field school

Photo: Students work with artifacts in Virginia City lab during field school last May. (Photo courtesy of Rob McCoy).   The rush is on. WSU history students have found a lode of educational prospects in the old west mining town of Virginia City, Mont. And their find has prompted architecture professors to tentatively consider a […]

Plans are in the works for a WSU public history field school in the historic mining town and former capital of Montana Territory, Virginia City, Mont. Virginia City is located about an hour southeast of Butte and an hour southwest of Bozeman.  The field school, with its first class of approximately 20 graduate students tentatively […]