Dan Dagget believes that humanity can have a positive effect on the land. He demonstrates case after case of positive human engagement in the environment and of managed ecosystems and restored a
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 search for wealth took
Mathieu Etchiberri wants nothing more than to leave his family’s Arizona sheep ranch and go to college, but his father insists that he take over the ranch instead. Then his father is killed in an acci
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 this unique language o
In No Place Like Home, Linda Hasselstrom ponders the changing nature of community in the modern West, where old family ranches are being turned into subdivisions and historic towns are evolving into m
Las Vegas is considered a modern icon of excess. It offers every imaginable extreme of greed, pleasure, and despair, all supported by technology that enhances fantasy and allows residents and visitors
Without the heat (or cold), smells, flies this is a nostalgic tour through old (historic) Nevada. Solid if brief history and lots of period photos. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Following a guidebook format, historian Shawn Hall divides Elko County into five regions, then lists the historic sights within each region and provides directions to reach them. He offers a local hi
A world of women living on life's edges on the West Coast, grasping at hope, permanence, and meaning in spite of their chronic dissociation and ennui, finds powerful realization in a collection of sho
An expanded edition of a work originally published in 1990 by Capra Press. It contains 19 essays (six of them new to this collection) on the landscape, literature, and life in the agricultural heartla
Clark's 1949 work (endorsed by BCL3 ) now reprinted by the University of Nevada Press without critical or interpretive comment. At least it is modernized by acid-free paper. Annotation copyright Book
Phyllis Barber grew up in Las Vegas, in the midst of a devout Mormon family. As a small child, she began to feel uneasy with her faith's all-pervasive certainty and righteousness. As she grew, the ten
