First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Hal Rothmanis a professor of history at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and the editor of the journal Environmental History.The author of Devil's Bargains:Tourism in the Twentieth Century American West,Rothman is a frequent commentator on Las Vegas. He has been featured on National Public Radio, CBS Sunday Morning,and in The New York Times,The Wall Street Journaland in the four-hour A&E Television Network documentary, LasVegas.