RUPERT • Henry Etcheverry whistled, and a row of sheep dashed down a fenced dirt path. On the other end, two men branded the freshly sheared animals. It was late morning on St. Patrick’s Day, exactly ...

Throughout the mountains of the American West, carvings hidden on the trunks of aspen trees tell the stories of the sheepherders who made them as they passed through with their flocks. Most of the men ...

It was late morning on St. Patrick’s Day, exactly 13 years after Etcheverry’s father, Jean Pierre, died. The man from Bidarray in the French Basque Country was one of the big sheep outfit owners at ...

The PhD thesis of the University of the Basque Country researcher, Ms Guadalupe Ramos Truchero, tackled the reasons why the Basque animal husbandry sector, specifically that of dairy sheep farming, is ...

Inaugurated on Aug. 27, 1989, the huge green sculpture sits mute on the north side of McCarran by the baseball field. Who built it, and why? The homeland of the Basques is in the western nook of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Carvings made over decades by Basque herders are endangered as their canvas, the aspens, are at risk. Sawtooth Mountains, 2011, ...