96 10 9760 https://caspercollege.cvlcollections.org/files/original/7c40971ce97d48b4e91c63ca0328bec7.jpg 3f76898d6a3a549f7cf99ef8cf1d8bb6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource David R. Sutherland Navy Letters Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/</a> Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1945 - 1946 Description An account of the resource This collection contains letters David R. Sutherland sent to his family while in the United States Navy and at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania between 1945 and 1946, and photographs of David, his family, and friends. David R. Sutherland, according to the obituary published in the Casper Star-Tribune in 2013, was born in Greybull, Wyoming, in 1927 to L.D. "Si" and Clara Lewis Sutherland. He served in the Navy during WWII, was in the first graduating class of Casper College, and went on to attend Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania before graduating from Denver University. Upon returning to Wyoming, he married Joan Hurd in 1954 and opened an accounting firm in Casper. He was the founder and president of Data Processors, Inc., and was heavily involved in several local Casper organizations throughout his life. Type The nature or genre of the resource Image and Text Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource David R. Sutherland Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. David R. Sutherland Navy Letters, NCA 01.v.1996.02 WyCaC US. Casper College Archives and Special Collections. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context NCA 01.v.1996.02 WyCaC US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF, JPG Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Casper College Archives and Special Collections (Western History Center) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The finding aid for these and other items in this collection is available for viewing: <a href="https://caspercollegearchives.libraryhost.com/repositories/2/resources/160" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://caspercollegearchives.libraryhost.com/repositories/2/resources/160</a> Relation A related resource <a href="https://caspercollege.cvlcollections.org/collections/show/63" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://caspercollege.cvlcollections.org/collections/show/63</a> Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Photographic print Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Description An account of the resource Photograph of one of David Sutherland's peers at school, Bill Glaskow, seated at a desk in Navy uniform. This photograph belongs to a collection of letters David R. Sutherland sent to his family while in the United States Navy and at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania between 1945 and 1946, and photographs of David, his family, and friends. David R. Sutherland, according to the obituary published in the Casper Star-Tribune in 2013, was born in Greybull, Wyoming, in 1927 to L.D. "Si" and Clara Lewis Sutherland. He served in the Navy during WWII, was in the first graduating class of Casper College, and went on to attend Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania before graduating from Denver University. Upon returning to Wyoming, he married Joan Hurd in 1954 and opened an accounting firm in Casper. He was the founder and president of Data Processors, Inc., and was heavily involved in several local Casper organizations throughout his life. Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource David R. Sutherland Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. David R. Sutherland Navy Letters, NCA 01.v.1996.02 WyCaC US. Casper College Archives and Special Collections. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context NCA 01.v.1996.02_Bill Glaskow Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource JPG Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Casper College Archives and Special Collections (Western History Center) Relation A related resource <a href="https://caspercollege.cvlcollections.org/collections/show/63" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://caspercollege.cvlcollections.org/collections/show/63</a> Title A name given to the resource Bill Glaskow Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/</a> Date Created Date of creation of the resource. Undated https://caspercollege.cvlcollections.org/files/original/03b460d38dc4f3eb73e7c9a372e0a74b.pdf 95763fbde05a61c00e61c5b68a33d057 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Casper Star-Tribune Vertical Files Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/</a> Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1967 - 1995 Description An account of the resource The Casper Star-Tribune Vertical File consists of a series of file folders arranged by people, places, and events. These files at times have a corresponding file of photographs and negatives created and used by the Casper Star Tribune from 1967 until the middle of 1995 according to a newspaper article on the donation from February of 2000. In the words of Special Collections Curator at the time, Kevin Anderson, the overall Casper Star-Tribune Collection, of which these vertical files are a part, serves to document "events in our own lives, events in our own history." Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Casper Star-Tribune Access Rights Information about who can access the resource or an indication of its security status. Access Rights may include information regarding access or restrictions based on privacy, security, or other policies. Archivists are happy to assist anyone with accessing the physical or electronic copies of the files. The Casper College Goodstein Foundation Library is glad to grant uses of this material that it actively manages and cares for and will provide its publication policy upon request. Provenance A statement of any changes in ownership and custody of the resource since its creation that are significant for its authenticity, integrity, and interpretation. The statement may include a description of any changes successive custodians made to the resource. The Casper Star-Tribune gifted 20 years of photographic negatives and prints and many of these corresponding files and article scans to Casper College early in the year 2000. The vertical files have been managed by the Casper College Archives and Special Collections housed in its Western History Center. The repository started the process of arranging and describing these files at the series level in January of 2024. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context NCA 01.ii.2000.02-Alt_CasperStar-TribuneVerticalFiles Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Newspaper article Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Irish Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Irving Garbutt Language A language of the resource ENG Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Casper Star Tribune Western Vertical File and Morgue Files, NCA 01.ii.2000.02 WyCaC US. Casper College Archives and Special Collections. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context NCA 01.ii.2000.01_IrvingGarbutt_TheIrish Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF https://caspercollege.cvlcollections.org/files/original/64f850de5cc5c00505093ba7308df0c4.pdf 9ec60a3b2aaddc2dbb9ace6d52779b28 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Casper Star-Tribune Vertical Files Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/</a> Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1967 - 1995 Description An account of the resource The Casper Star-Tribune Vertical File consists of a series of file folders arranged by people, places, and events. These files at times have a corresponding file of photographs and negatives created and used by the Casper Star Tribune from 1967 until the middle of 1995 according to a newspaper article on the donation from February of 2000. In the words of Special Collections Curator at the time, Kevin Anderson, the overall Casper Star-Tribune Collection, of which these vertical files are a part, serves to document "events in our own lives, events in our own history." Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Casper Star-Tribune Access Rights Information about who can access the resource or an indication of its security status. Access Rights may include information regarding access or restrictions based on privacy, security, or other policies. Archivists are happy to assist anyone with accessing the physical or electronic copies of the files. The Casper College Goodstein Foundation Library is glad to grant uses of this material that it actively manages and cares for and will provide its publication policy upon request. Provenance A statement of any changes in ownership and custody of the resource since its creation that are significant for its authenticity, integrity, and interpretation. The statement may include a description of any changes successive custodians made to the resource. The Casper Star-Tribune gifted 20 years of photographic negatives and prints and many of these corresponding files and article scans to Casper College early in the year 2000. The vertical files have been managed by the Casper College Archives and Special Collections housed in its Western History Center. The repository started the process of arranging and describing these files at the series level in January of 2024. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context NCA 01.ii.2000.02-Alt_CasperStar-TribuneVerticalFiles Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Newspaper article Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Irish: Their Roots are Deep in Wyoming Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/</a> Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1964-03-15 Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Philip J. McAuley Language A language of the resource ENG Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Casper Star Tribune Western Vertical File and Morgue Files, NCA 01.ii.2000.02 WyCaC US. Casper College Archives and Special Collections. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context NCA 01.ii.2000.01_PhilipMcAuley_TheIrish Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource JPG https://caspercollege.cvlcollections.org/files/original/4db409eda27f0a1e1001f0999143b29e.jpg 3fa87d1293f0bd9e6792fb53c382d16b Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Image Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Clouds over CPR Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Casper Star-Tribune Photographs, NCA 01.ii.2000.01 PS WyCaC US. Casper College Archives and Special Collections. