Santiago Zabalbeascoa
Summer 1970
Interviewed by William A. Douglass
Aulestia, Bizkaia
Side 1: Cassette tape, Sunset brand C-60
Conducted in Spanish after about 010
002 1920 – date of immigration
003 Idaho
010 Bilbao
020 7 sisters, no brothers
022 Argentina
025 3 sisters in Argentina
031 North America
032 acquaintances in North America
036 could make more money in North America and return to Basque Country
041 after 7 years returned
043 returned to America for 3 more years, went back to Euskal Herria got married and stayed for 20 years, then went back to America again.
046 3rd trip in 1951
047 another trip in 1960
048 5th trip in 1962
051 was happy in America, but returned because of family
053 1964 last trip
059 sheep
060 construction, road construction
062 Idaho
067 Boise, Mountain Home
069 Agapito Bideganeta
074 Mountain Home
075 Cascade
076 Bennett
079 the hotel keeper found him work with Bennett
082 10 years in Mountain Home
085 left Bennett to return to the Basque Country
096 didn’t like being with sheep all the time – started construction work
103 construction
107 Cascade
108 1960 his son in Cascade
118 knew the construction foreman
123 union
129 didn’t want son to work with sheep
130 patience
133 4 sons
135 1958; another son in America
138 son herded for one year
147 sheep; sheepherding healthy
151 loneliness didn’t bother him
156 companionship with animals
166 food, provisions
168 burro
173 Nevada
174 Idaho
175 sheep wagon
177 tent
185 pack team
190 radio
191 correspondence
195 summer; difficult to go to town
202 reading material
209 Basques and reading
219 didn’t read English publications
224 didn’t read in Spanish
229 books in Basque
232 Aulestia newspaper
245 Argentina
249 Alicante, Almeria
255 winter vacation
266 Soria
271 Costa Blanca
285 UNR
288 summer
292 Basque Studies Program
295 Miren Rementeria
302 the old guys know each other
304 Pocatello
305 Echevarria – priest
312 END