Books published by University of Nevada Press

Imposing Order without Law examines the history surrounding nineteenth century American settlers in two remote regions--the slopes of the Eastern Sierra Nevada and the Honey Lake Valley--who used extralegal means to establish order in their communities. The book reveals the use and effects of group violence used to enforce community edicts which transformed the Native People's world into colonial outposts.

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. In Mapping the Empty Fox considers how eight of the state's most distinguished and innovative contemporary artists have responded to the harsh, enigmatic landscapes of the Great Basin and how, through their work, they have expressed and helped to define our attitudes toward the space we call the West. The artists are Jim McCormick, Rita Deanin Abbey, Dennis Parks, Walter McNamara, Robert Beckmann, Michael Heizer, Bill Barker, and Mary Ann Bonjorni.

Winner, TopShelf Magazine Book Awards Historical Non-fiction.Finalist, Northern California Book Awards General Non-FictionLook. Smell. Taste. Judge. Crush is the 200-year story of the heady dream that wines as good as the greatest of France could be made in California. A dream dashed four times in merciless succession until it was ultimately realized in a stunning blind tasting in Paris. In that tasting, in the year of America's bicentennial, California wines took their place as the leading wines of the world.For the first time, Briscoe tells the complete and dramatic story of the ascendancy of California wine in vivid detail. He also profiles the larger story of California itself by looking at it from an entirely innovative perspective, the state seen through its singular wine history.With dramatic flair and verve, Briscoe not only recounts the history of wine and winemaking in California, he encompasses a multidimensional approach that takes into account an array of social, political, cultural, legal, and winemaking sources. Elements of this history have plot lines that seem scripted by a Sophocles, or Shakespeare. It is a fusion of wine, personal histories, cultural, and socioeconomic aspects.Crush is the story of how wine from California finally gained its global due. Briscoe recounts wine's often fickle affair with California, now several centuries old, from the first harvest and vintage, through the four overwhelming catastrophes, to its amazing triumph in Paris.

Going It Alone is the story of the conflict between joy and loneliness Tim Hauserman discovered on a series of backpack trips in the wilderness: a tale of self-induced misadventures and overwhelming sadness but also many moments of sublime rapture. It is a humorous, humble take on the experience of spending time alone in the wilderness--part exquisite nature journal, part Bill Bryson in the woods--with a unique voice and take on the world.

Thomas Savage (1915-2003) was one of the best of the Intermountain West novelists for several decades of the twentieth century. His thirteen novels received high critical praise but low sales throughout his career. O. Alan Weltzien's insightful and detailed literary biography chronicles the life and work of this neglected but talented novelist.

Drawing upon literature, film, websites, journals, public policy documents, and other writing, this innovative study models an interdisciplinary approach to water governance that reinvigorates our imagination to foster a more sustainable and equitable Colorado River water ethic

Throughout history, the Latinx population has contributed substantially to Nevada's mining, railroad, farming, ranching, and tourism industries. Latinos in Nevada provides a comprehensive analysis of this fastest-growing and diverse ethnic group, exploring the impact of the Hispanic/Latinx population on the Silver State in the past, present, and future.

Presents a fictionalized story of immigration told from the point of view of the granddaughter of Basque immigrant grandparents and daughter of a prominent first-generation family. The Deep Blue Memory addresses themes central to all of human existence.

Sandra Miller demonstrated in The Color of Rock that she is a gifted storyteller. Where Light Comes and Goes deftly combines a gripping mystery set in the accurately depicted routine of a busy medical practice amid the wonders of Yellowstone's magnificent scenery and wildlife. This is entertaining reading at its best.

Wry, compassionate, and deftly observed, the poems in The Mouth of Earth contemplate how we might live wisely in the midst of a planetary change we barely comprehend. This vivid, compelling book is a powerful contribution to environmental literature of the 21st century.

In interweaving the voices of an entire fictional town that is about to be changed forever by the destruction of a dam, these poems highlight the environment, both human and natural, that sexual trauma is born from, and calls to attention the many ways in which we create intimacy and distance when our trauma is kept secret.

