They've been a culture without a country for so long, it's little surprise that pockets of Basque life can be found throughout the West. They began arriving in the 1800s from Basque country, which ...

Family-style dinner at the Noriega Hotel includes cabbage soup, pickled tongue and bowls of spicy Basque salsa. Ann Summa There are a lot of reasons to go through Bakersfield, California, even if you ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Courtesy of Visit Boise Basque dishes at Ansots Idaho’s most famous food export may still be the potato, but the Gem State’s ...

BOISE, Idaho — Generations after Basques from Spain and France came to work in the West’s sheep camps and boardinghouses, their descendants can hear their voices and glimpse their faces on 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, ...

John Bieter never knew his grandfather. A Basque immigrant from Spain, his grandfather had died by the time his grandson was born in Idaho. But Bieter has found a way to connect with the world where ...

During a recent conversation with a friend who was asking about the Basques in Nevada, I remembered the book, “Sweet Promised Land,” by Robert Laxalt, which I read several years ago. At about the same ...

Inspired by a youth women’s team’s trip to Idaho, “Boise” explores identity and what it means to be Basque from thousands of ...

Amuma Says No is a Basque American band based in Boise, Idaho. Keeping the heart and soul of Basque music in America, the band brings together the best of traditional trikitixa—a duo of accordion and ...

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 ...

Boise’s Basque Block lures travelers with frosty kalimotxos, snacky pintxos, and a highly anticipated cultural festival. Idaho’s most famous food export may still be the potato, but the Gem State’s ...