Lorenzo’s Letters: A Basque Immigrant’s Experience in the American West

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Abstract

In the words of John Bieter's Basque grandfather the "rough" Idaho mountains where he herded sheep were "bald/sparse but pretty steep in places where [they] worked in summer, totally forested with pines." Bieter describes the struggles of nomadic immigrant Basque sheepherders with this harsh, semi-arid terrain of mountain valleys, foothills, and cliffs, dependent on public domain grazing lands.

Original languageAmerican English
Title of host publicationTo Harvest, To Hunt: Stories of Resource Use in the American West
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2007

Keywords

  • Basque

EGS Disciplines

  • Basque Studies
  • History

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