University of Nevada Press

BROWSE - SUBJECTS - Nevada & the West

49 - 56 of 172 books

[Paperback] - $19.95

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

[Paperback] - $14.00

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

[Paperback] - $13.95

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

[Paperback] - $34.95

Frémont

Explorer for a Restless Nation

by Ferol Egan

John Charles Frémont was one of the great heroes of America’s age of Manifest Destiny. The expeditions he led through its largely uncharted western territories introduced the nation to the diversity and potential of its vast trans-Mississippi holdings.... more

[Paperback] - $21.95

Friendly Fallout 1953

by Ann Ronald

Friendly Fallout 1953 is a hybrid work of literature that combines the actual history of aboveground atomic testing in the Nevada desert in 1953 with fictional vignettes that explore the impact of the tests on the people who participated in them and on civilian “... more

[Paperback] - $24.95

Gardeners of Eden

Rediscovering Our Importance to Nature

by Dan Dagget

Photography by Tom Bean Dagget’s ideas fly in the face of our culture’s assumption that humans are separate from nature and of current notions that the best way for us to protect the land is to leave it alone.... more

[Hardcover] - $34.95

George Wingfield

Owner and Operator of Nevada

by C. Elizabeth Raymond

Banker, hotel owner, and political powerhouse George Wingfield was a significant figure in Nevada history.... more

[Hardcover] - $31.95

The Glory Days in Goldfield, Nevada

by Sally Zanjani

Goldfield, Nevada, was one of the West’s last mining boomtowns, centered on a fabulously rich gold deposit discovered in 1902 and exhausted by 1920.... more