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A Son Returns to the Basque Country
In 1960, renowned Nevada writer Robert Laxalt moved himself and his family to a small Basque village in the French Pyrenees.... more

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Commercial Aviation and the Making of a Tourist City
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Las Vegas was a dusty, isolated desert town. By century’... more

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The Great American Playground, Expanded Edition
This expanded edition is the perfect book for the southern Nevada-bound traveler or the armchair adventurer.... more

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A Centennial History
The meteoric rise of Las Vegas from a remote Mormon outpost to an international entertainment center was never a sure thing.... more

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The Bourns of San Francisco
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

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Success and Failure in Campaigns for Casinos
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

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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.... more

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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 were penned yesterday.... more