[6] Circa the 1880s there were education programs for dependent children, involving a person hired to teach via money from parents or a soldier providing such services.

Some residents chose to send their children to schools in locations towards the east of the country or in Bozeman, Montana.

At the time, a lack of transportation options made it difficult to send children to the school in Gardiner.

Prior to 2008, some of the students in Mammoth went to school in Gardiner, but at the time Wyoming did not have an agreement to pay Montana the tuition money.

Additionally, the interstate agreement to send Wyoming money to Montana was made circa that year.