Wow, years ago, back in 1973-74 my husband worked for a Basque Sheep Rancher in Eastern Washington. After a training period, we were put out in the middle of nowhere with several sheep and a sheepherders wagon. We were newly married and it was like camping. Thanks for the memories.
I had a problem with my texting I meant I grew up on a sheep ranch in Caribou county. The Life is just that way,. Our herder was called Frank he had been here for years and spoke good english. He returned to Spain with enough saving to buy his own sheep , We got a Christmas card from him every year until he passed on.
My grandfather on dad's side herded sheep out of Lander, Wyoming. He had is own sheepherders wagon & 2 horses. In later years he took the wagon wheels off & put it on a truck. Did sheep herding & was a hunting guide for hunters from all over the country.
Thanks for posting this video as it has made me learn more about my culture. As any basque person can see by name that I carry the basque name from my grandfather. I am very proud of my grandfathers name from the old country. I like to let others know that the basque do not speak Spanish as many think. They speak their own language that is so old they have no record of it's origins. It is one of the most unique cultures of Europe.
I love the way you did this video Kirsten. The Basque culture intercut with the sheep herding that built that very culture. I've watched your channel grow from just a few hundred subscribers to nearly half a million! I love being transported to different places through your lens and I hope to do this very kind if travel and documenting of buildings, places, people, culture and more. Thank you so much for another incredible video helping my sick disabled self dream of the future and forget another painful day. I live in an old 1976 rv in a commercial storage unit/garage where I used to have my business before falling ill so I have a lot in common with the incredible people you show and feel real kinship that I'm not all alone. Thanks again your channel means a lot to me.
Holy shit...that's Henry! He is a live wire kinda guy & easy to be around as you no doubt found Kirsten. As an immigrant I too fell in love with this area in the late 90's & built a home & a business in the mountains north of Lava & got to know Henry by rescuing his water tankers from the high country. When you get off the pavement here it's wide open country like it's always been.
Kirsten, we'd never be able to see these things if not for your work! Mucho gracious, mi amigo. We've been to Barcelona area for work many times. Oh me, got so sick of paella! Paella, paella, paella, everywhere. That and tapas. Hey y'all, let's go eat Spanish food! Said nobody. Wha' we gonna do for wool and lamb meat when y'all herder boys are gone? We need people doing that important work. Si, asta la vista mi amigo.
What a wonderful gentleman. I would happily work in his sheep camps. I enjoy staying out with my sheep and looking after them. Animals raised like this are so much better for earth, the sheep, and the people who eat and utilize them. Much love ❤️ 🙏
Oh, my God Kirsten. You can Speak Español.How wonderful and Ye gods, from afar am I proud of you.And I speak Hungarian and can read Spanish a fair bit. Jolly good it is to know more than English.DO trust in God that the way of life will not Die out after t his Lovely Gent passes from our Earth.
THE DOCUMENTARIES ARE REMARKABBLE, THE PEOPLE, THE LAND THE STORIES. I AM ALWAYS HUMBLED WHEN I SEE A STORY LIKE THIS. I TOO AM IN IDAHO WAITING TO BUILD MY HOUSE LIVING IN MY TRUCK.
that is such beautiful bush country , and i agree when he says at 16:30 into the video , that if you cant appreciate this , something is wrong with your head ,,
Very cool video, we recently picked up a sheep wagon so it was fun to see a working one. I grew up on a cow outfit but my dad and Grandpa talked about sheep and sheep wagons all the time. I hope Etcheverry is able to find a passionate young person to take over his place.
Love the Basque culture! Thankfully, there are still many Basque families living/working/thriving in Northern Nevada. It's pretty awesome to see the shepherds moving their flocks twice a year. They move their flocks right down our street as if we weren't even here. It's pretty surreal...like two mismatched timelines briefly converging. It's nothing short of miraculous to watch these shepherds move HUNDREDS of sheep over mountains, across major highways, through new housing subdivisions...usually with nothing more than a couple of well-trained dogs. Most shepherds that I've seen don't even ride horses, they just walk alongside the sheep, give an occasional whistle, and that's about it. How they keep them all together, I'll never know. I'll be very sad when we no longer see them moving across land. And Basque people from the Pyrenees are awesome...such a unique heritage that they should all be rightfully proud of!
thankyou its so nice to be able to learn in this way ,good honest journalism I love the way you did this video Kirsten. The Basque culture intercut with the sheep herding that built that very culture
Absolutely fantastic, informative video. I've always been fascinated by stateless nations, and this was a great peek at a historic ethnic enclave I was unaware of.
very wonderful coverage of a beautiful time in American history. I love how you've given great insight into the "sheppard's hut" and shown it's practical and original use, not simply showing some urbanite using it as a studio.
