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The official program from the 1971 Elko National Basque Festival, held 3-4 July 1971. This was the 8th year of the Festival. The program includes a map of the Basque country and a short article entitled "Born Free."

The official program from the 1970 Elko National Basque Festival, held 4-5 July 1970. This was the 7th year of the Festival. The program includes some select Basque folksongs and poems.

The official program from the 1969 Elko National Basque Festival, held 5-6 July 1969. This was the 6th year of the Festival. The program is marked as part of the celebration of the Elko Centennial, 1869-1969. Also includes a short essay entitled "A…

In 1937, 8-year-old Kermit Mirena Iriondo was evacuated from the Basque country following the Nazi bombing of Guernica (Basque: Gernika). Along with his old sister and two brothers, he boarded the SS Habana and sailed for England with 3,840 other…

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…

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…

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…

The official program from the 1968 Elko National Basque Festival, held 29-30 June 1968. This was the 5th year of the Festival.

The official program from the 2016 Elko National Basque Festival, held 1-3 July 2016. This was the 53rd year of the Festival. This year, a number of remembrances of local members of the Basque community are included.

A Proclamation by the Governor of Nevada, Brian Sandoval, naming 29 June 2016 a day in honor of "Basque Heritage and Culture in Nevada." The proclamation is dated 24 May 2016.