Foreword by Jeff Kelley.
Nevada's open spaces have long inspired complex responses from a population largely shaped by European sensibilities toward land and its uses....
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In 1968 over 10,000 Chicana/o high school students in East Los Angeles walked out of their schools in the first major protest against racism and educational inequality staged by Mexican Americans in the United States....
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The surprising truth about intermarriage in 19th-Century California.
Until recently, most studies of the colonial period of the American West have focused on the activities and agency of men....
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The American conquest of California is the subject of Lawrence Coates’ remarkable new novel, a tale rich in magical irony, fraught with caustic truths and wrenching insights into the human condition....
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This erotic urban mystery is set in Salt Lake City, Utah. Grace Stern, a botanist, is married to but separated from Pascal, a heart surgeon and soon-to-be murder victim....
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