Pedro Altube, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 27-Apr-1827
Place of Birth: Oñati, Basque Country, Spain
Date of Death: 08-Aug-1905
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Pedro Altube
- Pedro de Altube Idigoras (April 27, 1827 – August 8, 1905) was a Basque-born American rancher who established, along with his brother Bernardo, the renowned Spanish Ranch in northwestern Nevada.
- Pedro Altube and his brother Bernardo had emigrated from Spain to Argentina and from there, in 1849, he joined the rush for gold in California, amassing a small fortune not only in the mining camps but in very lucrative cattle and dairy operations.
- The Altube brothers then established a ranch in northeastern Nevada — the extensive and prosperous Spanish Ranch in Independence Valley, Elko County, near Tuscarora.Pedro died sudden and unexpectedly of a stroke in 1905, and was interred in the family vault in Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma.In 1960, he was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum as the "Father of Basques in America".
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