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[Hardcover] - $24.95
Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Critiques
Edited by Charlton Laird
Beginning in 1849, Alfred Doten recorded his life in minute detail for more than 54 years. His revealing daily accounts of the West's lusty mining frontier included tales of lynching, vigilante justice, shootings in the street, grand opera and theatre, stock manipulations, seances, musical soirees, and general "... more

[Hardcover] - $39.95
War, Judgment, and Memory in the Basque Borderlands, 1914-1945
by Sandra Ott
War and occupation anywhere test the resilience of local values and institutions and often undermine accepted standards of human conduct.... more

[Hardcover] - $21.95
Watch Your Language!
Mother Tongue and Her Wayward Children
by Robert Gorrell
In this lively, playful celebration of the joys and power of language, Gorrell points to all the signs that show English to be alive and well, and, like any other living thing, constantly evolving.... more

[Paperback] - $19.00
The Watchful Gods and Other Stories
by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Critic John R. Milton once said that Walter Van Tilburg Clark "did perhaps more than anyone else to define (in his fiction) the mode of perception, the acquisition of knowledge, and the style which we tend to call Western.... more

[Paperback] - $21.95
Water Politics in Northern Nevada
A Century of Struggle
by Leah J. Wilds
Nevada’s Newlands Project, completed in 1915, was the first federally subsidized water reclamation scheme in the U.... more

[Paperback] - $19.95
Weavers of Tradition and Beauty
Basketmakers of the Great Basin
Text by Mary Lee Fulkerson,
Photographs by Kathleen Curtis
Weavers of Tradition and Beauty presents new information on contemporary Native American basketry of the Great Basin, largely from the viewpoint of the weavers themselves.... more

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Western Places, American Myths
How We Think About the West
Edited by Gary J. Hausladen
The concept of the American West is an essential part of our national psyche. Identifying the West, however, is a difficult matter.... more

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What's in a Word?
Etymological Gossip About Some Interesting English Words
by Robert Gorrell
Modern English is rich in words derived from sources as diverse as classical Latin and Greek, Indonesian and other Asian languages, European mythology and religion, and the popular culture of many times and places.... more