Lester Shaw Jr. - Oral history (06/01/2016)
Oral history interview with Lester Shaw Jr., Western Shoshone from Duck Valley Reservation (Owhyee) on 06/01/2016
<p>Lester Shaw Jr. was born in Boise, ID and was son to Lester Shaw and Lillian Thomas Shaw. Lester currently resides on the Duck Valley Reservation where he attended school until 1961 and became president of the FFA and participated in various sports. During this period he helped out at his dad’s mom’s ranch pushing cattle, branding horses, and putting-up hay. After he finished High School he worked at Spanish Ranch to save up to attend Haskell Institute in Kansas until he was drafted into the military in 1964. While serving in the military he was sent to Germany and Vietnam during the war, at which time he received the Bronze star and was inducted into the Military Order of the Purple Heart. He also spent much of his life learning masonry which he taught to the youth which he advises to keep up their traditions and Native language.</p>
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<p>Interviewed by Norm Cavanaugh</p>
Great Basin Indian Archives
Great Basin Indian Archives - GBIA 052
Great Basin Indian Archives
06/02/2016 [02 June 2016]; 2016 June 02
Norm Cavanaugh [interviewer]; James Hedrick [GBIA/VHC]; Scott A. Gavorsky [VHC]; University of Utah SYLAP [streaming video]; Great Basin College; BARRICK Gold of North America
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MP4
English
Delaine George - Oral history (06/02/2016)
Oral history interview with Delaine George, Western Shoshone from Duckwater Reservation, NV on 06/02/2016
<p>Delaine George is a Shoshone from the Duckwater tribe, and she is part of the Adams family. Her mother and father came from Beatty, NV. She had 2 brother and 1 sister along with a lot of nieces, nephews, and grandsons. She grew up in Duckwater with no water or electricity, but recalls when her siblings would go to a creek to fish and swim. She then speaks about going to school in Currant, NV, Stewart Indian School, and then to Haskell Indian School among others. She then speaks about the different occupations she had and how she traveled around and ended up back at Duckwater Reservation.</p>
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<p>Interviewed by Norm Cavanaugh</p>
Great Basin Indian Archives
Great Basin Indian Archives - GBIA 047
Great Basin Indian Archives
06/02/2016 [02 June 2016]; 2016 June 02
Norm Cavanaugh [interviewer]; Marissa Weaselboy [GBIA]; Scott A. Gavorsky [VHC]; James Hedrick [GBIA/VHC]; University of Utah SYLAP [streaming video]; Great Basin College; BARRICK Gold of North America
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English
Doris Millet Allison - Oral history (04/22/2016)
Oral history interview with Doris Millet Allison, Western Shoshone from Duckwater reservation, NV on 04/22/2016
<p>Doris Millet Allison was born in Austin, NV and moved to Round Mountain, NV then eventually moved to Duckwater Reservation, NV when she was 8 years old. Her grandfather originated from Maahadaquada Ghana (Smoky Valley, NV) and her grandmother’s family was part of the Yomba dicca (Yomba reservation). She reminisces about her childhood and how the U.S. government used to come and take the Shoshone children including her sister which she never heard from again. She illuminates the history of her family and the events therein. She also speaks about her education from White Pine high school up to the judicial college in Reno, NV. Doris also speaks about how the Duckwater Reservation came into being with the 1942 Indian Reservation Act. She ends by saying, “We live in this society, a dominant society, but we should remember who we are (as Shoshone).”</p>
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<p>Interviewed by Norm Cavanaugh</p>
Great Basin Indian Archives
Great Basin Indian Archives - GBIA 049
Great Basin Indian Archives
04/22/2016 [22 April, 2016]; 2016 April 22
Norm Cavanaugh [interviewer]; James Hedrick [VHC/GBIA]; Scott A. Gavorsky [VHC]; University of Utah SYLAP [streaming video]; Great Basin College; BARRICK Gold of North America
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English; some Shoshoni
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]
VHC Deposit Agreement on file
pdf/a2-b; 20 pages
English; Basque
"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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pdf; 9 pages
English
1870 - 2010
Ramon and Jame Zugazaga at Goicoechea Ranch, 1960s
Color photo of Ramon (left) and Jame (right) Zugazaga, herders for the Jess Goicoechea Ranch, in the 1960s.
Unknown
Personal collection of Angie de Braga
Virtual Humanities Center at Great Basin College
1960s
Scott A. Gavorsky [VHC]
Personal collection of Angie de Braga
jpeg; 150 dpi; 651 px X 984 px
Branding a Calf at the HB Ranch - undated
Black and white photo of a calf being branded. Marked on back "HB Ranch" - no date.
Unknown
Person collection of Angie de Braga
Virtual Humanities Center at Great Basin College
Scott A. Gavorsky [VHC]
Personal collection of Angie de Braga
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"Basque Sheepherders"
<p>An history and analysis of the life of Basque sheepherders from the 1850s into the mid-20th century. Particular emphasis is placed on the experience of those in Elko County, Nevada, in the 20th century <span>as recounted in personal interviews with former Basque sheepherders in the Elko area. Interviewees included Jean-Baptiste Ardans, Anna Hachquet, Frank Lespade, and Loyd Sorenson.</span></p>
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Elva Aylesworth
<em>Northeastern Nevada Historical Society Quarterly</em> 94.4 (Winter 1994): 200-208.
Northeastern Nevada Museum
Winter 1994
Gretchen Skivington [GBC]; Scott A. Gavorsky [VHC]
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pdf; 10 pages
English
1850 - 1950
"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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pdf; 15 pages
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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pdf; 18 pages
English
1925-1935