Summer Institute I

Teaching Traditional American History
Outdoor Field Experience - Summer 2005
Instructor: Mike Lair, Grant Director
Chillicothe High School, 2801 Hornet Drive, Chillicothe, Missouri 64601
School: 660-646-0700 | Home: 660-646-6053
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Sunday June 19 - Stuhr Museum, Grand Island, Nebraska

We'll be met by a museum guide and will experience several layers of plains history including: Pony Express, Oregon & Mormon Trails, Frontier Army Post, Frontier Rail Road town exhibit.

Stuhr Museum	Brian in Railroad Town at Stuhr

Monday June 20 - Fort Hartsuff. Burwell, Nebraska

• Frontier Army Life tour and lecture by park superintendent. A post created to protect the Pawnee from the Sioux
• Halsev National Forest. Halsey, Nebraska
• CCC constructed, flora & fauna of the Sandhill region
• Fort Niobrara, Valentine, Nebraska
• Frontier Army Post

Fort Hartsuff	Fort Hartsuff Enlisted Men's Bunkhouse
View from fire outlook tower at Halsey National Forest	Dr. Dagel discussing Nebraska Sandhills.

Tuesday June 21 - Rosebud Indian Reservation. Mission, South Dakota

• Lecture by instructor from Sinte Galesica University: "The Reservation System, Past & Present"
• Tour of Mission, major town on the Brule Sioux Reservation
• Wounded Knee. Wounded Knee, South Dakota on the Pine Ridge Reservation - Site of the last armed conflict of the plains tribes

Ione Quigley at Sinte Gleska University Mission, SD Rosebud Reservation	Sinte Gleska University

Wednesday June 22 - Badlands National Monument. Interior, South Dakota

• Met by National Park Service guide to study topography, flora & fauna, and history of the region
• Mount Rushmore National Monument, Keystone, So. Dakota
• Met by National Park Service Guide
• Night Lighting Ceremony

Badlands National Park	Bryan Grow & Ryan Madden
	Pictured at left... A group of summer roamers at Mount Rushmore
Mount Rushmore

Thursday June 23 - Southern Black Hills. Paha Sapa Custer, South Dakota

• Site of G.A. Custer's Expedition into the Black Hills
• Custer State Park, President's Summer White House, Wildlife Tour, Crazy Horse Mountain

Crazy Horse - the model in the foreground and the work-in-progress in the background.	The Summer Roamers near Crazy Horse
	Pictured at left... Game Lodge... Summer White House of Calvin Coolidge

Friday June 24 - Northern Black Hills

• Paha Sapa Lead/Deadwood, So. Dakota
• Bear Butte, Tour by State Parks Guide, site of annual Lakota
• Sun Dance, topography, indigenous religion
• Homestake Gold Mine. Tour of the largest working gold mine in North America

View of Deadwood SD from Brown Rock's overlook	Surface mining at the Homestake Mining Co., Lead SD
	At left... Mike relaxing after a tough day...

Saturday June 25 - Devil's Tower Northern Black Hills

• Plains Indians Legends as associated with the tower.
• Bozeman Trail Sioux War of 1866.
• Tours of Fort Phil Kearney, Wagon Box Battle site, Fetterman Battle site, Big Horn Mountain topography

Fetterman Battlefield	Devil's Tower
Area Map of Surrounding Area of Fort Phil Kearney

Sunday June 26 - Little Big Horn Battle Site

National Park Service Guide. Visitors center film presentation, lectures, battlefield walking tours, Reno-Benteen Battle Site, and time to reflect

Quentin walking through the Little Bighorn Battlefield	Reno Benteen Battle Area 3	View of Rosebud Battlefield

Monday June 27 - Buffalo Bill Historical Center. Cody, Wyoming

Museum educational staff will brief us on the four museums (one hour). We'll visit all four museums: Whitney Gallery of Western Art, The buffalo Bill museum, The Plains Indian museum, and The Cody Firearms Museum Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

Buffalo Bill Cody	Indian War Lodge Display at Buffalo Bill Cody Museum	View of the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone
Indian Sweat Lodge Display at the Buffalo Bill Cody Museum		View Down a Main Street of Cody, Wyoming

Tuesday June 28 - Yellowstone National Park

We will have three separate tours that focus on the historical aspects of the park; these include Lewis & Clark, and the escape of the Nez Pierce

Bison Walking Down the Road in Yellowstone	Continental Divide with Brian, Jean, Robin, Debbie, Tana, Mary, and Crystal	Fountain Paint Pots
	Pictured at left... Lower Falls of the Yellowstone River Pictured at right... Old Faithful

Wednesday, June 29 - Yellowstone National Park

• Wyoming Flora & fauna, topography, and the Southern regions of the park
• Grand Teton National Park, Jackson Hole, Wyoming
• Focus on early local fur trade, local tours, the elk reserve

Brian S., Bryan G., Robin, Jean, Debbie, Billie, Quentin, Ryan, Sondra, and Lori by bison on street of Jackson Hole	Shootout in Jackson Hole
View of Grand Tetons	View of ski slopes from street in Jackson Hole

Thursday June 30 - Wind River Indian Reservation

• Topography, flora & fauna of the Basin region
• Fort Robinson State Park Crawford, Nebraska
• Guided tours by park personnel that will include the various eras of the fort's history: Red Cloud Indian Agency, Frontier Army Post Crazy Horse murder site, the Cheyenne outbreak site, remount station for the U.S. Cavalry until WWII, K-9 Corps trained here, German P.0.W.S were housed here. We'll stay in 1880's era brick army officers quarters.

Barricks Row at Fort Robinson	Marker for site of Crazy Horses' assassination
Officer's Row at Fort Robinson	View from the grounds at Ft. Robinson

Friday, July 1 - Museum of the Fur Trade Chadron, Nebraska

• Guided tour of Museum and 1860s & 1870s traders cabin and vegetable garden (trade items and Indian crops)
• Oregon Trail "the Holy Road" Nebraska
• Courthouse, Jail, and Chimney Rocks
• Ogallala Cow Town Ogallala, Nebraska
• Buffalo Bill's Ranch North Platte, Nebraska

Bordeaux's cabin and store on Trading Post	Chimney Rock, Nebraska	Lake McConaughy, Nebraska

Saturday, July 2 - Fort McPherson National Cemetery

A partial list of internments includes Indian scouts, an entire command of cavalry killed by the Lakota, bomber crews from W .W .II, Indian allies, Navajo "wind talkers."

HOME - Upon arrival, I will collect the Directed Trip Journals that each participant is to keep.

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