Basque Immigrants and Nevada's Sheep Industry: Geopolitics and the Making of an Agricultural Workforce, 1880-1954

ISBN-13: 9781943859993 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 252 str.

Iker Saitua

Spis treści

• Note for Users ix
• Introduction: The Basque Frontier of the American West 1
• Part I: After the Sheep Rush
• 1. The Promises of the Silver State: The Development of the Sheep Industry in Nevada, 1850–1900 29
  2. Becoming Herders: Basque Immigration, Labor, and Settlement in Nevada, 1880–1910 54
• Part II: The Struggle for Legitimacy
• 3. Encroaching Upon Forbidden Ground: Basque Immigrant Sheepherders and the Creation of National Forests in Nevada 83
  4. “Desirable Immigrants”: Socio-Economic Ambivalence and Basque Labor in Nevada’s Sheep Industry, 1910–1939 111
• Part III: The Making of a Good Sheepherder
• 5. “Grasping at a Straw”: The Basque Labor Shortage in the Nevada and Western Sheep Industry during the Second World War 151
• 6. The Indispensable Basque Sheepherder: Senator Patrick McCarran and the Sheep Lobby, the Exclusion of Mexicans, and the Recruitment of Basque Immigrants in the Western Sheep Industry during WWII 179
• 7. The Basque Immigrant Sheepherder Question and U.S.-Spanish Relations during the early Cold War, 1945–1954 215
• Acknowledgments 265
• Bibliography 267
• About the Author 287
• Index 289