Item: Life of Rudy Christianson : Typescript, 1978
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Finding Aid Title: Life of Rudy Christianson : Typescript, 1978
Finding Aid Collection Number: 1267
Date Range of Collection: 1978-00-00
Creator of Materials: Koenker, Hazel N.
Content Description: The Life of Rudy Christianson is a 53 page photocopy of an original typescript. The narration, which is based on a series of unrecorded personal interviews with Christianson by Koenker, is in the third person with many literary embellishments. The narrative describes Rudy's childhood in Norway, his years homesteading and working in Wolf Point, his brief army service, and his work for the Great Northern. In a separate section of the manuscript is a biography of his wife, Carolyn. She homesteaded as a girl near Perma, Montana, attended high school in Missoula, and attended university studies in Wisconsin where she performed on the violin. After the death of her first husband, she married Christianson in Wenatchee, Washington in 1954.
Finding Aid URL: http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv52770
Keywords: montana; frontier life; pioneer life
Subjects: Montana and Histories of the American West
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