A lyrical memoir by Robert Laxalt, dean of Nevada writers, who spent his childhood summers with above Carson City, "going up to sheep camp, sleeping on pine boughs, following the sheep through the day" In this no-nonsense account of his father, Laxalt writes of Basque sheepherder's life in Nevada, and of his father's return after nearly 50 years to his village in the French Pyrenees.  (SWU50, $18.00)