Ranger Walk - Rancho San Rafael - Basque History Walk

After meeting in the May Museum parking lot, all participants will walk through the Nevada Farms and Families area to the Basque reader boards and camp wagon near Herman's Pond. William A. Douglass, generally considered one of the foremost experts in Basque Studies, will speak by the reader boards on Basque history in general, with a special emphasis on Basques in the New World. The group will then walk under McCarran through the McCarran tunnel to the Monument to the Basque Sheepherder. There, Carmelo Urza, author of "Art and Symbolism in the National Basque Monument" will speak briefly on how the monument came to be and answer relevant questions.