Laxalt, Robert

Sweet Promised Land

George Carlson Reno, NV: University of Nevada Press, [1986]. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. 22 cm, 176 pages. Illus. Foreword by William O. Douglas. Signed by the author. Laxalt was a Basque sheepherder raised on the Pyrenees in France, and the brother of Senator Paul Laxalt. As a young man he left home to seek his fortune in the America, and to try his skill with sheep and mountains in the lonely vastness of the Sierras in Nevada. Condition: Very good / very good.

Keywords: Nevada, Sheepherding, Immigrants, Pyrenees, Sierras, Americanism, American Dream, Liberty, Signed

ISBN: 0874171148

[Book #31549]

Price: $45.00