#basque shepherds

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The Disappearing Arborglyphs Carved by Sheepherders Across the American West

Basque immigrants inscribed jokes, names, and historical happenings on aspen trees.

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“Teenagers were ripped up out of their communities back home, brought to a foreign land, with a foreign language, put up on top of a mountain … crying themselves to sleep at night during the first year on the range,” says William Douglass, Former director of the Center for Basque Studies at the University of Nevada.”

--This is yet another thing to ‘thank’ Franco for. If you laughed at the Doris Day/Peter Graves comedy, “The Ballad of Josie” here’s another chance to look at the hard lives of those sheepherders that provided so much ‘ethnic comedy stock’.