Item: Caroline McGill Collection, 1909-1958
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Finding Aid Title: Caroline McGill Collection, 1909-1958
Finding Aid Collection Number: 0945
Date Range of Collection: 1909-1958
Creator of Materials: McGill, Caroline, 1879-1959
Content Description: The papers in this collection consist of: autobiographical materials, including a transcription of travel notes originally kept by McGill on the back of postcards during her 1909-1910 European tour, her reminiscences of Gallatin Canyon prior to her purchase of the 320 Ranch in 1936, and notes on the establishment of the Museum of the Rockies, an original manuscript history of Gallatin Canyon prepared by McGill from various interviews, letters, and research readings supplemented by an index prepared by Harriet Cushman and members of the Montana Institute for the Arts, subject files pertaining mostly to personalities associated with the history of Gallatin Canyon, tourist information brochures and pamphlets, general personal and research correspondence. Persons mentioned include: Andrew Levinski, Bert Stillman, Charles Franklin High, Cunningham and Behring, Dr. L.E. Safely, Henry Sapplington, Lew Bartholomew, Pete Karst, Plenty Coups, Ralph Oliver, Richard A. Harlow, Sam Wilson, Stanley Davis, Story Ranch, Thomas Michener, Vick Smith, Walter Cooper, Zachariah Sales.
Finding Aid URL: http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv66384
Keywords: prominent montanans, montana history, autobiographies, reminiscences, caroline mcgill, travel, gallatin canyon history, museum of the rockies history, interviews, personal letters, andrew levinski, bert stillman, charles franklin high, cunningham and behr
Subjects: The People of Montana Montana and Histories of the American West
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