I had watched this video previously dear Kirsten. It is amazing and so awesome to see people from overseas who went to Amerika to build a good life and a future.I had commented on another video where they were building Shepherds wagons.I so much admire your videoing and how great it is to see and watch it grow in popularity. May you continue to give us your viewers more joy of different places and countries to experience.Not all of the folks can Go overseas to see beautiful places. So, if I may say, Keep on going with success into the future and keep people having more joy with your good videos. God bless.Oh, i wondered if this Gentleman can still speakc the Basque Language of his Father or his Family?
when I started this video, I thought 25 minutes! I'll just skip thru if I get bored. Well, I didn't get bored at all. what a great video, thank you for sharing! I am so glad I subscribed to your channel. It''s funny, I felt that the thought that living tiny was a new concept, but it isn't and it hasn't been since the modernization of man. We just forget what is important and put all of our energy into what is not. live smarter, not harder!
Imagine what a couple of solar panels would do for the lifestyle. This is a really good video. I have enjoyed all of your videos Kirsten, but this is my favorite.
I love that this isn't some yuppie dude explaining to us how he is connecting with nature in order to refine his art as he lives off of a trust fund (not that there is anything wrong with that). It's just nice to see that people live this way because they need to, because there is a utility to it and not because they have some sort of statement to make.
this reminds me of my early years when i just started school my little village that had about 30 families my grandfather was a shepherd n he used to live few miles off the village looking after his flock goats n sheep n used to come to the village when it was time to milk the animals to make the Best yogurt I ever had on earth n cheese, but he just couldn't wait to get back to the mountains his little stone build room n a fenced yard for his animals, many times he said to me there are too many people in the village n they talk about each other behind their backs he just loved the solitude of the mountains even my granny was not happy with him any times, sometimes i think if he could come back today in a big city he will go mad i never remember him getting angry once
@@Monuments_to_Good_Intentions now in my old age i wished I lived the same as my grandfather did but who does when u know its so much to explore in this world at the end of the day though i know his life was so much cleaner pure honest compared to mine am at least a 1000 times sinner next to him he married my grandmother when she was 14 n non of them would even imagine ever touching anyone else my parents father was a bit of a womanizer b4 he got married sadly generation after generation we are ALL getting corrupted more n more we are also loosing respect for each other too sad But who can resist it even angels sinned for having women
Kirsten, your little productions are getting better and better. I really appreciate this one, because people just don't have a clue what it takes to eek out a way of life in some of our wilderness, and that there are many jobs the normal rank and file just would not do. I live in what I call my cave, living space build inside of a huge steel pole building. I'm hoping to build a tiny cabin here, and use this for a warm winter shop. I'm completely off grid, use a cell booster antennae, have solar, soon to get up a wind device I had built locally. People just don't realize the amount of work it takes to do things, the nearest real hardware store being 32 miles away, which is really good compared to what others do. Take care, and keep up the good work!
During a long distance off road motorcycle trip ,I saw a couple of those covered wagons deep in the remote backcountry of Idaho. Didn't know the full story until seeing this.
I have been to Spain and Portugal and Portugal has the most friendly people I know. I also lived in Idaho and met Basque people. Just recently my uncle Bill passed away was from Portugal he was 93. He was such a wonderful man. We just called him uncle Bill. The Portuguese are very hard-working people. Uncle Bill was so handy he built a cabin in the mountains so he could retire there with his wife my aunt. Are used to go up before my aunt passed away and just enjoy the countryside of stonyford California. It is a very small community with a lot of poor people they only have one corner market and one restaurant combination bar there. We usually just brought our food with us and barbecue outside on about 4 foot high barbecue pit that my uncle Bill made and I've never seen one like it. I'd love to have one made in my backyard just like uncle Bill's. you can actually put a barstool around it and stay warm. I brought my cast-iron Lodge skillet and made biscuits over the coals. They turned out wonderful. Makes me homesick for the countryside. I was young when I lived in Idaho and I did not appreciate the farmland much as I would now!!
