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      The Land of My Fathers

      Robert Laxalt

      Offers a moving record of a people and their homeland. Through Robert Laxalt's perceptive eyes and his wife Joyce's photographs, we observe the Basques' market days and festivals, join their…

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      Nevada: A Bicentennial History

      Robert Laxalt

      Sagebrush and neon, shepherds and gangsters, a crossroads and a refuge, Nevada is a state that didn’t deserve to be.

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      Nevada-A History New Ed

      Robert Laxalt

      An evocative portrait of the state that didn’t deserve to be but became one anyway. First published in 1977, this edition includes a new preface that reexamines Laxalt’s predictions for…

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      The Basque Hotel

      Robert Laxalt

      The first volume in Laxalt’s Basque family trilogy, is the coming of age story of a boy named Pete. Too prone to dreams, Pete undergoes his rites of passage -…

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      A Lean Year and Other Stories

      Robert Laxalt

      In this collection of sixteen short stories, Robert Laxalt illuminates the Nevada of the 1950s. Written when Laxalt was in his twenties, the stories are as fresh as if they…

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      Time of the Rabies

      Robert Laxalt

      Set on a Nevada sheep ranch during the 1920s rabies epidemic, this novella follows the owner and his family and ranch hands as the epidemic pulls humans and animals into…

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      Travels with My Royal: A Memoir of the Writing Life

      Robert Laxalt

      A memoir by Nevada writer Robert Laxalt exploring his life as a writer. It includes vignettes about his youth in Carson City, tales of his early days as a reporter…

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      Dust Devils

      Robert Laxalt

      A story set in the violent and conflict-ridden days of the early 20th century.

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      Child of the Holy Ghost

      Robert Laxalt

      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 US. Pete finds…

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      The Governor’s Mansion

      Robert Laxalt

      In the dramatic third volume of Robert Laxalt’s trilogy, Leon - the eldest son of immigrant parents - becomes the governor of Nevada during the 1960s. An able lawyer in…

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      A Private War: American Code in the Belgian Congo

      Robert Laxalt

      This memoir recalls Robert Laxalt’s services in a remote jungle outpost, in the Belgian Congo. The Allies and the Germans were struggling to control a mine, it lay deep in…

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      A Man in the Wheatfield

      Robert Laxalt

      Father Savio Lazzaroni is obsessed with a vision of evil. Mayor Manuel Cafferata is only concerned with his own standing in a tiny village peopled with Italian immigrants. Into their…

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      Sweet Promised Land

      Robert Laxalt

      Dominique was sixteen when he left the French Pyrenees for America. He became a sheepherder in the Nevada desert. Like all his fellow Basque immigrants, he dreamed of someday returning…

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      In a Hundred Graves: A Basque Portrait

      Robert Laxalt

      The Basques of Europe are legendary for the curtain of privacy they have always drawn around their world, shielding it from visitors from the outside. As a result, accounts of…

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      A Cup of Tea in Pamplona: A Novella

      Robert Laxalt

      A tale of smuggling in a small Basque community and the consquences of choosing it as a profession.

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      Robert Laxalt: The Voice of the Basques in North American Literature

      David Rio Raigadas

      Presents a study of the life and work of Basque American author Robert Laxalt. This book analyzes the representation of the Basques throughout Laxalt’s varied literary production, with special attention…

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      The Violent Land: Tales the Old Timers Tell

      Robert Laxalt

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      The Violent Land: Tales the Old Timers Tell

      Robert Laxalt

      ""The Violent Land: Tales The Old Timers Tell"" is a collection of stories by Robert Laxalt that depict the harsh realities of life in the American West during the late…

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