Arizona - The Basque Connection

[momta]

Hi Arizona! Someone suggested I repost this to the Arizona group, so here you go. Hope you like it.

(FYI, I live in Colorado, but my daughter's fiancé lives in Winslow and goes to NAU, so we've been driving down every few months. Love Arizona! )

[Kali]

1. this is great, thanks for posting!

I thought I knew a lot of AZ history, but hadn't ever read about this.

[momta]

2. Thanks, Kali.

This was fun to research.

[Kali]

3. I don't remember it Arizona itself had an entry, so now you have me thinking about

digging up the old copy of Barnes's Arizona Place Names.

[momta]

4. This is page XV of Barnes' book:

Of course, he did his research before William (Mr. Basque) Douglass looked into it in 1979.

If you're interested, I found a copy of the book here:

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000118510936&view=1up&seq=51

[Kali]

5. ha! thanks

I am pretty sure I know where my copy is, but I think it is behind some other stored furniture.

[momta]

6. I couldn't find mine either

Of course, I can't find ANYTHING in my house these days. Also, these days it's easier to just sit on my butt and look it up online. That's just how lazy I am.

[Kali]

7. oh I hear THAT!

[StarryNite]

8. Very interesting!

Thank you for posting this here. I always wrongly assumed Arizona got it's name because it's an arid zone.