University of Nevada Press

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Riding the Long Circle on a Nevada Family Ranch

Photographs by Linda Dufurrena,
Text by Carolyn Dufurrena

For more than a decade, photographer Linda Dufurrena has recorded with powerful eloquence the rugged, beautiful landscape of northern Nevada and the patterns of life on the Dufurrena family ranch in the Quinn River Valley.... more

[Hardcover] - $21.95

Finding Higher Ground

A Life of Travels

by Catharine Savage Brosman

Essayist Catharine Savage Brosman explores the relationship of human beings to their environment, traveling from American deserts to dense European urban settings.... more

[Paperback] - $15.00

First Horses

Stories of the New West

by Robert Franklin Gish

Foreword by Gordon Weaver. This fourteen stories in this collection are set in the sometimes magical, sometimes brutal Southwest: a multi-ethnic, contemporary West that encourages the reader to see beyond the stereotypes of the Old West.... more

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Fishing for Ghosts

Twelve Short Stories

by Richard E. Brown

Warm, gentle, funny, sometimes sad, these twelve stories weave common themes into a variety of patterns, each distinctive and yet related to the rest.... more

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Flight and Other Stories

by José Skinner

In this rich group of stories about Latinos in the American Southwest, the author explores many themes.... more

[Paperback] - $19.95

The Flock

by Mary Austin

This classic novel, first published in 1906 and based on Mary Austin's own experiences, captures the way of life of shepherds in the Sierra.... more

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Flying Over Sonny Liston

Poems

by Gary Short

Winner of the 1996 Western States Book Award for poetry, Flying Over Sonny Liston explores with courage, compassion, and bone-deep wisdom the complicated and sometimes heartbreaking task of being human in the modern world, in the modern West.... more

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Forty Years in the Wilderness

Impressions of Nevada, 1940-1980

by James W. Hulse

This interpretive history of Nevada is partly a social and political statement that draws on technical, historical, and political documents.... more