Tells the story of a community coming to grips with the federal government's crackdown on immigrants and learning how to defend itself. Informative and personal, this is a story about mothers and fathers, lawyers and activists, local police and federal agencies, and a struggle for the identity of a nation.

These stories magnify and make real the hidden dialogue of society. Readers are left to grapple with the implications and ramifications of the policies and attitudes pervasive in the United States today and question what it means for the future.

The Basque language is one of Europe's most ancient, its origins as mysterious as those of the Basque people themselves. Aurrera! is a comprehensive text for beginning-level students who are learning Basque in a classroom setting or on their own.

From critically acclaimed author Frank Bergon comes a new personal narrative about the San Joaquin Valley in California. This intimate companion to Two-Buck Chuck & The Marlboro Man brings us back to an Old West at odds with New West realities where rapid change is a common trait and memories are of rural beauty.

Investigates the relationship between industrial food and the emergence of literary modernisms in Britain and Ireland. Weaving insights from modernist studies, food studies, and ecocriticism, Farm to Form contends that industrial food made nature "modernist", a term used as literary scholars understand it.

One of the area's foremost experts on the outdoors, Mike White, author of 50 of the Best Strolls, Walks, and Hikes Around Reno, returns with a new guidebook dedicated to Carson City and its surrounding areas in northern Nevada.

A strategic guide for administrators and educators that offers methods for advising students through the myriad of challenges they face. Every bit of success contributes to the accomplishment of a larger goal, and this book highlights success at every level.

From the author of the critically-acclaimed novel, I'd Walk with My Friends If I Could Find Them, Jesse Goolsby's Acceleration Hours is a haunting collection of narratives about families, life, and loss during America's twenty-first-century forever wars.

A sweeping, multi-layered novel based on the US government's decision to open more routes to California during the Gold Rush. To help navigate this waterless, largely unexplored territory, the War Department imported seventy-five camels to help traverse the brutal terrain that was murderous on other livestock.

Inspired by true events, The Brightest Place in the World traces the lives of four characters haunted by an industrial disaster. Against the sordid backdrop of Las Vegas - and inspired by the PEPCON disaster of May 4th, 1988 - this engaging novel is a story of grief and regret, disloyalty and atonement, infatuation and love.

Chronicles the life and legacies of one of the most intriguing and accomplished Americans of the twentieth century. Based on in-depth interviews with individuals who knew and worked with Hughes, the book provides an insider's view of his final years and their aftermath, as well as a detailed assessment of his legacies and impact on popular culture.

Set in the context of the regional, national, and global wine community, this story of the Northern California wine industry illuminates a regional story of how the Santa Barbara wine industry found solutions to current market conditions while utilizing local traditions to develop a new version of local wine terroir.

Explores the presence and influence of theatre in the West during the Victorian era. San Francisco, Carolyn Grattan Eichin argues, served as the centre of the western theatrical world, having attained prominence behind only New York and Boston as the nation's most important theatrical centre by 1870.

In this meticulously researched study of Basque boardinghouses in the United States, Jeronima Echeverria offers a compelling history of the institution that most deeply shaped Basque immigrant life and served as the centre of Basque communities throughout the West.

Drawing from his San Joaquin Valley childhood, a career devoted to studying the West, and interviews with a range of ethnically diverse people, Bergen presents an intimate portrait of an Old West in conflict with the New, and traces the way traditional values sometimes clash with and at other times adjust to a changing world.

A rousing memoir about the modern-day lives of cowboys and ranchers. While Collins recounts stories of quirky ranch horses, cranky cow critters, cow dogs, and the people who use and care for them, he also paints a rural West struggling to survive the onslaught of relentless suburbanization.

Transports readers into the Arizona landscape where they join Dr. Abby Wilmore in the challenges of practicing rural medicine, overcoming personal demons, and finding love. Starting a new medical career at the Grand Canyon Clinic, Abby struggles to figure out her personal life amid the task of providing health care to a wide array of patients.