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context NCA 01.ii.2000.01_PlP_CasperMountain_08 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource JPG https://caspercollege.cvlcollections.org/files/original/2f416445085534f84872701f99df1d31.jpg 8790bf69bb112861ae46decef78784b7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Casper Star-Tribune Photographs Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/</a> Description An account of the resource The photograph record group that was gifted to Casper College consists of photographs and negatives created and/or used by the Casper Star Tribune from 1967 until the middle of 1995 according to a newspaper article on the donation from February of 2000. In the words of Special Collections Curator, Kevin Anderson, the photographs in this collection serve to document "events in our own lives, events in our own history." There were 19,000 envelopes that were gifted to the repository, which totaled between 330,000 and 460,000 images. Images in this collection may support the use of other collections in the repository or vice versa. Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Welcome if you don't eat here we'll both starve Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/</a> Access Rights Information about who can access the resource or an indication of its security status. Access Rights may include information regarding access or restrictions based on privacy, security, or other policies. Archivists are happy to assist anyone with accessing the physical or electronic copies of the files. The Casper College Goodstein Foundation Library is glad to grant uses of this material that it actively manages and cares for and will provide its publication policy upon request. Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 2/4/1987 Description An account of the resource Sign of Herbos Restaurant. This photograph is part of a collection that consists of photographs and negatives created and/or used by the Casper Star Tribune from 1967 until the middle of 1995 according to a newspaper article on the donation from February of 2000. In the words of Special Collections Curator, Kevin Anderson, the photographs in this collection serve to document "events in our own lives, events in our own history." There were 19,000 envelopes that were gifted to the repository, which totaled between 330,000 and 460,000 images. Images in this collection may support the use of other collections in the repository or vice versa. Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rick Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Casper Star-Tribune Photographs, NCA 01.ii.2000.01 Ph WyCaC US. Casper College Archives and Special Collections. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context NCA 01.ii.2000.01_Casper Businesses_02 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource JPEG https://caspercollege.cvlcollections.org/files/original/d37cc0490fe325e91a59d45b570ecd42.jpg 6b8fbbe06f41e50500b0d327728a0fca Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Casper Businesses Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/</a> Access Rights Information about who can access the resource or an indication of its security status. Access Rights may include information regarding access or restrictions based on privacy, security, or other policies. Archivists are happy to assist anyone with accessing the physical or electronic copies of the files. The Casper College Goodstein Foundation Library is glad to grant uses of this material that it actively manages and cares for and will provide its publication policy upon request. Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 4/10/1986 Subject The topic of the resource Empty Yesness Boulevard Dowtown Description An account of the resource This photograph is part of a collection that consists of photographs and negatives created and/or used by the Casper Star Tribune from 1967 until the middle of 1995 according to a newspaper article on the donation from February of 2000. In the words of Special Collections Curator, Kevin Anderson, the photographs in this collection serve to document "events in our own lives, events in our own history." There were 19,000 envelopes that were gifted to the repository, which totaled between 330,000 and 460,000 images. Images in this collection may support the use of other collections in the repository or vice versa. Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rick Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Casper Star-Tribune Photographs, NCA 01.ii.2000.01 Ph WyCaC US. Casper College Archives and Special Collections. