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[Hardcover] - $25.00
Kinsella's Man
by Richard Stookey
In this novel of the West, centered in east-central Nevada, John Siloa, a young Basque sheepherder, comes west to work on Cyril Kinsella's ranch and eventually becomes the old man's confidant and agent.... more

[Hardcover] - $44.95
Korrika
Basque Ritual for Ethnic Identity
by Teresa del Valle
Korrika is technically a colossal footrace run in relays of 1 kilometer. This scholarly work looks at the emergence of this race as a modern ritual for expressing Basque identity.... more

[Hardcover] - $21.00
The Land of My Fathers
A Son Returns to the Basque Country
by Robert Laxalt
In 1960, renowned Nevada writer Robert Laxalt moved himself and his family to a small Basque village in the French Pyrenees.... more

[Hardcover] - $34.95
Landing in Las Vegas
Commercial Aviation and the Making of a Tourist City
by Daniel K. Bubb
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Las Vegas was a dusty, isolated desert town. By century’... more

[Paperback] - $16.95
Las Vegas
The Great American Playground, Expanded Edition
by Robert D. McCracken
This expanded edition is the perfect book for the southern Nevada-bound traveler or the armchair adventurer.... more

[Hardcover] - $44.95,
[Paperback] - $21.95
Las Vegas
A Centennial History
by Eugene P. Moehring, Michael S. Green
The meteoric rise of Las Vegas from a remote Mormon outpost to an international entertainment center was never a sure thing.... more

[Paperback] - $29.95
Last Bonanza Kings
The Bourns of San Francisco
by Ferol Egan
This major new biography of one of San Francisco's most influential families makes use of the extensive Bourn family papers from the Bancroft Library to tell the rich history of the Bourn family and its influence on the development of San Francisco and California's Gold Country.... more

[Hardcover] - $29.95
The Last Resort
Success and Failure in Campaigns for Casinos
by John Dombrink, William N. Thompson
This thoughtful book examines the ten major campaigns to legalize casino gambling in America that were waged between 1976 and 1986 and proposes an explanation for why legalization of casino gaming lags behind legalization of other forms of gambling.... more