Product Description: A Lady's Life in the Rocky MountainsIsabella L. BirdA BiographyThe platforms of the four front cars were clustered over with Digger Indians, with their squaws, children, and gear. They are perfect savages, without any aptitude for even aboriginal civilization, and are altogether the most degraded of the ill-fated tribes which are dying out before the white races...read more

Product Description: 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 "downwinders...read more

A realistic but nostalgic look at the land that is as much a state of mind as it is an actual place examines what it means to be a westerner today and how present actions are shaping the landscapes, institutions, culture, and potential of the American West for future generations. Original.

Product Description: Our sense of place is permeated by ghosts from the past. In GhostWest, Ann Ronald takes the reader to historical sites where something once happened. Using the metaphor of hauntings, she reflects on how western history, literature, and lore continue to shape our visceral impressions of these sites...read more

Product Description: This edition of Walter Van Tilburg Clark’s collection of short stories—which includes “Hook,” Clark’s most renowned story—makes these pieces available again to a new generation of readers.Critic John R. Milton once said that Walter Van Tilburg Clark "did perhaps more than anyone else to define (in his fiction) the mode of perception, the acquisition of knowledge, and the style which we tend to call Western...read more

Product Description: Ann Ronald found a career and a home when she moved to Reno to teach at the University of Nevada. There, she undertook the study of the literature of the West and discovered that the region's vast open spaces satisfied her zest for the outdoors...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Mention Nevada, and most people think of one of three things: nuclear testing, the feverish glitter of Las Vegas, or a view of drab, endless valleys and barren mountains glimpsed from a car speeding toward California. This title aims to show another side of Nevada combining prose with natural, historical,and anecdotal information...read more

New afterword by Scott Slovic. This volume is the only book-length study that assesses the literary career of Edward Abbey. In a new chapter to this second edition, Ann Ronald celebrates Abbey's legacy of prose and the persona that charmed his readers, and recalls her own pleasures as a reader of his work. Scott Slovic provides an afterword that offers an assessment of Abbey's later works. (view table of contents)

Gathers essays on nature by writers from Emerson and Thoreau to Muir, Eiseley, McPhee, Dillard, and Lopez