Portraits Of Basques In The New World (The Basque Series) [Hardcover]

Richard W. Etulain (Author), Jeromina Echeverria (Author)

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• Hardcover: 328 pages
• Publisher: University of Nevada Press (August 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0874173329
• ISBN-13: 978-0874173321
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,531,759 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Richard W. Etulain, Professor Emeritus of History at the University of New Mexico, is the author or editor of 50 books. Best known among his books about the history and cultures of the American West are Conversations with Wallace Stegner (1983), Writing Western History (editor, 1991), Re-imagining the Modern American West: A Century of Fiction, History, and Art (1996), Telling Western Stories: From Buffalo Bill to Larry McMurtry (1999), Beyond the Missouri: The Story of the American West (2006), The American West: A Modern History, 1900 to the Present (with Michael P. Malone, 2d ed., 2007), and Lincoln Looks West: From the Mississippi to the Pacific (2010). He has been president of both the Western Literature and Western History associations. He has lectured abroad in several countries, most recently as a Fulbright Lecturer in Ukraine. He is at work on further studies of Abraham Lincoln and on a biography of Calamity Jane.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Basque history of the discovery of the Western US, CA, AZ, NV, May 17, 2010

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This review is from: Portraits Of Basques In The New World (The Basque Series) (Hardcover)

Excellent, detailed, accurate history of Basques in CA & the western US from the time of early Spanish exploration forward !!

Accurate vignets of the personal accounts of the lives of many very famous historical figures and their people. From the Basque family of Juan Baptista De Anza to the many many French and Spanish Basques that followed to the new world.

An EXCELLENT accurate new look at the settlement and day-to-day lives of the courageous Basques who settled into the west and San Francisco, Sierra Nevadas, Nevada and Arizona. I particularly enjoyed the descriptions of the cattle drives up the San Juaquin Valley to the East Bay and across to the "cattle wharfs" in Butchertown's wholesale slaughterhouses. It fills in and pulls together much of the history that I've learned about my own family in the early Butchertown days.

A MUST-READ !