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- catalog abstract "In this collection of sixteen short stories, Robert Laxalt evokes the Nevada of the 1950s with illuminating insight. Written when Laxalt was in his twenties, the stories are as fresh as if they were penned yesterday. Humanity good and bad, humor and cruelty, satire and adventure are found in these early stories of a Nevada poised on the brink of change. In the lead story, Cowboy Clint Hamilton laments that the town is "getting more like a big city every day" as the traditional gambling joints of earlier times give way to the gaudy casinos that will soon become modern glitz. In another story, set in the remote rangelands of northern Nevada where livestock is king, Old Button can only fantasize about being "the best buckaroo that ever lived." On a Paiute Indian reservation only sixty miles from Reno, a citified lawyer learns how thin civilization's veneer can be for two Indian youths who revert to primitive ways of killing without a twinge of remorse. Laxalt finds poignancy in the last of the old timers in small-town Carson City. On a winter's night, Tom walks from his shack to the town's shabby pool hall. There, he finds familiar warmth from the pot-bellied stove and the company of two childhood friends. The friends exist only in ghostly form, but that is enough for old Tom. Dilapidated Virginia City of old silver boom days is determined not to become a ghost town. A mingling of descendants of Cornish miners, a one-time desperado, artists and writers who have found a refuge, and a marshal reincarnated from the Old West provide the author with the ingredients for a delightful spoof. Sobering experiences from his days as a reporter give Laxalt an insight into murderers and prison life and lethal gas chambers. In a chilling short story, "The Snake Pen," we find the seed of Robert Laxalt's celebrated novel, A Man In the Wheatfield.".
- catalog contributor b6207971.
- catalog coverage "Nevada Fiction.".
- catalog coverage "Nevada Social life and customs Fiction.".
- catalog created "c1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "c1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
- catalog description "A lean year -- Old Button -- Sixty miles is a long trip -- The gun -- The law comes to Virginia City -- The herd stalker -- Valley of the Deer -- Formerly, any quadruped -- Wine -- The graduation -- Guest of honor -- Night ride -- Crossroaders -- The murderer -- The snake pen -- The first snow.".
- catalog description "In this collection of sixteen short stories, Robert Laxalt evokes the Nevada of the 1950s with illuminating insight. Written when Laxalt was in his twenties, the stories are as fresh as if they were penned yesterday. Humanity good and bad, humor and cruelty, satire and adventure are found in these early stories of a Nevada poised on the brink of change. In the lead story, Cowboy Clint Hamilton laments that the town is "getting more like a big city every day" as the traditional gambling joints of earlier times give way to the gaudy casinos that will soon become modern glitz. In another story, set in the remote rangelands of northern Nevada where livestock is king, Old Button can only fantasize about being "the best buckaroo that ever lived." On a Paiute Indian reservation only sixty miles from Reno, a citified lawyer learns how thin civilization's veneer can be for two Indian youths who revert to primitive ways of killing without a twinge of remorse. Laxalt finds poignancy in the last of the old timers in small-town Carson City. On a winter's night, Tom walks from his shack to the town's shabby pool hall. There, he finds familiar warmth from the pot-bellied stove and the company of two childhood friends. The friends exist only in ghostly form, but that is enough for old Tom. Dilapidated Virginia City of old silver boom days is determined not to become a ghost town. A mingling of descendants of Cornish miners, a one-time desperado, artists and writers who have found a refuge, and a marshal reincarnated from the Old West provide the author with the ingredients for a delightful spoof. Sobering experiences from his days as a reporter give Laxalt an insight into murderers and prison life and lethal gas chambers. In a chilling short story, "The Snake Pen," we find the seed of Robert Laxalt's celebrated novel, A Man In the Wheatfield.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 188 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Lean year and other stories.".
- catalog identifier "0874172411 (alk. paper) :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Lean year and other stories.".
- catalog isPartOf "Western literature series".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "c1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Reno : University of Nevada Press,".
- catalog relation "Lean year and other stories.".
- catalog spatial "Nevada Fiction.".
- catalog spatial "Nevada Social life and customs Fiction.".
- catalog subject "813/.54 20".
- catalog subject "PS3562.A9525 L43 1994".
- catalog tableOfContents "A lean year -- Old Button -- Sixty miles is a long trip -- The gun -- The law comes to Virginia City -- The herd stalker -- Valley of the Deer -- Formerly, any quadruped -- Wine -- The graduation -- Guest of honor -- Night ride -- Crossroaders -- The murderer -- The snake pen -- The first snow.".
- catalog title "A lean year and other stories / Robert Laxalt.".
- catalog type "Short stories.".
- catalog type "Western stories. gsafd".
- catalog type "text".