Virginia City

By Adrian Aumen, College of Arts & Sciences VIRGINIA CITY, Mont. – Dancing, drumming and the renaming of a public park here will honor an important person in the region’s history and mark the start of a public history and education project at Washington State University in Pullman, Wash.

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 […]