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During the 1920s, a rabies epidemic swept across northern Nevada, decimating wildlife and livestock herds. This historic event is the background for acclaimed writer Robert Laxalt's brilliant new novella. Time of the Rabies follows owner Pete Lorda and his family and ranch hands as the epidemic swirls around them, pulling humans and animals into an epic battle against an invisible but deadly foe. Beginning when a roving coyote is bitten by a rabid...

Artemisia lives in Nevada, and happily spends most of her time along the Truckee river, but she is also Basque, on her mother's side, though this does not really mean much to her-- until she goes to the Basque Country and gets to know her grandmother and her world.

"Biography of the Nevada writer Robert Laxalt that focuses on his writing career from journalist to acclaimed author, founder of the University of Nevada Press, and educator"--Provided by publisher.

Reminiscences of the author's youth as he assists his father, a Basque immigrant to California, with their sheep business.

"This book contributes to a wider understanding of the significance of the Basque immigration in the western sheep industry with a historically refreshed perspective. It contributes to the existing new historiography of the American West by looking more critically at the Basque immigrant experience in the open-range sheep industry of Nevada. It deconstructs the essentialist view that attributed to Basques special sheepherding skills by exploring this...