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context NCA 01.ii.2000.01_Casper Businesses_08 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource JPEG https://caspercollege.cvlcollections.org/files/original/32c3595f46d4a4be8ecc34bb4c8c1a16.jpg bbc8f4c9b2b14785eaf2413524bf4f07 https://caspercollege.cvlcollections.org/files/original/1e12c5606c07f4ac328b1b53d4e89e37.jpg 7ff2a7799ec093671b8f412d26014d4f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Burtch Family Postcards Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/">http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/</a> Provenance A statement of any changes in ownership and custody of the resource since its creation that are significant for its authenticity, integrity, and interpretation. The statement may include a description of any changes successive custodians made to the resource. Alvin Burtch Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Postcard Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Postcard and text Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/">http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Language A language of the resource ENG Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context NCA 01.v.2005.01_Postcardandtext Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource JPG https://caspercollege.cvlcollections.org/files/original/6daeba3719c77aa1cf3d42d4dd3c3410.pdf a972bb74f8faf0506f69d8cd697b2bbe PDF Text Text - ;Of L-Slleep iind ••• THE cowboy has become a ro- And when the boys came in from and dancing so dear to the Irish Worst of all, the le>ss of sheep : mantic symbol recreated year the range, .six or eight months lat- heart. wouid i ndicate that he had been a after year in fiction, TV programs, er, that same suit hung on their The young herders had frepar�d poor risk whe n his passage mon­ and on the mo vie screen. Occasion- young, tough bodies with a look Ior such occasions. Theu• ·. shirts ey had been paid from Scotland ally he has. gotten i.nto musical and feel of strangeness. had been washed and placed . U!I· to Wyoming. der their 1:ieds for pressing. They e om e d y. · A nostalgic air stirs . UNDER THE BIG SKY While the Irish h<?rder was susamong spectators at rodeos when Accompanied by their war bags had cut their own hair and deal t lained in his loneliness by his re­ the men in chaps and. big hats ap-· and their religion, the boys with as best they could with the prob- Jigion, and the Scotchman by a pear.- While the cowboy has been the remembered sound of Irish lems of personal cleanliness. And ·mixture .of stubbornness and Pres­ JIIOmanticized, and at the s a rn e singing in their ears and the blur- -h-Orrors '!-i f lice had gotten if!lO byterianjsm·,. the Basque herder time stereotyped, the sheepherder ring pictures of Irish landsd1pes · their "sougans," _ they had · s�re�d · was different. Fonda.mentally, the liu remained where he was when in their minds, moved out under a them over ant hills · t o be nd ·Of Basque's fortitude rested on · the he first apJ)eared on �e Wyoming big, indifferent sky onto -a wide the pests. · --� i-n-OOrn pride of his race. \Vhil e ieene in the 1870's. It was no ma- land with the wind always moving BAGPIPES , TOO Basques, like ,most of the Irish, jor ingredient of fiction that sheep over it. And as they moved, perSometimes a Scotchman . ·came were Catholic, •there is a funda­ eame up the trails from Texas haps riding in a buckboar d or along with the bagptpes and. added ment al difference in their basic aJld were moved across Wyoming freight wagon, toward the canvas- his strange, eerie music to 'that o f character, a. difference substanti­ to Oregon and sometimes back f.o roofed wagon that would be home, the concertina. The S�otch herders, ated by s c h o I a r s treating the Wyomin g. The sheepherder did not they were instructed on the unwrit- you ng men too, had much in com- Basque background and personal­ fire the imagination. ten laws or the range : A man mon with the Irish. ·They also had ity. The Irish and the Scotch were But pe rhaps when the sheepherd- never left his sheep. The sheep .come i n search of a better way �r· not innately self-complete, while er is explored by writers of fiction c ame before e,•erything - before 'Jile, some disdaining the ways of the Basques ,by th eir very nature he will stand free of stereotyped health, dreams, or the pursuit of the land ed gent ry in Scotland, were remote, s elf-contained, and illterpretation and m:iy indeed pre- happiness. A m an never tampered some because of economic neces• isolationists from all but their own sent a character of such variety .as with another man's bedroll, and to sity. Like the Irish, many of them race. This was not, as many peo­ to .add new dimensions to western burn a bedroll w as a despicable were in their early teens, and in a pie think, ·due to a sp eech or Jan­ literatur e. Out of his background and violent act that could lead to short time their responsibilities had guage barrier, bul to the nature of a,d b ehavior may arise basic rea- a more violent end. A man was at become thos e of men. As a whole, the Basque pride which is rooted lil ies that provoke the writer to liberty, and indeed welcome, to they were not as uninhibited and in the idea that to be born a feel deeply and. Jook ben eath the enter another man's sheep wagon out-going as the Irish. Thrift con- Basque is to be born a complete :i nd help himSl-Jf to food and she!- cerne-d them more and they were and gurface. superior man. er lock e d. Sheepherders in Wyoming were ter. No wagon was ev not as gregarious, being more in- . .P E ef three cmtstanding t.ypes-Trish, But on entering another m an's wa- clined to k eep their thoughts an d A ROUD PEOPL B sque pr ide has existed over a Scotch, a nd Basque _ Of the three, gon, responsibility must be_ as.