Sweet Promised Land Author:Robert Laxalt Like all his Basque countryment who had come to America half a centuy ago, to settle in the deserts and mountains of the Far West, Dominique dreamed of returning someday to the land of his beginnings in the French Pyrenees. Not this year, but surely the next. When he nearly died alone in the mountains herding sheep, his family intervened and Do... more »minique did at last make the trip. That is the story his son, Robert, tells in Sweet Promised Land.« less