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Internationally renowned and award-winning journalist delivers a sophisticated and in-depth portrait of Korean Americans in Los Angeles

Tells the story of how the Cahuilla nations have used self-reliance and determination to maintain their culture and independence against threats past and present. From California's "war of extermination" to today's challenges, Gordon shows that successful responses have depended on challenging non-natives' assumptions and misconceptions.

Brings together histories, biographies, close readings, and theories about the literary and cultural left in the American West. Left in the West expands our understanding of what constitutes the literary left in the US by including writers, artists, and movements not typically considered within the traditional context of the literary left.

A dynamic study of Nevada government and politics from its inception down to the present day

Provides an engaging and meticulously researched study of Basque emigration to the Americas. Ranging over the entire former Spanish American empire and covering over five centuries of history, José Manuel Azcona examines the roles and fates of the Basques who came to the New World, and studies the impact of the New World on the Basque Country.

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No other western story is more famous than the Donner Party's ill-fated journey through the Sierra Nevada. But three years later and several hundred miles south, another group faced a similar situation just as perilous. Scrupulously researched and documented, Grit and Gold tells the story of the Death Valley Jayhawkers of 1849.

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After unearthing her great-grandparents' diaries, Mary Ann Hooper set out on a journey to retrace their 1871 trip across the United States on the newly-opened Transcontinental Railroad. Filled with rich details of time, place, and culture, Mary Ann's thoughtful and compelling narrative is both a re-creation of a family journey and a thoughtful account of how the American West has changed.

Examines stories told by and about Indigenous American, Euroamerican, and Mexican walkers. Walking as a central experience that ties these texts together - never simply a metaphor or allegory - offers storytellers and authors an elastic figure through which to engage diverse cultural practices and beliefs including Puritan and Catholic teachings, Anishinaabe oral traditions, Chicanx histories, and European literary traditions.

Examines the work, hazards, and health and safety programs from the early building of the railroad through the construction of the Hoover Dam, chemical manufacturing during World War II, nuclear testing, and dense megaresort construction. In doing so, this comprehensive chronicle reveals the long and unfortunate history of exposing workers, residents, tourists, and the environment to dangerous work.

One of America's most significant architects of conservation and the environment, Stewart Udall, comes to life in this environmental biography. Perhaps no other public official or secretary of the interior has ever had as much success in environmental protection, natural resource conservation, and outdoor recreation opportunity creation as Udall.

A wide-ranging approach to the social, economic, and racial issues of gambling in American culture

Featuring an interview with Willy Vlautin himself, this edited collection aims to develop the first serious, critical consideration of his important novels and songs by exploring relations between region, music, and writing through the lens of critical regionality and other interdisciplinary, cultural, and theoretical methodologies.

A careful analysis of how California's mythos and social history was molded by its literature

Rock art is one of humankind's most ancient forms of artistic expression, and one of its most enigmatic. In Great Basin Rock Art, twelve rock art researchers examine a number of significant sites from the dual perspectives of settlement archaeology and contemporary Native American interpretations of rock art's role in their cultural past.

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