I am 26 years old and I would love to be this man right hand I grew up in countryside of puerto rico play with my grandfather cheap cows and horses my parents decided to leave that all behind to Pursuit a better future for us and we came to United States when I was six years old but honestly I miss the countryside I hate every single moment of living in the city I cannot wait until finally graduate from college and go back but I would love to be this man's right hand men guess what I saw in the video that is extremely beautiful and he's right if you cannot appreciate that you are a lost case
We don’t need depressions to make people not be spoiled.....we need people to hold their kids accountable for their actions, make them do chores, and not give them everything g they want ....... the children became spoiled because the parents spoiled them. You can make things better for your children without spoiling them.
I worked for a school district some years ago and the company Service Master came in as contract supervision my new boos was a Bask person,ma very good man and Genuine man.
There were many local productive and creative cultures that have been lost for lack of valuing them in time. I worked as an assistant to an anthropologist. One of the cures that some breast cancers respond to was no more than a traditional medicine anecdote that a pharmacology student researched. How many more solutions to problems are lost when culture and language is lost...
I have had to keep dealing with spoiled ass relatives. They are the ones who won't shut up about everyone else's business and spread defamatory rumors. On the other hand, s few of my family had been raised with all that privilege but learned you still had to act like a civil human being. S few of those same people were savvy enough to suck it up during wartime. On the other hand I have some X friends who still acted like the rest of us in general were biological ATMs and on-call servants. Decency and Stewardship and Golden Rule. That's the difference between Gentleperson vs Snowflake.
Wow, years ago, back in 1973-74 my husband worked for a Basque Sheep Rancher in Eastern Washington. After a training period, we were put out in the middle of nowhere with several sheep and a sheepherders wagon. We were newly married and it was like camping. Thanks for the memories.
I granch in Caribou county. Please
I had a problem with my texting I meant I grew up on a sheep ranch in Caribou county. The Life is just that way,. Our herder was called Frank he had been here for years and spoke good english. He returned to Spain with enough saving to buy his own sheep , We got a Christmas card from him every year until he passed on.
My grandfather on dad's side herded sheep out of Lander, Wyoming. He had is own sheepherders wagon & 2 horses. In later years he took the wagon wheels off & put it on a truck. Did sheep herding & was a hunting guide for hunters from all over the country.
your work is so important Kirsten. thank you for doing what you do and sharing it with us!
Thanks for posting this video as it has made me learn more about my culture. As any basque person can see by name that I carry the basque name from my grandfather. I am very proud of my grandfathers name from the old country. I like to let others know that the basque do not speak Spanish as many think. They speak their own language that is so old they have no record of it's origins. It is one of the most unique cultures of Europe.
Superbe et émouvant qu'une certaine partie de la culture Basque continue à vivre là-bas !
So much Grand and beautiful scenery there are.My mouth is agape.
I love the way you did this video Kirsten. The Basque culture intercut with the sheep herding that built that very culture. I've watched your channel grow from just a few hundred subscribers to nearly half a million! I love being transported to different places through your lens and I hope to do this very kind if travel and documenting of buildings, places, people, culture and more. Thank you so much for another incredible video helping my sick disabled self dream of the future and forget another painful day. I live in an old 1976 rv in a commercial storage unit/garage where I used to have my business before falling ill so I have a lot in common with the incredible people you show and feel real kinship that I'm not all alone. Thanks again your channel means a lot to me.
Mountain men
Holy shit...that's Henry! He is a live wire kinda guy & easy to be around as you no doubt found Kirsten. As an immigrant I too fell in love with this area in the late 90's & built a home & a business in the mountains north of Lava & got to know Henry by rescuing his water tankers from the high country. When you get off the pavement here it's wide open country like it's always been.
All prophets worked as a shepherd, this job teaches how to be humble and patient. Thanks for the video.
