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The Basque Language
Since its first publication in 1994, Alan R. King's introduction to the Basque language has become the standard textbook for classroom language students and individuals learning …
Reimagining Environmental History
Christian Knoeller presents a radical reinterpretation of environmental history set in the heartland of America. In an excellent model of narrative-based scholarship, this book …
Nevada Place Names
Author and researcher Helen Carlson spent almost fourteen years searching for the origins of Nevada’s place names, using the maps of explorers, miners, government surveyors, and …
Basque Language
Since its first publication in 1994, Alan R. King's introduction to the Basque language has become the standard textbook for classroom language students and individuals learning …
The Watchful Gods and Other Stories
In 1950, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, author of the acclaimed novel The Ox-Bow Incident - a writer who critic John R. Milton has said ""did perhaps more than anyone else to define (in …
Cahuilla Nation Activism and the Tribal Casino Movement
In 1980, when the Cabazon Band first opened a small poker club on their Indian reservation in the isolated desert of California, they knew local authorities would challenge them. …
Child of the Holy Ghost
The second installment in Laxalt's Basque-family trilogy, this novel takes an adult-aged Pete to the Basque Country to uncover his parents' secret reasons for immigrating to the …
Saving Grand Canyon
2020 Winner of the Southwest Book Awards2020 Spur Awards Finalist Contemporary Nonfiction, Western Writers of America The Grand Canyon has been saved from dams three times in the …
Memorials Matter
From the sculptured peaks of Mount Rushmore to the Coloradan prairie lands at Sand Creek to the idyllic islands of the Pacific, the West's signature environments add a new …
Travels with My Royal
Nevada's preeminent living writer reveals the ideas and creative process behind his published work. Renowned Nevada writer Robert Laxalt has embraced a wide range of subjects in …
The Gold Rush Letters of E. Allen Grosh and Hosea B. Grosh
When brothers Ethan and Hosea Grosh left Pennsylvania in 1849, they joined throngs of men from all over the world intent on finding a fortune in the California Gold Rush. Their …
Unfit For Marriage
The Catholic Church of early modern Europe intended the sacrament of matrimony to represent a lifelong commitment, and it allowed few grounds for the dissolution of an unhappy …