EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS & RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
As a historic house museum filled with original objects and sitting on its original grounds, Trail End can't help but serve as a learning laboratory for students of all ages. While the site's educational focus has traditionally been on history for elementary and junior high students, recent efforts have broadened that focus to include science and nature as well as language arts and music for older students and adults.
STUDENT PROGRAMS
Junior Curator
Living Laboratory
Junior Curator
Part of the Wyoming State Parks, Historic Sites & Trails' Kid's Xtreme initiative, this week-long summer program for students grades six through eight lets them go beyond the Plexiglass doors and into the collections to let them actually TOUCH the STUFF.
The result is a free-standing closet-sized exhibit that reveals part of the fascinating history of Trail End and/or the Kendrick Family.
TechnoPast
Living Laboratory
Junior Curator
Like a chocolate-vanilla swirl ice cream cone, this program combines history with technology to create a tasty treat for students in grades six through twelve.
Students pick a topic, write a script, and then act, produce, film and edit their video. Since considerable research is involved in producing the final product, this is yet another way for participants to experience history in a hands-on way.
Living Laboratory
Living Laboratory
Living Laboratory
This collection of site-based and hands-on science activities is custom-designed to introduce local teachers (third through eighth grades) to the wealth of learning opportunities available on the grounds at the Trail End State Historic Site.
Funded in part by Dining For a Cause, the Trail End Guilds, the Wyoming Community Foundation, and the Wyoming Division of State Parks, Historic Sites & Trails.
PHOTO & ARCHIVAL COLLECTIONS
Kendrick Family Collection
Manville Kendrick Collection
Manville Kendrick Collection
Includes archival materials from the Kendrick, Wulfjen, Cumming, Harmon, Peeler, and Booth families. of Virginia, Texas and Wyoming.
Finding aid not available
Primarily 1900-1955 (some earlier/later); correspondence with family and friends; magazines and books; genealogical research materials; photographs
Manville Kendrick Collection
Manville Kendrick Collection
Manville Kendrick Collection
Manville Kendrick, son of John Benjamin and Eula Wulfjen Kendrick, served as Kendrick Cattle Company president for fifty years.
Finding aid available
Primarily 1900-1982; family records; correspondence with family and friends; magazines and books; genealogical research materials; photographs
Hoff Photographic Collection
Manville Kendrick Collection
Hoff Photographic Collection
Hundreds of portraits and snapshots from Kendrick family sources, primarily Rosa-Maye Kendrick Harmon and Ida Peeler Wulfjen.
Partial finding aid available
Rosa-Maye Kendrick photo albums (c1913-1933); Eula Wulfjen Kendrick photo albums (c1897-1920); Ida Peeler Wulfjen photo albums (c1897-1902); formal portraits
William S. Sopris Collection
Elizabeth Botsford Cox Book Collection
Hoff Photographic Collection
An entrepreneur and promoter, William S. Sopris was also sports editor for Sheridan newspapers during the 1910s and 20s.
Partial finding aid available
Newspaper clippings (1917-1940s); programs, dance cards, tickets, flyers, etc.; dance club posters; beauty contest promotional materials; photographs of sports figures, beauty contestants, actors, etc.
Elizabeth Botsford Cox Book Collection
Elizabeth Botsford Cox Book Collection
Elizabeth Botsford Cox Book Collection
A ranching neighbor of the Kendricks', Cox collected thousands of books, including many identical to those in the Kendrick family library.
Finding aid available
Primarily Western history; natural history; poetry and literature
Many of the pre-1933 titles are on exhibit throughout Trail End; others are available for in-house research
Construction Era Documents
Elizabeth Botsford Cox Book Collection
Elizabeth Botsford Cox Book Collection
Photocopies of hundreds of construction era documents (1908-1913) ; originals are at the Wyoming State Archives in Cheyenne.
Finding aid available
Correspondence with architects, interior designers, etc.; bills of lading, receipts and invoices; preliminary drawings of various rooms and features; specifications for plumbing, plastering, draperies, etc.