- e m o t i o n s to the mselves. They it is the Irish who (jrst int rigue, su med for washing the dishes and looked forwa rd, if possible, to get- centuries in the Basque Provinces the curious. Out of a country torn leaving the wagon as clean as when ting into town and celebrating the in Spai ·n and, fo. southwest France. Possibly desce n ded from Cro-Mag­ by war antl famine, they beg a n enier:'d. birthday of Robert Burns. The Irish man, they antedate ancient. their drift across the ocean toward In the winter the young men of her ders felt fortune smiled on them non lberjan tribe$ nf Spain and their America. Many came to Wyoming. lreland-nwst of the1il a_round �as- if, by some me.ans, they cou1d arThey, cam e young and poor and pet came ,Crom County Cork-lived rive in town on St. Patrick's Day. langu age is. related to n o other. It sometimes with little or no formal with snow, cold, wind and isola- And hap-py was the Irish boy _who was the backbone of the Basque education. for education--even in tion. And always the sheep came entered the town house of a fnend country tha.t fought of! Romafls, . Visiaoths Moors and Franks. Jt religion-was, at tim�s. a hazard- first. Their dogs, so nece� sary to saw, flo ating in a little saucer ·-was "'the Basques �ho threw off the 4>US pursuit. In most in8tances, the b usiness of carin g for sheep, andwater, of a few shamro cks from · overlordship-of Charlemagne. And passage money was sent to the m beca me · substitutes for hunian com- the OId �ount ry, it was al�\?· the Basques who valiby a hardy leader of ,the family panionship. The ITish herd ers lov ed The Irish and Scotch herders · antly resisted Franco until he o who had gotten together enough their dogs, fought with them, v• rH d to th aft e d te saloons er, Jong -r �• threw t h:....;. '-"' 1·n 1937. cash to cros s the Atlantic. The tall,ed -to them, and sometimes :° 0nth5 on the ran�e. Here, glass young of Ireland, en couraged by taught them di�l i;,gu:shing tricks. m hand wh at st0r1es migh-t pass; Most of 'tlie Basques who came· the few first pioneers in the she�p At lea st ,me of these early Irish · her bef�re the to Wyoming worked in the Big business, turned toward a land of herders taught his favorite dog to from ? ne 10 t.he 0t Horn Mountains a.nd Powder Riv• sour light of d a ybreak! It 1s gen. • •ty. Basques f'irst better opportunity. ct• ew tobacco. . v1cm1 er Bas.'n conceded that the . came m numbers to w ork for J. . Irish were Arriving in Wyoming , they were In sum..1er, JJ13ny took the long er:::lly . taken in by relati,, es or frie nds trail to t.he Big Horn Mountains wilder .3nd mor e emotional, but m B. Okie of Lost Cabin. Unlike the were lhose who warmly opened th eir doors to w:1ere th e grass grew t 3 II , the ma " n yh instaDces there • h an d th e s co lc h, th ey d'd 1 oot o· tc. men whO " could s1ay wi•th · 1 r1s c � r . and l c t , i2 y count ," he b t the e re m e o oo w cuuntr-.r n s h o!d t com e to ·make a new way of life in O"S ' fr ' ~ .. h They were in d ebt for passage was even more vast and lonely them." a �cw country; they ca me to acmoney but the futur e · pro mised than that o! winter range. But . Irish a nd Scotch herdersf shared quire morey nd return to. an old a common, r � omantic Jove' or their much. They didn't ha,·e to re main someti mes this lonely existence . ·., country. A .few st11yed, per,�a,ps al· . hired men; they were usu;:illy per- was broken by the company of the ,na ' t1ve . count ne·s but se Idom d1-, lowing business acumen to tak e mitted to allow their wages to ac- opposite sex. Often the owner's t ney �15h .� ._return. t0 st �Y: B 0th precedent over pride in old coun­ c cumulate and buy sheep of ·th eir wife would move up for the su:m- fel_t k ee? allian e to the1r. coun- try soil and old country traditions the ::�t �11.� wei;� ��o m mer, bringing her ow n wagon for t� ;r· m C)wn. but the majority went home. , Boys in tlieir tee n s, torn by living qu.1rters, and she might ,be rie n _Y tow ar _ · ou si ers. · e It is interesting to know th;:it at homesick. ness, went to one of the accompanied, for a brief visit, by a more ,m-agm a hve Scotch men cou�<l the time whe n Mr. Okie. return. , . · · allc . g from a lnp mercanli1e stores an d, on er ed'it !ew young wo men, d aughtcrs • of be counted on to be as dra . m to Spam, brou.,oht m offered by the man who had hired friends. While the young ladies .a nd sent·im�nt al· as ·the I-nsh · back Basque h erders and a Basque A-mong t e a_ccounts of young mii,id for his wife, th ere als came them, bought what every herder were in camp, life became gay. o had to have-a tepee, slicker, bed- This gaiety rea c�ed its finest �x- Scolch her<lers is 'the· st0t Y of Qne to his ranch a Spania rd who spoke boy . of 13. who . knew the terror of· be autiful English as well as Span­ roll, and tobacco. They were in- pression in the "tarp dances.": troduced M the herder's "war At nightfall, the sheep b edded, h�vm,g W!ld rang� horses trample. ish. This man was a graduate of bag"-a large heavy sack of coars- the stars shining, the fires gl-0wiiJg, his sheep.· The ·Y:11d horses . c_rav_etl Oliford University an d later ma.r· er material than a flour sack- someone would start playing th e salt, espe cially m those v1cm1t1 es and in this was put their w ork concertina. A l arge tarpaulin was where I.here was no salt sage, an t.I elothes. The suit of "good clothes" then spread on the rough ground, were a menace to the sheep when they had worn <luring tearful fare - corn ers anch ored with rocks, and the herder put out salt. The same wells on the old country shore and the dancing began-jigs, hornpipes, young he rde-r knew t-he threat of during the long crossing of th e sets and half sets. It was not like coyotes, patroli ng alone on Casper ocean, was left in town, hung in the Irish greens but it brought Mountain, from small fire to fire, the closet of :i friend or relative. hack an the laughing and singini:: in an atte-mpt to protect his sheep. 