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Education

Each year, more than 5,000 participants make use of Fort Walla Walla Museum's admission-free school tour program.

You can book a tour for your school by calling the Museum at 509.525.7703 or emailing a request to info@fortwallawallamuseum.org.

Admission-free guided school tours in 2008 are available through the generosity of
Boise's Wallula Mill, Blue Mountain Area Foundation, J.L. Stubblefield Trust,
Bonnie Braden Trust, and Pacific Power Foundation.


From our Home Page: Children from Walla Walla's R-Kidz Early Childhood Education Center enjoy their admission-free tour of the Museum.

Educators are encouraged to download and use the Teacher's Guide to the Museum here. More information can be found in A Visitor's Guide to Fort Walla Walla Museum.

Lewis & Clark in Wallah Wallah Country; follow the route of the expedition through what is now Walla Walla County.

Lewis & Clark fun for kids: download here.

Research tool: Northwest Digital Archives (NWDA) provides access to descriptions of primary sources in the Northwestern United States, including correspondence, diaries, or photographs. Digital reproductions of primary sources are available in some cases.

NWDA contains thousands of documents, called "finding aids", that describe the contents of archival collections. In most cases, reproductions of the collections themselves are not online, although in some cases the finding aids in NWDA will contain links to digital material.

Although collection guides vary from institution to institution, most guides (including those included in the NWDA database) contain the following elements:

Overview of NWDA Collection:

  • This section of the collection guide includes contact information for the archives (repository) that holds the collection as well as general information about the collection, including the title, the collection number (used to identify it at each archives), the dates of the materials in the collection, the size of the collection (quantity), and a summary description of what the collection contains.

NWDA is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in the NWDA website do not necessarily reflect those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

NWDA is funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission

Research tool: Inland Northwest Memories "is a regional database of electronic versions of Inland Northwest historical documents, contributed by cultural institutions from around the region, from their own locations. The Inland Northwest is usually defined as eastern Washington, northern Idaho, northeastern Oregon, and western Montana. The database currently emphasizes documents from northeastern Washington and North Idaho, TINCAN's traditional service areas. It will expand in the future. It is an evolving project, and we encourage feedback. The web site was built and is maintained by the Inland Northwest Community Access Network (TINCAN)."

INMP is funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Small Town Museums: Reflections on Community Life project is supported by Humanities Washington.

Research tool: HistoryLink is "the first and largest encyclopedia of community history created expressly for the Internet. HistoryLink.org is an evolving online encyclopedia of state and local history in Washington state.

HistoryLink.org provides a free, authoritative, and easily accessible history reference for the benefit of students, teachers, journalists, scholars, researchers, and the general public. With a few noted exceptions, all essays and features on this site are original works prepared exclusively for HistoryLink.org by staff, contract writers, volunteers, and consulting experts. The encyclopedia contains more than 4,000 essays as of 2006. It is constantly expanding, with new essays added every week."

Research tool: End of the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center "This Web site is the online presence of the Oregon Trail Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization which exists to manage and develop the End of the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center in Oregon City, Oregon. As part of our mission to educate the public, this site contains a library of historical resources on the Oregon Trail and the early period of settlement in the Pacific Northwest. General visitor information for the End of the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center and nearby historic sites is also available through this Web site."

Suggested bibliography:

AUTHOR TITLE
Bob Bennett Walla Walla: Portrait of a Western Town,
1804 - 1899
Bob Bennett Walla Walla: A Town Built to be a City,
1900 - 1919
Bob Bennett Walla Walla: A Nice Place to Raise a Family,
1920 - 1949
Bob Bennett We'll All Go Home in Spring: Personal Accounts and Adventures as Told by the Pioneers of the West
George L. Converse A Military History of the Columbia Valley,
1848 - 1968
Helen W. Cross College Place, Washington: A Short History
Bernice Cummings History of the Three Wallulas, 1811 - 1988
Cecil Cummings My Life in the Walla Walla Valley
Clifford Merrill Drury Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, and the Opening of the West
Fort Walla Walla Museum staff: James Payne, Laura Schulz, & Paul Franzmann Soldiers, Pioneers & Indian People: positive interaction between cultures in southeastern Washington
Steven L. Grafe Beaded Brilliance: Wearable Art from the Columbia River Plateau
Bill Gulick Snake River Country
Susan E. Harless Native Arts of the of the Columbia River: The Doris Swayze Bounds Collection
Jennifer Karson
Wiyaxayxt / Wiyaakaaawn / As Days Go by: Our History, Our Land, Our People: the Cayuse, Umatilla, and Walla Walla
Nard Jones Marcus Whitman: The Great Command
Thomas B. Keith The Horse Interlude: A Pictorial History of the Horse in the Inland Northwest
Joe Locati The Horticultural Heritage of Walla Walla County, 1818 - 1977
Alexander McGregor Counting Sheep: From Open Range to Agribusiness on the Columbia Plateau
Al McVay and others Dr. Baker's Railroad
Donald William Meinig The Great Columbia Plain: A Historical Geography, 1805 - 1910
Bill Mercer People of the River:
Native Arts of the Oregon Territory
Vance Orchard Fort Walla Walla Museum
Vance Orchard Just Rambling in Blue Mountain Country
Vance Orchard Life on the Dry Side
Vance Orchard Waitsburg: "One of a Kind"
Vance Orchard The Walla Walla Story
Howard Preston The History of the Walla Walla District
(U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) 1948 - 1970
Howard Preston Walla Walla District History: Part II 1970 - 1975
Henry Reimers The Secret Saga of Five-Sack
Click Relander Drummers and Dreamers
Robert H. Ruby &
John A. Brown
The Cayuse Indians: Imperial Tribesmen of Old Oregon
Mary Dodds Schlick Columbia River Basketry: Gift of the Ancestors, Gift of the Earth
Cornelia Shields Seven for Oregon
Theodroe Stern Chiefs & Chief Traders: Indian Relations at Fort Nez Percés, 1818-1855
Erwin N. Thompson Whitman Mission
Erwin N. Thompson Shallow Graves at Waillatpu: The Sagers West
Clifford E. Trafzer &
Richard D. Scheurman
Renegade Tribe: The Palouse Indians and the Invasion of the Inland Northwest
Walla Walla College Sixty Years of Progress

James W. Watt
(introduction by Larry Dodd)

Journal of Mule Train Packing in Eastern Washington in the 1860's


Ferndale School, stateline area of Washington/Oregon

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