The wide gravel parking lot just north of Centro Basco, one of the oldest continuously operating Basque restaurants in California, is about the only enduring reminder of what this once-rural area ...

The California gold rush brought the first Basque immigrants to the United States in the 1840s. After the gold dried up, many of their descendants stayed in the Central Valley region, turning to the ...

But what Idaho Basques lack in raw numbers, they more than make up in concentration, visibility and distinctiveness. Basques began arriving here more than a century ago, flourishing as they integrated ...