3 �!uoxttnuen from rage is) ried the Basque girl who attended Xrs. -Okie. He was perhaps one of Wyoming's most formally educated sheepherders, Another 'interesting and factual story of the Basques is that eon- . cerning the herder who saved his money until the accumulation was ssuch that upon his drawing it out, the bank of Newcastle, Wyo., was literally broke. Also out of Newcastle comes the picture of the Basque herders in town for brief respite from the lonely range life . While the Irish and Scotch mingled freely at bars, stores, onstreet corners, the Basques remained aloof. They could stand all -day on a street and look at people. The few articles they bought were purchased with utmost care, ;especially pipes which they smoked only in the .evening in their wagons, after the work was done . .A Basque herder often took a day to decide on the pureb.s e of a pipe . looking the selection over with complete absorption, considering each item with . major interest . The same pattern, With less time involved, accompanied the selection of a comb or a straight-edge razor which fascinated the l1asques . -Photo by Jack Richard STOOD ALOOF The Basque herder was polite Sheep belonging to the Quick brothers of Cody start the onnuol trek to the high country. but not social . lie did not, for the This picture won the Grand Sweepstakes Award of oil pictures of oil classes at the Wyomost part, frequent the saloon . If ming Press Association convention last month in Cheyenne . It con in the Cody Enterprise necessary, he took a little beer . lost summer, he had no desire to mingle his when visiting the parlor of the "ladies of .the night." In this reblood with that of another race . The B.a s q u e was not distin . Purity of blood strain was of great spect only did he scent to find a work . Good enough was n e v e r need to turn aside from his de- enough ; perfection was the ulti- gubsied by impulse or the grand importance to him. Toward his open-hearted gestures of-the Irish. own people, he was more clannish voted and solitary life as a herder . ntate aim . Such a scene, pervaded by the He was, if possible, gore thrifty than the most clannish Irish or B a s q u e aloofness and dignity, than the thriftiest of . the Scotch . Scotch . His life was in many rebackgrounded by the music of a And unlike the Irish abd the Scotch spects as austere and dedicated as that of a monk . And if he did not phonograph, might present a cornhinati~n of social amenities never seek to understand or feel close before described in western ficto those of other races, his narrow way of life with its consumtion . ing pride in self and accomplishThe Basque herder did not need ment was one that commanded reto be indoctrinated in the theme spect and provoked interest and inthat sheep were everything and trigued the imagination . came first . He already believed this, believed it so deeply down These then are the men or the through his bones and his blood. sheep-men who went on to 'beout of his old country heritage, come land owners . politicians, builders of our state. It is well 'to that his work with sheep became at times more an art than a liverecall that some of the Basges lihood . Phenomenal stories are told stayed and have added their old of Basques who could neither read and rich tradition to the life of nor write but carried in their lades Wyamln~" . The flocks of Basque such a vast and detailed conglomsheepmen still [urn eastward With eration o¬ facts and figures as evening toward b^dgrounds in the shadol's of the Biq Horn lifourl- would stagger experts on today's TV quiz programs . Devotion that tains. Any afternoon one might may not have been shown in sowalk into the old hotel in Arminta cial gestures was certainly evident and hear the Irish brogue and the in the Basque's attitudes toward Irish imagination flou-ing freely his sheep . it was a labor of love over the glass. as bright and warm although the goal was practicalas it was in the early range flays . money to return to the Basque ProAny morning on (lie prairie one vinces and live in the grandeur to might come upon the Scotchman, which he felt himself innately desheading his truck toward Ponder tined. River or Shoshoni . Relationships between B a s q u e Over these men of Wyoming, the herders and their employers who sky that once held only the shapes were not Basque were marked by of hawks and stars is now lighted loyalty, service, and a dignity that with beacons and etched by trails has not been equalled . Even as of jets . In such men and those pride dominated the Basque herdwho preceded them are more storWESTU04 er's conception of self, so it also ies of the vagaries of the human ROOK . dominated his attitude toward his heart than can possibly be written. L � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Casper Star-Tribune Vertical Files Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/</a> Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1967 - 1995 Description An account of the resource The Casper Star-Tribune Vertical File consists of a series of file folders arranged by people, places, and events. 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