Idaho Commission for Libraries

Sweet Promised Land (1957) is a memoir describing Basque immigrant Dominique Laxalt's journey, accompanied by his son, back to his homeland after almost fifty years. As the elder Laxalt revisits the scenes of his youth and speaks with relatives about his hard life in America as a sheepherder, he comes to recognize that the northern Nevada high desert has become his true home.

Robert Laxalt, born in 1923 to a sheep-herder father and a teacher mother in Alturas, California, is a long-time scholar of Basque history and culture. He has published novels, articles, and non-fiction books about Basques and about Nevada.

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