University of Nevada Press

BROWSE - SUBJECTS - Biography/Memoir

Back to subjects


  1 - 8 of 39 books


[Paperback] - $21.95
A Basque-American Memoir
Nevada sheep rancher Joe Juaristi spoke for years about making a trip back to the Spanish Basque Country that he left sixty years earlier, but each time the subject came up the discussion evolved into a family debate about the scope and members of the journey.... more

[Hardcover] - $34.95
From Nevada to Congress, and Back Again
"I realized early on that you had to be true to your convictions, even if it meant you might not win the next election.... more

[Hardcover] - $34.95,
[Paperback] - $24.95
Letters from a Marriage
Edited and with commentary by Candace C Kant
Popular western writer Zane Grey was a literary celebrity during his lifetime and the center of a huge enterprise based on his writing, which included books, magazine serials, film and stage versions of his stories, even comic strips.... more

[Paperback] - $24.95
Essays on Wallace Stegner
Wallace Stegner is one of the finest American writers, teachers, and environmentalists of the twentieth century.... more

[Hardcover] - $29.95
Memoirs and Scripts
"The films of Pare Lorentz are acknowledged masterpieces of world cinema. They are groundbreaking documentary records of our country in the hard years of the Depression.... more

[Paperback] - $34.95
Explorer for a Restless Nation
John Charles Frémont was one of the great heroes of America’s age of Manifest Destiny. The expeditions he led through its largely uncharted western territories introduced the nation to the diversity and potential of its vast trans-Mississippi holdings.... more

[Paperback] - $18.95
A Railroad Memoir
The late Frank Wendell Call is very much alive in these pages as he relates the fascinating tale of the rich, adventuresome existence he lived as a child in the Nevada desert along the Southern Pacific railroad line.... more

[Hardcover] - $34.95
Owner and Operator of Nevada
Banker, hotel owner, and political powerhouse George Wingfield was a significant figure in Nevada history.... more