Item: Campbell Family Papers, 1836-1899
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Finding Aid Title: Campbell Family Papers, 1836-1899
Finding Aid Collection Number: 0325
Date Range of Collection: 1836-1899
Creator of Materials: Campbell Family
Content Description: The Campbell family papers are positive photocopies of original documents. The collection includes four business related letters written to James B. Campbell from New York, Michigan, Washington D. C. and Virginia City, Montana Territory from 1836 to 1868; one letter from James B. Campbell to A. J. Jackson of Galena, Illinois, written from St. Charles, Missouri in 1862 which discusses Campbell's plans to move west; an 1873 letter from Gurdon Campbell to his mother describing a flood at Gallatin City; an 1877 letter from Gurdon Campbell to his sister Fannie with a remarkably sympathetic account of the Nez Perce pursuit and his friend, Looking Glass; two letters from Rebecca Jackson of Galena, Illinois to Fannie Campbell describing the death of her mother, Sarah Campbell. A single folder of legal documents and promissory notes pertaining to the Campbell family dated from 1867 to 1899 complete the collection.
Finding Aid URL: http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv38525
Keywords: montana history, nez perce indians, floods and flood plains, campbell family, business letters, james b. campbell, a.j. jackson, gurdon campbell, gallatin city (montana) flood, looking glass, rebecca jackson, legal documents, natural disasters
Subjects: Montana and Histories of the American West
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