Great story, interesting people, beautiful scenery, fascinating history and a bittersweet ending. Nicely done
Kirsten, we'd never be able to see these things if not for your work! Mucho gracious, mi amigo. We've been to Barcelona area for work many times. Oh me, got so sick of paella! Paella, paella, paella, everywhere. That and tapas. Hey y'all, let's go eat Spanish food! Said nobody. Wha' we gonna do for wool and lamb meat when y'all herder boys are gone? We need people doing that important work. Si, asta la vista mi amigo.
What a wonderful gentleman. I would happily work in his sheep camps. I enjoy staying out with my sheep and looking after them. Animals raised like this are so much better for earth, the sheep, and the people who eat and utilize them. Much love ❤️ 🙏
Well done. We have a large Basque population in Bakersfield Ca. Loved to eat family style at their resturants.
I need to get ahold of this guy for a job. To learn a few things. Seems like the life for me.
A wonderful documentary on a little-known aspect of our American heritage. Many thanks for the effort and artistry you put into this.
I am fascinated to learn about my heritage and ancestors, thank you!
Oh, my God Kirsten. You can Speak Español.How wonderful and Ye gods, from afar am I proud of you.And I speak Hungarian and can read Spanish a fair bit. Jolly good it is to know more than English.DO trust in God that the way of life will not Die out after t his Lovely Gent passes from our Earth.
love your video well done thank you so much for sharing I enjoyed it very much
Beautiful video! Loved the man's spirit.
True ... i was Raised by a sheep herder. Dominique taught me a lot~
I loved this story ...one of your BEST!!!!! Your channel is amazing! #longtime fan
THE DOCUMENTARIES ARE REMARKABBLE, THE PEOPLE, THE LAND THE STORIES. I AM ALWAYS HUMBLED WHEN I SEE A STORY LIKE THIS. I TOO AM IN IDAHO WAITING TO BUILD MY HOUSE LIVING IN MY TRUCK.
that is such beautiful bush country , and i agree when he says at 16:30 into the video , that if you cant appreciate this , something is wrong with your head ,,
Very nice video! Thank You very much!
Very cool video, we recently picked up a sheep wagon so it was fun to see a working one. I grew up on a cow outfit but my dad and Grandpa talked about sheep and sheep wagons all the time. I hope Etcheverry is able to find a passionate young person to take over his place.
Very good... So just good history has been lost... Thank you for capturing this glimpse...
as a basque american myself i feel like its my duty to be part of our shepherding culture
I hope we all start living a bit more simply.. thank you for this lovely look into this simple lifestyle.
Thank you Kirsten, yet another amazing video. I really enjoy your sensitive storytelling
Love the Basque culture! Thankfully, there are still many Basque families living/working/thriving in Northern Nevada.
It's pretty awesome to see the shepherds moving their flocks twice a year. They move their flocks right down our street as if we weren't even here. It's pretty surreal...like two mismatched timelines briefly converging. It's nothing short of miraculous to watch these shepherds move HUNDREDS of sheep over mountains, across major highways, through new housing subdivisions...usually with nothing more than a couple of well-trained dogs. Most shepherds that I've seen don't even ride horses, they just walk alongside the sheep, give an occasional whistle, and that's about it. How they keep them all together, I'll never know.
I'll be very sad when we no longer see them moving across land. And Basque people from the Pyrenees are awesome...such a unique heritage that they should all be rightfully proud of!
This channel finally crossed half million mark. Cheeeeeeeeers!
basquooooo! american west history! picon punch, great drink from the basque people.. happy trails...
thankyou its so nice to be able to learn in this way ,good honest journalism I love the way you did this video Kirsten. The Basque culture intercut with the sheep herding that built that very culture
Absolutely fantastic, informative video. I've always been fascinated by stateless nations, and this was a great peek at a historic ethnic enclave I was unaware of.
very wonderful coverage of a beautiful time in American history. I love how you've given great insight into the "sheppard's hut" and shown it's practical and original use, not simply showing some urbanite using it as a studio.
I had watched this video previously dear Kirsten. It is amazing and so awesome to see people from overseas who went to Amerika to build a good life and a future.I had commented on another video where they were building Shepherds wagons.I so much admire your videoing and how great it is to see and watch it grow in popularity. May you continue to give us your viewers more joy of different places and countries to experience.Not all of the folks can Go overseas to see beautiful places. So, if I may say, Keep on going with success into the future and keep people having more joy with your good videos. God bless.Oh, i wondered if this Gentleman can still speakc the Basque Language of his Father or his Family?
