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 ...

Wandering through the pine and aspen forests of the 1800s could be a difficult task for a Basque shepherd. Brought to America by the promise of potential wealth, Basque people had developed a ...

ELKO, Nev. — The old Basco sat at the end of the bar, drinking his usual--a powerful punch of picon liquor, club soda, grenadine and brandy. When he spoke, which wasn’t much, it was the language of ...