Set primarily in the lonesome southwest desert lands of the 1920s, this novella is a powerful story in which landscape reflects and defines character....
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Jeronimo is seventy-seven and Emily eighty-two when they meet. It is not despite their age but because of it that theirs is a story of passion, and finally of grace....
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Carol Henning Steinbeck, writer John Steinbeck’s first wife, was his creative anchor, the inspiration for his great work of the 1930s, culminating in The Grapes of Wrath....
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Cattle in the Cold Desert brilliantly combines a lively account of the development of the Great Basin grazing industry with a detailed scientific discussion of the ecology of its sagebrush/grassland plant communities....
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On August 27, 2007, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an
earlier district court ruling that sport climbing on a Washoe Indian sacred site in western Nevada must cease....
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