 82
Livestock reduction, 32, 33, 36, 39, 79, 226
London, air quality in, 73, 75
Long Walk (1864), 28, 64, 130–131
Longest Walk (1978), 28
Los Angeles, water supply for, 164–166, 169, 171, 184
Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP), 57, 165–166
Lost tribe of Israel, 101–102
Low-intensity conflict, 33
Lowell, Massachusetts, 75
Lower Basin, 170
Luciano, Charles “Lucky” (gangster), 11
MacDonald, Alan (builder), 146
MacDonald, Peter (Navajo tribal chairman), 31, 33, 79, 204–206, 215, 225–229
Manchester, England, 74–75
Manhattan Project, 192
Mankiller, Wilma (Cherokee principal chief), 221
Marx, Karl, 75
Masayevsa, Marilyn (Hopi resident), 54
Masayevsa, Vernon (Blalck Mesa Trust), 54
McCain, John, 30, 206, 228
McCarthy, Joe, 23, 25
McCartney, Laton (author), 202
McCone, John (Bechtel partner), 191–197
McFarland, Ernest (senator), 18–20, 23
McGovern, George (senator), 227
McKibben, Bill (environmentalist), 216
McPhee, John, 176, 197–198
Me and Mine: The Life Story of Helen Sekaquaptewa (Sekaquaptewa and Udall), 113–114
Mead, Elmore (Bureau of Reclamation head), 158, 168–169
The Meadows, 151–153
Merrit, E. S., 123
Mexican-American War, 108, 128
MGM Grand Hotel casino, 181–182, 190
MGM Mirage, 185
Midler, Bette (singer/actress), 3–4
Military construction projects, 159–160, 192–194, 200, 207
Mineral leases, 84, 87–91, 119, 125, 208–209, 225–226
Minerals on Native American lands, 65–66
Mining industry, tax rate on, 240–241
Mining settlements
gambling and prostitution in, 150
Navajo raids on, 129
Mohave Desert, 4, 167
Mohave Generating Station
accident (1985) at power plant, 55
closure of, 58
construction of, 50–52,
203, 207
electricity generating capacity of, 40, 50
Laughlin founding and, 42, 47
opening of, 55, 119–120
pollution from, 56–58
The Money and the Power (Denton and Morris), 16
Money laundering, 16
Moore, Roger (actor), 230
Morgan, J. P. (financier), 66
Mormon Fort, 141, 160
Mormon Relief Society, 114
Mormons. See also specific individuals
apostate, 97, 106, 107
Book of Mormon, 96, 100–102, 104–105, 112
Coalville, Utah, 85–86
conversion of Indians, 21–22, 64
on Indian lands, 64–65, 66
Jack Mormons, 95, 116
land seizure in Missouri, 95–96, 98
male generational succession to political power, 117
missionaries, 111–113
as Nephite descendants, 104
networks in Washington, 89
polygamy, 93, 94, 97–98, 106–107, 109–110
property ownership, 97, 100, 107
reform, 98, 107
settlement of the Meadows (las vegas), 140
in St. George, Nevada, 186
United Order, 97, 107
westward movement of, 95–96, 98–100, 107
Moroni (angel), 105
Morris, Roger (author), 16
Morrison, Harry (engineer), 144–145
Morton, Brian (scholar), 114
Mounds, Indian archaeological, 101–104
Mount Wheeler, 184–185
Mountain Meadow massacre, 107
Mulholland, William (engineer), 165
Mulroy, Pat (water authority manager), 164, 185–188, 240, 241
Natchez Indians, 103
National Nuclear Waste Repository, 201
National Sacrifice Area, 58
National Security Act (1947), 194
Native American Rights Fund, 83, 119
Native Americans. See also specific Native American groups
activism, 220–222, 231–233
Alcatraz occupation, 28, 220–222
boarding school, 22, 120–124, 222–223
competency commissions, 221
“energy tribes,” 83, 226
Five Civilized Tribes, 96–97
Indian Reorganization Act (1934), 32–33
Indian traders, 21–22
Lamanites as predecessors of, 104
land grabs, 63–66
Longest Walk demonstration, 28
mounds, 101–104
Navajo-Hopi reservation boundary issue, 27–29, 82, 87–91, 125, 224
pre-European population in North America, 101
as servant class in Arizona, 22, 123
termination policy for tribes, 88–89, 222
tribal government, 33
voting by, 21, 22–23, 30–31
Wounded Knee Massacre, 121
Nauvoo Expositor (newspaper), 106
Navajo
average income on reservation, 54
code talker, 226
conflict with Hopi, 126–128, 133, 203–204
Goldwater’s insult to, 31
Goldwater’s knowledge of, 23
imprisonment of, 64, 130–133
