| Book Review | Western Historical Quarterly, 32.1

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Home Away from Home: A History of Basque Boardinghouses. By Jeronima Echeverria. (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1999. xv + 359 pp. Illustrations, maps, charts, tables, glossary, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. $44.95.)

Home Away from Home is a definitive and mainly descriptive history of Basque boardinghouses (ostatua) in the United States. Working with extensive primary documents, scores of oral interviews, and previously-published studies, Jeronima Echeverria has written an encyclopedic history of boardinghouses that celebrates these institutions and the people they served. Published as part of the Basque Series, this attractive and useful monograph features a thorough index, full bibliography, and interesting visual materials, including maps, diagrams, and photographs. 1

Home Away from Home begins with a prologue that relates the story of a Basque emigrant, Lentxo Echanis, who joined his brother in the United States before World War I. Relying upon a succession of boardinghouses and their keepers, Echanis made his way from Ellis Island to southeastern Oregon, where he worked as a sheepherder. Throughout his life, Lentxo Echanis--and thousands like him--depended upon boardinghouses for more than lodging. The ostatua provided job opportunities, camaraderie, a taste of home, and potential marriage partners, and Basque-Americans (Amerikanuak) depended more upon their boardinghouses than did other ethnic groups with similar institutions. . . .

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