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HISTORICAL TRUCKS & VIRTUAL LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

Bring history into the classroom! Our resource trunks focus on the history and culture of Sheridan County, the Bighorn Mountains, and the Powder River Basin. Each trunk contains student activities, a teacher resource guide, objects and photographs. Choose among four different trunks:

1. The Bison (Buffalo) Culture
2. Native Americans on the High Plains
3. Black Diamonds: Exploring Sheridan’s Coal Mining
4. Pioneer Games


History Trunks are available for check out year round at no cost. They can be checked out for a week, but must be reserved at least two weeks in advance. 

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 In partnership with the WYO State Museum, please find 4th grade educational trunks or virtual learning opportunities HERE. Mountain Men, Oregon Trail, and Native American of the Great Plains Educational Trunks are now available locally and available for your classes use.   

Teaching with primary sources [tps] great plains region

 Museum at the Bighorns is part of the Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) Great Plains Region, which is coordinated by the National Council for History Education, to further the Library of Congress mission to engage, inspire, and inform the American people with a universal and enduring source of knowledge and creativity. The links below offer opportunities to incorporate Library of Congress collections related to Wyoming in your classes' curriculum.  


Learn more about TPS

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Helpful Links
Wyoming Why Not? Book 1908 An historical geography of the United States, MacCoun, Townsend, 1845-1932 Inside the stockade of "mountain man" Jim Bridger's trading post at Fort Bridger, a Wyoming state historical site "Mountain man" Jim Bridger's trading post and stockade

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