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The role of Native American teachers and administrators working in reservation schools has received little attention from scholars.... more

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Cartoonists Confront the Nuclear World
At the dawn of the Atomic Age, the wonders and dangers of this strange new energy were explained by scientists, politicians, and writers of every kind.... more

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Portrait of a Marriage
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.... more

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Jude is a Las Vegas casino dealer who barely survived the deadly MGM fire in 1980. More than two decades later, he’... more

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The Life of a Northern Paiute
Corbett Mack (1892-1974) was a Northern Paiute of mixed ancestry, caught between the Native American and white worlds.... more

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by Robert Laxalt,
Illustrated by George Carlson
In this action filled tale, Laxalt shows the daring and sometimes violent world of the contrabandiers, Basque smugglers in the Pyrenees.... more

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A History
The first comprehensive study of the park, past and present, Death Valley National Park probes the environmental and human history of this most astonishing desert.... more

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Local Life in a Tourist Town
Every year, more than thirty-five million people from all over the world visit Las Vegas; only two million call the city home.... more