Whitman College's "Semester in the West" students, also known as "Westies," gather to discuss events of the day. Every evening, students come together in a circle and share observations. They are camped along the Upper Missouri River in Montana discussing the indigenous West, Lewis & Clark, and the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument. Semester in the West, which involves students ground-truthing myth, legend, culture and politics, is led by Snow's colleague, Phil Brick, but together, at the campus in Walla Walla, Washington, they and colleagues have tried to build a place-based curriculum. Photo by Todd Wilkinson