Basque hotels were that they were a home away from home for the sheepherders, where they could speak Basque, play cards and have good food. About the herders, what they did and how they felt about their lifestyle. Who were the best sheepherders according to someone, scots and irishmen but the Basques would always stay with the sheep and never leave them. Books by Robert Laxalt The Violent Land: Tales the Old Timers Tell. Reno: Nevada Publishing Co., 1950. Sweet Promised Land. New York: Harper & Row, 1957. A Man in the Wheatfield. New York: Harper & Row, 1964. Selected by the American Library Association as one of the six notable works of American fiction that year. Nevada. New York: Coward McCann, 1970. Children's book. In a Hundred Graves: A Basque Portrait. University of Nevada Press, 1972. Nevada: A Bicentennial History. New York: Norton, 1977. A Cup of Tea in Pamplona. University of Nevada Press, 1985. Nominated for a 1985 Pulitzer Prize in fiction. A Basque Hotel. University of Nevada Press, 1989. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. A Time We Knew: Images of Yesterday in the Basque Homeland. University of Nevada Press, 1990. The Child of the Holy Ghost. University of Nevada Press, 1992 A Lean Year and Other Stories. University of Nevada Press, 1994. 16 Short Stories. The Governor's Mansion. University of Nevada Press, 1994. Dust Devils, University of Nevada Press, 1997. A Private War: An American Code Officer in the Belgian Congo. University of Nevada Press, 1998. The Land of My Fathers: A Son's Return to the Basque Country. University of Nevada Press, 1999. Time of the Rabies. University of Nevada Press, 2000. Travels With My Royal: A Memoir of the Writing Life. University of Nevada Press, 2001. Books and Selected Articles About Robert Laxalt Etulain, Richard. "Robert Laxalt: Basque Writer of the American West" in Portraits of Basques in the New World. University of Nevada Press; 1999. pp. 212–29. Lerude, Warren. Robert Laxalt: Stories of a Storyteller. Reno, Nevada: Center for Basque Studies, University of Nevada, Reno, 2013. Rio, David. Robert Laxalt: The Voice of the Basques in American Literature. Reno, Nevada: Center for Basque Studies, University of Nevada, Reno, 2007. Rio, David. "Robert Laxalt: A Basque Pioneer in the American Literary West." American Studies International; 2003 Oct; 41(3): 60–81. Rio Raigades, David; Urza, Carmelo, translator. "Identity and Transition in In a Hundred Graves: A Basque Portrait."