I've never been to Idaho ... thanks for the tour. Now, I want to go explore.
Muy buen reportaje me dio gusto que el señor hablará español Bonito estado. Saludes y gracias
Wow. One of your best. Thank you for making this.
when I started this video, I thought 25 minutes! I'll just skip thru if I get bored. Well, I didn't get bored at all. what a great video, thank you for sharing! I am so glad I subscribed to your channel. It''s funny, I felt that the thought that living tiny was a new concept, but it isn't and it hasn't been since the modernization of man. We just forget what is important and put all of our energy into what is not. live smarter, not harder!
EK Unknown i didnt like the random fast cuts. Made me dizzy.
Thank you Kirsten, a very interesting video (again;)
Happy New Year to you and your family. If youre in Europe please keep your kids safe!
You should keep your kids safe everywhere
Imagine what a couple of solar panels would do for the lifestyle. This is a really good video. I have enjoyed all of your videos Kirsten, but this is my favorite.
Being from France, I had no idea the Basques went to far in land. I heard they came in North America and that is about it. Very good "reportage"
I love that this isn't some yuppie dude explaining to us how he is connecting with nature in order to refine his art as he lives off of a trust fund (not that there is anything wrong with that). It's just nice to see that people live this way because they need to, because there is a utility to it and not because they have some sort of statement to make.
Nicely stated.
Then again...it is the tax payer's land.
this reminds me of my early years when i just started school my little village that had about 30 families my grandfather was a shepherd n he used to live few miles off the village looking after his flock goats n sheep n used to come to the village when it was time to milk the animals to make the Best yogurt I ever had on earth n cheese, but he just couldn't wait to get back to the mountains his little stone build room n a fenced yard for his animals, many times he said to me there are too many people in the village n they talk about each other behind their backs he just loved the solitude of the mountains even my granny was not happy with him any times, sometimes i think if he could come back today in a big city he will go mad i never remember him getting angry once
polygamous1 Sozou thats awesome man.
@@Monuments_to_Good_Intentions now in my old age i wished I lived the same as my grandfather did but who does when u know its so much to explore in this world at the end of the day though i know his life was so much cleaner pure honest compared to mine am at least a 1000 times sinner next to him he married my grandmother when she was 14 n non of them would even imagine ever touching anyone else my parents father was a bit of a womanizer b4 he got married sadly generation after generation we are ALL getting corrupted more n more we are also loosing respect for each other too sad But who can resist it even angels sinned for having women
Love Jordan Valley! Great place for deer and elk hunting.
fascinating!
looks like there's plenty of Land out there.
thank you.
best video I have seen in a long time. Thank you.
Miss those Aspen trees..I am from Colorado..now in Arizona.
Hello faircompanies, and thanks for posting.
Kirsten, your little productions are getting better and better. I really appreciate this one, because people just don't have a clue what it takes to eek out a way of life in some of our wilderness, and that there are many jobs the normal rank and file just would not do. I live in what I call my cave, living space build inside of a huge steel pole building. I'm hoping to build a tiny cabin here, and use this for a warm winter shop. I'm completely off grid, use a cell booster antennae, have solar, soon to get up a wind device I had built locally. People just don't realize the amount of work it takes to do things, the nearest real hardware store being 32 miles away, which is really good compared to what others do. Take care, and keep up the good work!
i would definitely go work there and never want to leave
Muy bueno. En mi pais, Argentina, hay miles de descendientes de bascos. Sobre todo en el campo. Mis abuelos vinieron desde Galicia. Saludos.
Loving this channel - love, love, love!
The Basque are special people, I learned to respect and admire them in Southern France while surfing. Did their language survive in Idaho?
Super Super interesting! Thanks!
During a long distance off road motorcycle trip ,I saw a couple of those covered wagons deep in the remote backcountry of Idaho. Didn't know the full story until seeing this.
That was a good one, very good!
