Day Two: Home Away From Home

The Bare Bones of a Teepee structure

Lay them all so they hold each other down
and the structure steady

The Quit Lolligagging Look

Leo showing us how it's done

20 ft Teepee Completed

16 ft Teepee Getting There

Tori Filming Pretending She's Wendy in Peter Pan

With the House Being Built Around Her

After exploring the old western town and stripping down the teepee poles, it was time to get down to business. It was time to pitch a teepee.

Then take it down.

And do it again.

Then take it down.

And do it again.

Then take it down.

And do it again.

Pitch a new Teepee.

Take it down.

Do it again.

Pitch a Virginia City local's teepee.

...After all, if we're going to the gathering we don't want to embarrass ourselves by not being able to put up our own teepee!!

(This could have never happened without Leo's help. -Or the teepee)

; )

Day One: Earning Our Keep

Jenna and Jenny stripping Teepee poles of Bark
Tori trying her hand at it

The watching and learning part

"We're in the Teepee Business" -Dr. Svingen
Day One:

Professor Svingen has purchased an enormous 20 ft Teepee that the field school will be putting to use for debriefs and as lodging while at the Agaidika gathering in Salmon, Id the weekend of the 17th. However, teepees are a little harder to construct than your average tent. So students learned how to do so from the ground up starting with stripping the bark off and preparing teepee poles with the help of Leo Ariwite.

Right Back At It!

Virginia City, MT

While field school in May of 2010 was an invaluable experience that I learned so much and took so much away from, the absorption and reflection of everything I'd learned and discovered left me with even more unanswered questions. So here it is, June of 2011 and myself and a few other students are back from WSU exploring Montana once again. This time we are fortunate enough to share the experience with Professor Mann's students from University of Wisconsin Eau Claire. The Lemhi and the history of the man and the town of Laurin just a dozen or so miles down the road from Virginia City are still paramount in my research focus, while the UW Eau Claire students will be bringing studies about diversity in the old-west-gold-boom town into play as well, researching things such as the Chinese population, in addition to the famous Road Agents and Vigilante Committee of the area.