the c-span cities tour travels the country exploring the american story since 2011. we've been to more than 200 communities across the nation like many americans our staff is staying close to home due to the coronavirus. next a look at one of our city's tour visits. on gatorade escalator centura a usual libert welcome to the center for vasquez studies and the vasque library. the center was created in 1967. it is now 52 years old and it was great here because originally it was part of the desert institute in order to study immigration to the desert after that slowly it progressed until what we have today a center for vice custer studies. which main goal is to study bus the bus culture in america in the us specifically in nevada

and in other states of the union most of us people are located in american west from wyoming to idaho, colorado, new mexico, arizona, nevada and california, the bus country is located in the corner the bay of this game. in the border between the mainland europe and the iberian peninsul more or less 80% of the country is southern of the pyrenees. 20% of the country is north of the pyrenees so we are just let's say in the south of england so the bay of disguise between the basque country and and england we know that more or less 60,000 people in the us called themselves basque. this is based in sensors data at the same time. we know that there is a larger

population of basque descendants, and we know that also because they are more basques that participate in basque events or bus clubs that the numbers in the censors. the largest community in the us is in in the san francisco area. the second largest one is in boise, idaho, and we are in the third largest area of past population. and nevada has what is called a bus capital of nevada, which is elko in northeast, nevada. and then here we have also a very strong community of bass that is organized around around the the bus club here. one of the most interesting parts of our bus collection is the photograph collection we host around 25,000 items in that collection. covering all kind of activities

of bus people both here in the diaspora and in the old country of those 25,000 around 5,000 are now available online in our digital collections. so anyone can reach them and take a look to those. here we have a selection that covers some of the activities or actions or that are more related to basques in the west. first bus arrive into the west where the tube brothers so we have here two pictures of bernardo and pedro altuve which were the first basque arriving to the west through argentina first groups of basques were closely connected to ship herding. so ship herring was the main

activity for a long time for basques in the west even the last bus arrived during the 670s and were brought here here to work as shiphers. so we have here some picture related to that activity, which those large flocks in the in the sierra nevada with the ship her and taking care of the sheep with the help of the dark bus ship her dogs are quite famous in the area. flocks in the device country has matches smaller, but the landscape is more complicated for for cheap. the they aren't so open landscape landscapes. there is more mountainous than here. so ship need help from from those ambassadship has brought those shipping dogs with then to

the to the west continuing talking about activities related to ship herding and in the late 1980s group of people here in in reno and decided that it was important to keep the memory alive. the memory of chip hurt in alive. it was an activity that was disappearing for tasks as we say earlier. 1970 so the arrival of last ship herders the west so this port here in reno decided to to create bill a national monument to the past ship further. one of the first businesses outside ship herpine for bus was managing boarding houses and bus hotels. this hotels were the place were newcomers were will arrive will

have the first contact with a new society around them will provide an all kind of services. obviously, they will provide bad and breakfast and food general. but then they will provide services like writing letters in english. all kind of paper was the need to do open in a bank account and they like that they weren't able to do when they first arrive boarding houses in reno and in general in the west were near the railway and the station why because they there was the place there newcomers were arriving. so the work there trying to attract new commerce to their place. usually they new where they were arriving that we went to this place with someone or they will they were going to add this morning house and but they were

near the railways for companies both of our owners and newcomers. another well-known bus activity in the west are busk festivals every year around summer tense and tens of places will host a bus festival organized by the local bus club. here in reno we have the saspiac back bus club suspect but means 7 r1 and it's in relation to the number of bus regions. we are 7 regions in the country. and so this is a call to unity suspect path 7 r 1 less b together and it's a unusual name for bus clubs another kind of organizations. so there's a spear but bus club organizes the the bus festival here in reno every july and this here is one of the items from

our for our poster collection. and it's for the bus reno bus festival in 1989. we hosted around 5,000 bus posters both from the bus countries itself and from the diaspora. bus sports and are another component of basque culture. ah, most of the sports involves country are related to work in farms. so are what are called strong sports and strong related strength related sports at the year others that are related to leisure and the most well known of this is basque pelota or escalatas we call it. we have some knights in our collection that are related to

to that those sports and bus pelota was very well known in the us because a lot of from tones or pelota cars were built inside casinos in in the us and so bus filipunta, which is one of the types of a lot of became a sport for betting and were part of the offer of casinos all around the country including here in reno and this one here. it's a testa. of testapunta the kind that was played here in the front tones in in the casinos for betting with this kind of very hard pelotas, so they were even dangerous because this pelotas were traveling at more or less

180 miles per hour. and that is one of the of the fastest sports in the world. so they need to use helmets and the light to be to be secure. the center for process studies is important because it's the main research. facility about basque culture and history in english all around the world. so we receive people from europe from the americas from asia that is interest in learning about bus. as such library provides the support. for doing that research with our cable collection with our photograph collection with our poster collections and providing access to the main collections of the urinal libraries.

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