Checked Out!, the official podcast of the University Libraries, is back with a new episode focusing on the Jon Bilbao Basque Library located on the third floor of the Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center.

University Libraries is home to a variety of unique collections consisting of the Special Collections and University Archives Department and the Jon Bilbao Basque Library. Both departments are located ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Carvings made over decades by Basque herders are endangered as their canvas, the aspens, are at risk. Sawtooth Mountains, 2011, ...

The US' Basque immigrants turned to sheepherding in order to survive. Today, their legacy can be found in unique wooden tree carvings they left throughout the American West. Iñaki Arrieta Baro ...

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 ...