University Of Nevada Press imprint: 244 books

by H. Lee Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016

The Gambler’s Apprentice tells the story of a teenage boy growing up in Texas during desperate times. Willy, wise and capable beyond his years, learns the gambler’s trade and experiences adventures that demand quick wits—and sometimes violent actions. This is a multilayered story, full of Old...

An Enduring Legacy

The Story Of Basques In Idaho

by Mark Bieter, John Bieter
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2003

In this volume, brothers Mark and John Bieter chronicle three generations of Basque presence in Idaho from 1890 to the present, resulting in an engaging story that begins with a few solitary sheepherders and follows their evolution into the prominent ethnic community of today.

Sunland

A Novel

by Don Waters
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013

Sid Dulaney, in his mid-thirties, between jobs and short on funds, has moved back to Tucson to take care of his beloved grandmother. To hold down the cost of her prescriptions, he reluctantly starts smuggling medications over the border. His picaresque misadventures involve the lovable eccentrics...
by Robin Troy
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011

Liberty Lanes is a bowling alley in a small Montana town where a senior bowling league meets three times a week. Nelson Moore, one of the bowlers, has recently become a local hero by saving a teammate from choking on a happy hour chicken bone. Now he must deal with his newfound fame while coping with...

My Mother'S Lovers

(A Novel)

by Joy Passanante
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016

Lake Rose Davis is the only child of former hippies who settled in a small Idaho mill town in the late 1960s. Her parents' eccentric lifestyle makes Lake an outcast among the children of the town, and the unspoken tensions among the adults of her parents' social universe puzzle and disturb her. She...

Basque Firsts

People Who Changed the World

by Vince J. Juaristi
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016

Throughout history, Basque men and women have made contributions in navigation, education, science, fashion, politics, and many other fields. Too often these achievements have been overlooked, or have been claimed as the accomplishments of others. Basque Firsts: People Who Changed the World profiles...
by Richard Moreno
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015

This completely revised and updated edition of A Short History of Reno provides an entertaining and informative account of Reno’s remarkably colorful history. Richard Moreno discusses Reno’s efforts, from its early beginnings in the 1850s to the present day, to reinvent itself as a recreation,...

After The Boom In Tombstone And Jerome, Arizona

Decline In Western Resource Towns

by Eric L. Clements
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014

Focusing on two Arizona towns that had their origins in mining bonanzas—Tombstone and Jerome—historian Eric L. Clements offers a rare study dissecting the process of bust itself—the reasons and manners in which these towns declined as the mining booms ended. Tombstone was the site of one of...

Dummy Up And Deal

Inside The Culture Of Casino Dealing

by H. Lee Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2002

The glitter and excitement that tourists associate with casinos is only a facade. To the gaming industry's front-line employees, its dealers, the casino is a far less glamorous environment, a workplace full of emotional tension, physical and mental demands, humor and pathos. Author H. Lee Barnes,...
by Stephen J. Leonard, Thomas J. Noel
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016

A Short History of Denver covers more than 150 years of Denver’s rich history. The book recounts the takeover of Native American lands, the founding of small towns on the South Platte River at the base of the Rocky Mountains, and the creation of a city, which by 1890 was among the nation’s major...

Imagining Los Angeles

A City In Fiction

by David Fine
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016

The literary image of Los Angeles has evolved since the 1880s from promotional literature that hyped the region as a New Eden to contemporary visions of the city as a perplexing, sometimes corrupt, even apocalyptic place that reflects all that is wrong with America. In Imagining Los Angeles, the...

Carol and John Steinbeck

Portrait of a Marriage

by Susan Shillinglaw
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2013

Carol Henning Steinbeck, writer John Steinbeck’s first wife, was his creative anchor, the inspiration for his great work of the 1930s, culminating in The Grapes of Wrath. Meeting at Lake Tahoe in 1928, their attachment was immediate, their personalities meshing in creative synergy. Carol was unconventional,...
by Lynn Downey
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013

Sonoma is one of Northern California’s most desirable places to live and a popular tourist destination, combining small-town charm, a colorful past, and its current role as the hub of one of the world’s premier wine-producing regions. A Short History of Sonoma traces its past from the Native American...

Coronado National Memorial

A History of Montezuma Canyon and the Southern Huachucas

by Joseph P. Sánchez
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017

Coronado National Memorial explores forgotten pathways through Montezuma Canyon in southeastern Arizona, and provides an essential history of the southern Huachuca Mountains. This is a magical place that shaped the region and two countries, the United States and Mexico. Its history dates back to the...
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