Through a turbulent history, Nevada has searched for an identity to call its own. How well it has...

Robert Laxalt's first novel, A Man in the Wheatfield, was published to critical acclaim when it w...

Acclaimed writer Robert Laxalt's spare, precise, and lyrical prose perfectly captures the tension...

The rugged mountains and deserts of eastern California and northern Nevada in the early years of ...

Dominique was sixteen when he left the French Pyrenees for America. He became a sheepherder in th...

The dramatic third volume in Robert Laxalt's trilogy

A novella of frontier smugglers in Basque homelands

In this collection of sixteen short stories, Robert Laxalt evokes the Nevada of the 1950s with il...

When World War II began, Nevada writer Robert Laxalt was an undergraduate in college. Laxalt was ...

The Basques of Europe are legendary for the curtain of privacy they have always drawn around thei...

In a gently sentimental style, Robert Laxalt's narrative history offers readers a highly personal...

The time is the 1930s and the setting is a western frontier town of a few thousand people, with o...

In this candid, beautifully written memoir, Robert Laxalt explores for the first time his life as...

The Basque Hotel : nacido en América

In 1960, renowned Nevada writer Robert Laxalt moved himself and his family to a small Basque vill...

The second installment in Robert Laxalt's Basque family trilogy