Description
Created by Laxalt early in his writing career, these sixteen stories evoke a Nevada in the 1950s poised on the brink of change.

Reviews
“This is a humorous and entertaining collection of sixteen tales about buckaroos and injuns and beeves and miners and gamblers—or, broadly speaking, the Old West twice removed. Set and written in the 1950s when the author was in his twenties, these clever and ironic stories show us a Nevada we’ll never see again. Some of the titles alone offer the dusty flavor of the whole: