The last shepherd
By: by Martin Etchart
Series: West word fiction
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Reno
Language: eng; baq
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9780874178869; 9780874178876
Subjects: Family secrets; Life change events; Sheep ranches; Basques; Fiction; Inheritance and succession; Basque Americans; Young men
Description: "Mathieu Etchiberri wants nothing more than to leave his family's Arizona sheep ranch and go to college, but his father insists that he take over the ranch instead. Then his father is killed in an accident, and Matt discovers that he is not the heir to the ranch. So he travels to the French Pyrenees from which his father and grandparents came to settle the questions about his legacy. Instead, he discovers a vast Basque family and a mystery that drove his father to America and still festers in the mountain village"--Page 4 of cover.