The three-day event, which brings fourth-grade students from Lovelock, Imlay, Winnemucca, Orovada and McDermitt to visit the Lovelock Indian Caves and the Marzen House Museum, is now in its fifth year.
The event started by the Nevada Outdoor School and Bureau of Land Management has grown its sponsorship each year. In addition to the two already mentioned, other groups involved with this year's event were the Great Basin Institute, Coeur Rochester, Native American tribes from McDermitt, Yerington and Churchill, the State Historical Society and Women in Mining.
Students learned of ancient Indian culture as well as old West culture. At the caves they were instructed in which plants were safe to eat and which were not. In route to and from the caves, bus drivers made stops along the Immigrant Trail and a wildlife stop, where experts were on hand to educate the children and answer questions.
At the Marzen House Museum students learned the house's history, old West culture and about mining past and present.
Winnemucca Grammar School fourth-grader Brianna Smith said she learned how Indians made arrowheads and that the caves were formed by earthquakes.
"It has been a lot of fun," she said.
Lovelock Cave Days is celebrated in conjunction with Nevada Archaeological Month in May.
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