Traveling hundreds of miles through Nevada’s high desert and Ruby Mountains more than a half century ago, a young immigrant from the Basque region of Spain tended his sheep and rarely ventured into a ...

The Basques are a unique population in Western Europe; their language is not related to any Indo-European language. Furthermore, genetically speaking, they have been considered to have distinct ...

BOISE, Idaho – With more than 300 pounds of chorizo sitting in her freezer and 5,000 portions of Basque-style paella prepared in advance, Tara McElhose-Eiguren says she's finally running out of space ...

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Mark Kurlansky is the author of "The Basque History of the World" (Penguin, 2001). Time passes; labels change. That great scourge of the 20th century, anti-communism, is now called anti-terrorism. It ...

ROCK SPRINGS - Where there were sheep, there were Basques. It was true in Wyoming 100 years ago, and remains the same today. Although "Basque Country" consists of a small region between the Pyrenees ...

BOISE, Idaho - Generations after Basques from Spain and France came to work in the West's sheep camps and boarding houses, their descendants can hear their voices and glimpse their faces on the ...

Politics and food are some of the long-lasting marks that Basque immigrants have made on Nevada, and both will be on display at a Republican event in Northern Nevada today. Republicans are gathering ...

Bill Fitzhugh maps the blacksmith’s shop’s floor, 2008. The Smithsonian research vessel PItsuilak rides at anchor in the bay. Fitzhugh and his team live aboard the boat, which takes its name from the ...