Country School Legacy Project
Scope and Content
Records of the Country School Legacy Project in Wyoming. The project was funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and sponsored by the Mountain Plains Library Association. The project examined the role of country schools in shaping life and culture in the participating states. Robert Barthell, English Instructor at Northwest Community College in Powell, was the Wyoming state director.
Records include information on various schools, with historical background; project reports; manuscripts and reports about schools; related newspaper articles; artwork and written views of students about their schools; photocopies of early school records; project information and guidelines; historic site forms; research notes; project related correspondence; photographs of students, teachers, and schoolhouses; and final reports by project administrators.
Records were apparently added to the collection as they came in, and there is no apparent arrangement system. However, the collection includes a fairly complete inventory of the folders, which is in the first box. Photographs have been moved to the Historical Photograph Collection.
Items not initially inventoried, and included in the fourth box of the collection, include:
- List of oral history tapes
- “Work and Leisure in Country Schools in Wyoming”
- Information on exhibit use (“Technical Manual”)
- Seminar sites
- Register: Utah Country School Legacy Archives
- “Country School Legacy: Humanities on the Frontier, South Dakota, 1982.
- "The Rural Schoolhouse", 1974
- "With Book and Plow", revised edition by Mark N. Partridge; 1976
- "Bookkeeping and Accounting for Rural Schools" by M.E. Studebaker; 1932
- "Pioneer Parade, a Collection of Newspaper and Magazine Stories of Eastern Laramie County, Wyoming" by Martha Thompson, 1967
- Facsimile reprints "The Tales of Peter Parley about America", 1828
- Facsimile reprints "Child’s First Reader", 1848
- Facsimile reprints "The Second Reader", 1853
Dates
- 1980-1982
Language of Materials
English
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research.
Extent
From the Collection: 2.5 cubic feet
Creator
- From the Collection: Mountain Plains Library Association (Organization)
Repository Details
Part of the Wyoming State Archives, Wyoming Cultural Resources Division, Wyoming Department of State Parks & Cultural Resources Repository
Barrett Building
2301 Central Avenue
Cheyenne Wyoming 82002 United States
(307) 777-7826
wyarchive@wyo.gov