Martin Hotel, a hotel that served as a boardinghouse for Basque sheepherders.

Basques have been living in Northern Nevada for over a century and form a population of several thousand. Basque immigrants first came in the mid-1800s during the Gold rush. The Basques have also been closely-tied to sheep herding in Nevada and neighboring states.

The Basque-American culture is especially prominent in the town of Winnemucca.[1][2] Basque immigrants to Winnemucca founded the Martin Hotel and the Winnemucca Hotel, both of which were associated with the Basque sheepherders.[3][4]

Winnemucca Hotel, a hotel that served as a boardinghouse for Basque sheepherders.

References

  1. ↑ Billock, Jennifer. "How a Remote Nevada Town Became a Bastion of Basque Culture". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 2021-03-05.
  2. ↑ "Basque Culture". Winnemucca Convention & Visitors Authority. Archived from the original on 2013-03-04. Retrieved 2013-06-19.
  3. ↑ "Basque culture leaves its mark on Nevada". Las Vegas Review-Journal. 2018-01-28. Retrieved 2021-03-05.
  4. ↑ "Nevada's Basque History – Nevada Magazine". nevadamagazine.com. Retrieved 2021-03-05.

Further reading

  • Douglass, William, and Jon Bilbao. Amerikanuak: Basques in the New World. (University of Nevada Press, 1975).
  • Saitua, Iker. Basque Immigrants and Nevada's Sheep Industry: Geopolitics and the Making of an Agricultural Workforce, 1880–1954 (2019) excerpt
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