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Arborglyphs: Basque Immigrant Sheepherders Left Their Marks on Aspen Trees in the American West
The Conversation (2024)
  • John Bieter, Boise State University
  • Cheryl Oestreicher, Boise State University
  • Iñaki Arrieta Baro, University of Nevada, Reno
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Abstract
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 who etched these arborglyphs into the living trees were Basques who, starting with the Gold Rush of the 1840s, had immigrated from the Basque Country that straddles the Pyrenees Mountains.
Keywords
  • Basque Country,
  • 3D modeling,
  • herding,
  • Sierra Nevada,
  • photogrammetry,
  • herders
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Publication Date
June 20, 2024
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John Bieter, Cheryl Oestreicher and Iñaki Arrieta Baro. "Arborglyphs: Basque Immigrant Sheepherders Left Their Marks on Aspen Trees in the American West" The Conversation (2024)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/john_bieter/28/
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