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 ...

Growing up in Spain, Dionisio Choperena loved John Wayne movies and dreamed he would one day live the life of a rancher in the rugged American West. Reality did him one better. The man everybody ...