Referenced In

Year of the Monkey
by Patti Smith

"On that same day, there was news of wildfires in Southern California, the dense smoke reaching all the way to Nevada."

Prey
by Michael Crichton

"It’s true," Julia said quietly. "We’re manufacturing in Nevada."

Prey
by Michael Crichton

"“Are you looking for Julia?” “Yes, I am.” “She’s in Nevada for the day, at the fab plant. Shall I try to connect you there?”"

Prey
by Michael Crichton

"“No, Jack. He’s been gone all week. He’s out at that fab plant in Nevada.”"

Prey
by Michael Crichton

"…The pilot was flying alongside the power‐line towers… A heavyset man leaned forward from the backseat. “Pilot? Are we there yet?” “We just crossed the Nevada line. Another ten minutes.”"

Devil in a Blue Dress
by Walter Mosley

"He hijacked liquor trucks and cigarette shipments all over California, and Nevada too."

Ask The Dust
by John Fante

"I had come by bus, dusty to the skin, the dust of Wyoming and Utah and Nevada in my hair and in my ears."

Play It As It Lays
by Joan Didion

"Freddy had gotten in touch with one of the big savings-and-loan Democrats, who got in touch with someone in Nevada and the marijuana came off the report."

Play It As It Lays
by Joan Didion

"Nothing at all off about leaving a party with Johnny Waters and ending up in jail in Nevada at eight o’clock the next morning."

Play It As It Lays
by Joan Didion

"The town was on a dry river bed between Death Valley and the Nevada line."

Play It As It Lays
by Joan Didion

"Maria thinks we’re going to get arrested for possession. Maria thinks she’s already done that number in Nevada."

Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner

"Ed took me to Nevada City in the pickup."

Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner

"Many a taste bud in Grass Valley and Nevada City, blunted by sixty years of greasy french fries, ketchup, and bourbon, must remember as mine do the taste of sun-warmed nectarines and Satsuma plums up there in the end of the orchard."

Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner

"Ed saw him over in Nevada City last week, purple pants and all."

The Dharma Bums
by Jack Kerouac

"…the final climb over one thousand feet almost straight up boy to the top of the world where you'll see all California and parts of Nevada and the wind'll blow right through your pants."

The Dharma Bums
by Jack Kerouac

"I looked back and see all of the state of California it would seem stretching out in three directions under huge blue skies with frightening planetary space clouds and immense vistas of distant valleys and even plateaus and for all I knew whole Nevadas out there."

Less Than Zero
by Bret Easton Ellis

"I ate steak and ribs that had been flown down two days earlier from one of the hotels my grandfather owned in Nevada."

Less Than Zero
by Bret Easton Ellis

"He came with Wilson, another of my grandfather’s aides, and he was wearing a red baseball cap, and he carried around clippings of how the weather in Nevada had been for the past two months."

Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner

"My little general practitioner in Nevada City now wonders if I should risk staying through the winter without a proper nurse."