Robert Laxalt
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Robert Laxalt was a Basque-American writer from Nevada. Biography Robert Laxalt was born in 1923, a decade and a half after his father Dominique Laxalt and his mother Theresa Laxalt had emigrated to the United States in 1906 to herd sheep. His brother Paul Laxalt later became Governor of Nevada and then a United States senator . After graduating from Carson City High School, Robert Laxalt attended Santa Clara University and then the University of Nevada at Reno.
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Published Works
- Sweet Promised Land (1957) (6)
- Nevada: A Bicentennial History (1977) (3)
- The indomitable basques (1985) (3)
- The Basque Hotel (1989) (2)
- The Governor's Mansion (1994) (2)
- The Land of My Fathers: A Son's Return to the Basque Country (1999) (2)
- New Mexico, the golden land (1970) (2)
- New Mexico's mountains of mystery (1978) (1)
- Land of the ancient basques (1968) (1)
- Time of the rabies (2000) (1)
- Golden ghosts of the Lost Sierra (1973) (1)
- Child of the Holy Ghost (1992) (1)
- The gauchos: last of a breed (1980) (1)
- The enduring Pyrenees (1974) (0)
- In a hundred graves; a Basque portrait (1972) (0)
- A Cup of Tea in Pamplona (1985) (0)
- The other Nevada (1974) (0)
- A Man in the Wheatfield (1964) (0)
- Travels with My Royal: A Memoir of the Writing Life (2001) (0)
- A Time We Knew: Images of Yesterday in the Basque Homeland (1990) (0)
- Lonely sentinels of the American West: basque sheepherders (1966) (0)
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