Paher, Stanley W.
Description
Stanley W. Paher is a Nevada historian, author, and publisher. He was born in 1940 in Las Vegas. He was raised in Las Vegas and attended Las Vegas High School in 1954. Throughout his young adulthood, he was interested in mining camps and ghost towns and would visit the ones in the surrounding area. After graduation from high school, he joined the Navy and spent two years in the reserves.
After his service was completed, Stanley Paher attended college on the east coast. Once he graduated with his bachelor’s, he took off to Europe for 5 months. He returned to Nevada to attend graduate school at University of Nevada, Reno and graduated in 1969. Soon after, he published his first book “Nevada Ghost Towns and Mining Camps.”
He’s written over 15 books about Nevada’s history from 1970 to 2014.
Sources:
Paher, Stanley. Interview, 1970 March 4. OH-01424. Audio. Oral History Research Center, Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.
Brent Boynton, “A conversation…Nevada Historian Stanley Paher,” PBS video, 26:52, May 21, 2015, https://www.pbs.org/video/-conversation-evada-historian-stanley-paher/
