WAMSUTTER, Wyo.—Alone and thousands of miles from home, the immigrant sheepherder roams some of the West’s most desolate and frigid landscapes, tending a flock for as little as $600 a month without a ...
Sheepherders from Peru and Chile come to Colorado to do work Americans apparently don’t want to do. Migrant sheepherders sign three-year contracts and live in “campitos” – mini trailers with no ...
MEEKER — The anglers and bikers traveling to the mountains slowed their cars to a crawl as hundreds of sheep flocked the country road north of Meeker. Ahead, a sheepherder on horseback surveyed the ...
“Where I live, there are a lot of sheep,” said Saulo Aldazabal Inga, from Chaquiococha, Peru, of how he ended up working as a sheepherder in California. “I raised animals with my parents starting when ...
Former credit union employee used access to steal $345,000 from customer accounts Within weeks of obtaining a ‘work-from-home’ job at a credit union, a Tacoma woman used her brief employment to ...