Exhibits > Trout Creek >
Boys at Hot Springs with Teachers
17. Boys at Hot Springs with disciplinarians
or teachers, 1896 (Wind River Historical Center/Dubois Museum)
 Trips
to the Hot Springs were a regular part of life at both the Government
School and St. Michael’s Mission School. The gentleman in cavalry
britches standing here behind the boys fits the description of the
Government School’s disciplinarians who dressed in a semi-military
fashion and carried a riding crop. Discipline at “The Gravy
School,” especially in the early years, was rough:
Many time you worked plenty for not obeying everybody. Even
for the smallest infraction...they would stand you in the hallways.
They stand you there for hours on end and if that wasn’t
severe enough, they’d get a broom stick and...you kneel down,
right under your knees and there you are! You have to squirm around
and you can’t holler....Holler what? Hell, nobody’d
help you, because the disciplinarian is very strict....The man
who was in charge of it was a retired Army officer. (Val Norman)
|
