Before a banner reading “Ongi Etorri” — “welcome” in the Basque language — Grand Junction officials, along with Basques from across Colorado, and from California came together over the weekend to ...

A half-century-old Basque handball court that was nearly knocked down to make way for a parking lot is Colorado’s newest historic treasure. The History Colorado Board of Directors last week approved a ...

Cultural Historic Landscape on San Juan National Forest wins state archaeology award Hispanic and Basque sheepherder culture is etched in the vast aspen forests of Haycamp Mesa in the San Juan ...

Throughout the mountains of the American West, carvings hidden on the trunks of aspen trees tell the stories of the sheepherders who made them as they passed through with their flocks. Most of the men ...