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 ...

TRUCKEE, Calif. — In the mountains and forests of the American West, there lies a veritable archive tracing the history of Basque shepherds who once roamed the land. It is recorded not on paper, at ...

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