ABSTRACT
Reno, "The Biggest Little City in the World", has constituted itself the Great American Divide. In all fairness to Reno's hospitality, it must be insisted that divorce, gambling, drinking and sex do not provide a complete summary of its services to the visitor. Reno is perhaps the unhippest and zippiest town in all the fifty states. The specialized Reno cowboy is a local representative of one of the most curious professions in contemporary America. Reno and environs display a distinct physical charm and diversity of terrain. Besides the gambling/divorcing Reno, there is also the typical Western town in which people live much as they do in a thousand similar places, blessed by lovely homes and mortgages, spacious lawns and chickweed, happy youngsters thronging to school, church, and dragstrip. Reno visitors are idealists- and practical; people of action- and people who wait. They have come to Reno after much deep thought, quiet analysis, and broken crockery.
