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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Jeronima Echeverria. Home Away from Home: A History of Basque Boardinghouses. (The Basque Series.) Reno: University of Nevada Press. 1999. Pp. xv, 359. $44.95.

Immigrants from the Basque country of Spain and France never rivaled the larger numbers of Southern and Eastern European immigrants who came to the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet they had a significant impact on the sheep industry and a dozen states in the American West. And, as Jeronima Echeverria argues in her meticulously researched book, Basque immigrants created and sustained a unique ethnic institution, ostatua Amerikanuak, or the hotels and boardinghouses that became the centerpiece of American Basque social, economic, and cultural life. This book chronicles the emergence of these institutions in major Basque centers such as Los Angeles and San Francisco, which declined with a weakened wool industry and urbanization, and in "spin-off" communities that arose in agricultural California and the Great Basin. 1

Echeverria explores the demographic, economic, and political factors that encouraged Basque migration and debunks the long-standing myth that Basques brought to the West a particular affinity for or expertise in sheepherding. Vignettes about the life of Lentxo Echanis introduce and conclude the book. As a typical male immigrant, Echanis left industrial work in Europe to join brothers in southeastern Oregon as a sheepherder. Like others, he relied on Basque boardinghouses for food, shelter, job networks, translations, recreation, and friendships during his eighty years in the United States. . . .

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