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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There is no question that the Basque have left an indelible mark on Kern County as well as parts of the American West. That influence can be seen in food, agriculture and culture as well as actual ...

Mark Kurlansky is the author of "The Basque History of the World" (Penguin, 2001), among other books. His new book, "Boogaloo on Second Avenue: A Novel of Pastry, Guilt, and Music," will be published ...

THE Basques or Euskaldunak (i.e. “the Men”), as they call themselves, are a most remarkable people who have long been an interesting problem to ethnologists. The most anomalous point about the Basques ...