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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Jim Witty / The Bulletin
March 4, 2008
In the Old Country, they were fishermen and farmers, plying their trades in the Bay of Biscay and in the fertile strip of land between coastal France and Spain and the high ridges of the Pyrenees Mountains. Most lived on farms, growing crops and raising livestock, cutting wood and harvesting....