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A man playing a guitar and singing to a close crowd of a dozen or so men and women

New Collection Online: the Italian Americans in the West Project

Posted by: Stephanie Hall

Italians in the United States are commonly associated with communities in cities in the east. But during the course of research on ranching culture in Nevada between 1978 and 1982, American Folklife Center researchers met Italian American ranchers and found architectural evidence of Italian settlement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Italians, like …