June 19-June 26, 2025

Participants will focus on the different peoples who have called the Intermountain West home. We will explore the West’s geography and consider the interactions of Natives, explorers, fur traders, miners, and immigrants, walking the trails and canoeing the rivers as they did. Using primary sources and geographic sites, participants will study the interactions, conflict, and cooperation between different groups of westerners. Teachers will tour the Fort Hall replica in Pocatello, Idaho, and perhaps visit the original site of Fort Hall on the Bannock Shoshoni Indian Reservation. They will meet with members of the Shoshoni Bannock Tribal Council, and tour tribal offices. In Butte, Montana, participants will have the opportunity to visit Berkeley Pit, an open-pit copper mine, and tour the World Mining Museum. In Great Falls, Montana, participants will visit Buffalo Jump State Park; tour the Charles M. Russell Museum of Western Art; tour the route Lewis and Clark used to portage the Great Falls of the Missouri and tour the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center. They will visit Fort Benton. Finally, participants will have the unique opportunity of canoeing and camping for three days on the Missouri River, retracing the Lewis and Clark route through an area Lewis referred to as “scenes of visionary enchantment.” Faculty directing the seminar are Dr. Jay H. Buckley, Associate Professor of History at Brigham Young University and Dr. Hadyn B. Call, Principal of Bountiful Junior High School, Davis School District.
H. Buckley, Associate Professor of History at Brigham Young University and Dr. Hadyn B. Call, Principal of Bountiful Junior High School, Davis School District.