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[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’s end, it was the country’s fastest-growing city, a world-class travel destination with a lucrative tourist industry hosting millions of visitors a year.... 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
Since Las Vegas was founded on May 15, 1905, when the Union Pacific auctioned off land around its new railroad shops, the city has grown from a ramshackle village to a sprawling metropolitan area of well over a million people.... 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

[Hardcover] - $21.00
A Lean Year and Other Stories
by Robert Laxalt
Created by Laxalt early in his writing career, these sixteen stories evoke a Nevada in the 1950s poised on the brink of change.... more

[Hardcover] - $24.95
The Legacy of Language
A Tribute to Charlton Laird
Edited by Phillip C. Boardman
In this tribute to Charlton Laird, ten scholars in the fields of language and linguistics provide ordinary readers with new insight into the workings of the English language.... more