2008 Elko National Basque Festival Program
The official program from the 2008 Elko National Basque Festival, held 4-6 July 2008. This was the 45th year of the Festival. The Festival Theme celebrated the Basque sheepherder. The program featured an original cover drawing by Anna Urrizaga and Basque Sheepherder photos and documents from the collection at the Northeastern Nevada Museum. The program also featured short histories of Basque hotels in Elko, such as the Star Hotel.
Elko Euzkaldunak Club
Scanned copy of original program
Elko Euzkaldunak Club
4-6 July 2008
Scott A. Gavorsky [VHC]
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pdf/a2-b; 20 pages
English; Basque
"Civilian Conservation Corps, Elko County: 1933-1942"
<p>An history of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) operations in Elko County during the Great Depression. Diana L. Neff, a Northeastern Nevada Community College student at the time, tracked the development of CCC camps from the original reforestation camp at Lamoille in the Ruby Mountains to the later camps at Tuscarora, Gold Creek, Angel Lake, and the Hubbard Ranch, and the related camp at Cherry Creek in White Pine County.</p>
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Diana L. Neff
<em>Northeastern Nevada Historical Society Quarterly</em>, 84.1 (Winter 1984): 16-24
Northeastern Nevada Museum
Winter 1984
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1933-1942
"Basque Tree Carvings"
<p>A summary of Basque tree-carvings in the northeastern Nevada area, based on Richard Lane's investigations in 1969-1970 for his dissertation research. Lane was a graduate student in the Department of Anthropology at Yale University at the time. The article contains a number of photographs of typical types of Basque tree carvings.</p>
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Richard Lane
<p>Original Publication: <em>Northeastern Nevada Historical Society Quarterly</em>, 1.2 (Winter 1971)</p>
<p>Reprint: <em>Northeastern Nevada Historical Society Quarterly</em>, 2001.2 (2001): 64-74.</p>
Northeastern Nevada Museum
1971; 2001
Gretchen Skivington [GBC]; Scott A. Gavorsky [VHC]
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Richard Lane, "The Cultural Ecology of Sheep Nomadism: Northeastern Nevada 1870-1972" (Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Anthropology, Yale University, 1974)
English
"Basque Ranching Culture in the Great Basin"
<p>Mike Laughlin traces the history of the Basque ranching culture in the Great Basin area, from early work on the first cattle ranches in the 1870s through the heyday of sheep-herding to the celebration of this ranching tradition in the modern National Basque Festivals.</p>
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Mike Laughlin
<em>Northeastern Nevada Historical Society Quarterly</em> 2010, 3 & 4 (2010): 38-45
Northeastern Nevada Museum
2010
Gretchen Skivington [GBC]; Scott A. Gavorsky [VHC]
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English
1870 - 2010
"Spanish Ranch Letters"
<p>A selection of letters from San Franciscan Theodore "Teddy" Dierks and Ramon Lugea from 1940 through 1956. Dierks as a young man had been encouraged by Jules Altube of the Spanish Ranch to stay in Tuscarora in 1902 as a treatment for Dierks' tuberculosis. Dierks struck up a friendship with Ramon Lugea, a Basque immigrant on the ranch, which was renewed through this exchange of letters starting around 1940. Compiled by Edna B. Patterson.</p>
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Edna B. Patterson, editor
<em>Northeastern Nevada Historical Society Quarterly</em> 84.1 (Winter 1984): 3-15.
Northeastern Nevada Museum
1984
Scott A. Gavorsky [VHC]
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English
1940-1956
"Memories of Jack Creek, 1925-1935"
<p>Mary B. Urriola Smith lived at Jack Creek Ranch as a young girl from 1925 until 1935, during the period in which her parents Ysidro and Esperanza Urriola leased the ranch. Her childhood memories recount the characters of the day-to-day life on the rural sheep ranch.</p>
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Mary B. Urriola Smith
<em>Northeastern Nevada Historical Society Quarterly</em> 90.2 (1990): 30-44.
Northeastern Nevada Museum
1990
Gretchen Skivington [GBC]; Scott A. Gavorsky [VHC]
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English
1925-1935
"Elko's Overland Hotel: A Family, a Culture . . . and a Memory"
<p>A history of the Overland Hotel in Elko, Nevada, USA, under original owners Domingo (Dan) and Gregoria Sabala from 1908 until 1938. The second largest of the Basque-owned hotels in town, the Overland served as a hostel for new Basque immigrants and one of the centers of the Elko Basque community.</p>
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Gretchen Holbert [Skivington]
<em>Northeastern Nevada Historical Society Quarterly</em> 5.3 (Winter 1975): 13-20.
Northeastern Nevada Museum
Winter 1975
Scott A. Gavorsky [VHC]
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English
1907-1957
"Anacabe's Store: The First Fifty Years"
<p>The Elko General Merchandise Company, known locally as Anacabe's Store, has been an Elko institution for almost 80 years. Operating out of the same location on Idaho Street, the store is a testament both to the Anacabe family and the Basque traditions of multi-generational community.</p>
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Carol Hendershot
<em>Northeastern Nevada Historical Society Quarterly</em> 86.4 (Fall 1986): 104-117.
Northeastern Nevada Museum
Fall 1986
Gretchen Skivington [GBC]; Scott A. Gavorsky [VHC]
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English
"Papa Jack Errecart"
<p>Kimberly Errecart's personal biography of her father, Basque immigrant and long-time Elko resident Jack Errecart. After spending over a decade sheep-herding, Mr. Errecart became an entrepreneur, owning at various times over the years the Palace Bar, the Silver Dollar Club, and the Clifton Bar and Hotel.</p>
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Kimberly Errecart
<em>Northeastern Nevada Historical Society Quarterly</em> 83.3 (Summer 1983): 91-98.
Northeastern Nevada Museum
Summer 1983
Gretchen Skivington [GBC]; Scott A. Gavorsky [VHC]
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English
"It Began in Elko: Big-Name Entertainment in Nevada"
The early history of national big-name entertainment acts in Nevada, focusing on the role of Elko.
Angela Aguirre (de Braga)
Northeastern Nevada Museum Quarterly 2011, no. 4, pgs. 119-134
Northeastern Nevada Museum
1982
Scott A. Gavorsky
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English