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Show 188 Utah Historical Quarterly Basques, however, never gained a strong foothold in Utah's sheep industry because of the willingness of Mormon sheepmen and their sons to continue herding."0 Carbon County contained both French Basques and Vizcayan populations, with Price housing a Basque hotel and boarding house.21 Post-World War I suspicion of foreign and alien groups provided impetus for formal "Americanization" efforts. In Carbon County immi'" Douglass and Bilbao, Amerikanuak, p. 245. T h e authors state on p. 320, "Only in some Mormon outfits of U t a h does the Anglo sheepherder appear with any regularity." 21 Ibid., pp. 4 3 1 , 433. |
