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COPYRIGHT 2001 Transaction Publishers, Inc.
Jeronima Echeverria. Reno & Las Vegas: University of Nevada Press, 1999. xv + 359 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, notes, glossary, bibliography and index. $44.95.
I have had the pleasure of hearing Dr. Echeverria lecture on this topic, and the verve, dedication, and scholarship that are evident in her lectures translate remarkably well to the pages of her book. Beginning with a synopsis of the demographic and political reasons Basques began emigrating to the American West during the nineteenth century, Echeverria segues quickly from California's Mother Lode to the Basque shift away from mining into sheep ranching and the legislation of the 1920s and...
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