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Author:   Iker Saitua
Publisher:   University of Nevada Press
Imprint:   University of Nevada Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.505kg
ISBN:  

9781943859993

ISBN 10:   194385999
Pages:   252
Publication Date:   30 March 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Note for Users ix Introduction: The Basque Frontier of the American West 1 Part I: After the Sheep Rush 1. The Promises of the Silver State: The Development of the Sheep Industry in Nevada, 1850–1900 29 2. Becoming Herders: Basque Immigration, Labor, and Settlement in Nevada, 1880–1910 54 Part II: The Struggle for Legitimacy 3. Encroaching Upon Forbidden Ground: Basque Immigrant Sheepherders and the Creation of National Forests in Nevada 83 4. “Desirable Immigrants”: Socio-Economic Ambivalence and Basque Labor in Nevada’s Sheep Industry, 1910–1939 111 Part III: The Making of a Good Sheepherder 5. “Grasping at a Straw”: The Basque Labor Shortage in the Nevada and Western Sheep Industry during the Second World War 151 6. The Indispensable Basque Sheepherder: Senator Patrick McCarran and the Sheep Lobby, the Exclusion of Mexicans, and the Recruitment of Basque Immigrants in the Western Sheep Industry during WWII 179 7. The Basque Immigrant Sheepherder Question and U.S.-Spanish Relations during the early Cold War, 1945–1954 215 Acknowledgments 265 Bibliography 267 About the Author 287 Index 289

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Out of all these years of research and work in Nevada and other states with an important Basque presence came his book, in which he tells the process the Basque community in that part of the US went through to be as recognized as they are today.--About Basque Country

It is clearly the best published study of Basque herders and sheep-owning ranches in any western state. Other scholars interested in tracing Basque experiences in the American West will find this an emulative model for their work. Academics intrigued with the full scope of American ethnic experiences will encounter here the strongest monograph now available on the energetic Basques--in one state. Altogether, a valuable, rewarding study.--Journal of American Ethnic History Out of all these years of research and work in Nevada and other states with an important Basque presence came his book, in which he tells the process the Basque community in that part of the US went through to be as recognized as they are today.--About Basque Country

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Iker Saitua is a Basque Country native and professor of economic history at the University of Basque Country in Leioa, Spain.

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