Spend a weekend with history professor Bob Bonner and geology and environmental studies professor Ed Buchwald journeying from prehistoric time through the fossilized history of dinosaurs and the more recent history of the American West. This is a wonderful opportunity for families to share a vacation they could relive for a lifetime.

DINOSAURS

We will join paleo-technicians on an active dinosaur dig—and may even find a dinosaur bone! We will also visit the Wyoming Dinosaur Center, which includes 12,000 square feet of exhibition area and displays fossils and life forms from earliest geologic time periods through the present. The central hall houses dozens of full-size mounted skeletons, including more than 20 dinosaurs.

THE WILD WEST

A day trip to Cody will feature visits to such western art museums as the Buffalo Bill Museum, the Whitney Gallery of Western Art, the Plains Indian Museum, the Cody Firearms Museum, and the Draper Museum of Natural History (visit www.bbhc.org/museums). Our guide, Professor Bonner, will engage us in the life and times of the West.

ACCOMMODATIONS

Thermopolis is a small, picturesque Western town whose altitude exceeds the population: 4,500 feet above sea level versus 3,200 residents. A block of rooms is being held at the

Holiday Inn of the Waters in Hot Springs State Park at a rate of $112.50 per night. This block will be held until July 5. You may contact the hotel directly at 307-864-3131 to make your reservations. Be sure to mention that you are with Carleton College. Learn more at www.thermopolis-hi.com.

FACULTY

Robert Bonner, the Marjorie Crabb Garbisch Professor of History, emeritus, has taught at Carleton since 1967. Over the course of his career, Bonner’s teaching interests shifted from English and European History to the American West. He has consulted on a federal reclamation project in Wyoming, taught courses on the history of public land and American Indian history, and has published and lectured on a variety of topics about the American West, including water and development.

Ed Buchwald, the McBride Professor of Geology and Environmental Studies, emeritus, has expertise in environmental geology, paleobiology, and hydrology. He taught at Carleton for 35 years and has led several successful alumni adventures.

SCHEDULE

Thursday, July 19

1:30 p.m. Meet at the Wyoming Dinosaur Center; check in with the group and prepare for afternoon museum tour

2 p.m. Museum Tour – Wyoming Dinosaur Center

4 p.m. Free time - check into hotel, etc.

6 p.m. Dinner

- Dinosaur Talk by Professor Buchwald

Friday, July 20

7 a.m. Breakfast

8 a.m. Wyoming Dinosaur Center - Brief orientation on geology and paleontology of ranch; digging and data collection procedures

9 a.m. Van leaves for dig site

Noon Lunch break on site

12:30 p.m. Resume dig activity

4 p.m. Complete site work and documentation

Check in equipment

Return to Wyoming Dinosaur Center

6 p.m. Dinner on your own

Saturday, July 21

8 a.m. Board Bus for trip to Cody, Wy.

Continental Breakfast will be served on the bus

Upon Arrival in Cody--Begin tour of Museums

11:30 a.m. Group Lunch at Irma Hotel, Cody

1 p.m. Return to Museums and resume tours

4 p.m. Board bus to begin return to Thermopolis

5 p.m. Western Steak Fry – Meeteetse, Wy.

7 p.m. Continue on our way to Thermopolis

Sunday, July 22

9:30 am. Continental Breakfast . . . Questions, Answers and Farewell

WEEKEND PACKAGE PRICE:

$250.00 per adult/ 175.00 for children 13 and under
(includes dinner on Thursday and Saturday, breakfasts all days, and lunch and dinner Saturday, entrance to Wyoming Dinosaur Center and Dig Sites and the Cody Museums)

QUESTIONS?

Please contact Merilyn Calcutt at the Alumni Affairs Office, 507-222-5602.