Excellent - I had no idea anything like this existed 😄
I have been to Spain and Portugal and Portugal has the most friendly people I know. I also lived in Idaho and met Basque people. Just recently my uncle Bill passed away was from Portugal he was 93. He was such a wonderful man. We just called him uncle Bill. The Portuguese are very hard-working people. Uncle Bill was so handy he built a cabin in the mountains so he could retire there with his wife my aunt. Are used to go up before my aunt passed away and just enjoy the countryside of stonyford California. It is a very small community with a lot of poor people they only have one corner market and one restaurant combination bar there. We usually just brought our food with us and barbecue outside on about 4 foot high barbecue pit that my uncle Bill made and I've never seen one like it. I'd love to have one made in my backyard just like uncle Bill's. you can actually put a barstool around it and stay warm. I brought my cast-iron Lodge skillet and made biscuits over the coals. They turned out wonderful. Makes me homesick for the countryside. I was young when I lived in Idaho and I did not appreciate the farmland much as I would now!!
Bill is not a Portuguese name.
Chauvinist Little Piggy: what the hell does that have to do with what she stated?
But what does it have to do with the theme of this video?
Fabulous video - thanks so much!
This would be my perfect job living tiny and working in gods country and loving every minute of it
That was so interesting!! Thank you!!
Very nice. Thanks for sharing.
Very interesting vid!!! Thank you Kirsten!
BEAUTIFUL !!!
A fascinating 25 minutes.
Me and my family would gladly learn the trade and continue the tradition
I am 26 years old and I would love to be this man right hand I grew up in countryside of puerto rico play with my grandfather cheap cows and horses my parents decided to leave that all behind to Pursuit a better future for us and we came to United States when I was six years old but honestly I miss the countryside I hate every single moment of living in the city I cannot wait until finally graduate from college and go back but I would love to be this man's right hand men guess what I saw in the video that is extremely beautiful and he's right if you cannot appreciate that you are a lost case
Thanks for this very interesting story.
Fantastic documentary!
We don’t need depressions to make people not be spoiled.....we need people to hold their kids accountable for their actions, make them do chores, and not give them everything g they want ....... the children became spoiled because the parents spoiled them.
You can make things better for your children without spoiling them.
These are my people!!! Idaho born and bread.
I worked for a school district some years ago and the company Service Master came in as contract supervision my new boos was a Bask person,ma very good man and Genuine man.
Haaha this is nuts... thanks for the video. I want to build one of these wagons.
Love your films, so interesting!
I used to play Handball in Ireland with my Dad which is a common sport.
this isn't handball, thats a different thing
much enjoyed the video
I live in a big house, have all the amenities... why am I unhappy?
Living like this is what my soul desires. I am so jealous.
Excellent!
You know, there are solar panel and battery units that could run a small fridge, and a radio in the evenings. Very nice little units.
Beautiful!
WOW. Great video ! 8-)
a famous social entrepreneur basque of recent times is father arizmendiarrieta, from spain. thank you.
There were many local productive and creative cultures that have been lost for lack of valuing them in time. I worked as an assistant to an anthropologist. One of the cures that some breast cancers respond to was no more than a traditional medicine anecdote that a pharmacology student researched. How many more solutions to problems are lost when culture and language is lost...
Very cool video! Love the history!
so informative! 👍🐧
Wow, this is so interesting! Thank you 😊
God bless great spot
一直很喜欢小房子 支持👍👍👍
Great video, Thanks
very interesting video
My grandfather imigarted from Scotland to herd sheep in Wyoming!
truth in what his papa said about { this country needs a depression every 10 yrs. to keep everybody in check}.. great vid. ... happy trails...
I have had to keep dealing with spoiled ass relatives. They are the ones who won't shut up about everyone else's business and spread defamatory rumors. On the other hand, s few of my family had been raised with all that privilege but learned you still had to act like a civil human being. S few of those same people were savvy enough to suck it up during wartime.
On the other hand I have some X friends who still acted like the rest of us in general were biological ATMs and on-call servants. Decency and Stewardship and Golden Rule. That's the difference between Gentleperson vs Snowflake.
Nice😊
That was interesting for sure.
Great story,
Gorgeous place , My idea of heaven on earth 😁
Very interesting
Argentina. Biggest population of Basque Descendants outside of Mexico, Colombia, Spain and France.