Item: Montana Dictations (Gallatin County), 1884-1885
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Finding Aid Title: Montana Dictations (Gallatin County), 1884-1885
Finding Aid Collection Number: 1348
Date Range of Collection: 1884-1885
Creator of Materials: Bancroft Library
Content Description: The Montana Dictations were gathered by Bancroft's field agents in 1884 and 1885. Each subject interviewed provided brief biographical data and information concerning the social life and customs in frontier Montana. The people intereviewed, and the place where interviewed, are as follows: At Bozeman, Edward D. Alston (1842-1886); E. T. Campbell (1842- ); Riley Cook (1853- ); W. H. Ellis (1826- ); Peter Emmel (1840- ); E. D. Ferguson (1841- ); M. M. Ferguson (1837- ); George W. Flanders (1842- ); Thomas Garlick (1836- ); John Hanson (1840- ); D. R. Harris; Frank Hill (1837- ); Charles Holmes (1836- ); John A. Howes (1817- ); J. S. Huffine (1849- ); James Kent (1841- ); Alexander Kissell (1839- ); G. W. Krattcar (1826- ); Owen McCann (1840- ); S. J. McGuire (1850- ); George E. McKinsey (1822- ); J. W. Mardis (1841- ); R. T. Menefee (1833- ); Louis Mize (1859- ); Allen Myres (1828- ); John W. Nelson (1835-1907); W. C. Newton (1853- ); Francis Purcell (1840- ), with McCann above; John E. Reese (1819- ); Robert N. Riddle (1840-1912); William Sheppard (1846- ); Joseph Sparlin (1835- ); Moses Temple (1848- ); Thomas J. Towler (1850- ); David D. Walton (1834- ); William White (1834-1915); Amos Williams (1840- ); W. W. Wolverton (1846- ); at Central Park, Benjamin F. Dawes (1833- ); Henry Keebe (1840- ); W. H. Potter (1853- ), "the only man I have found who came out with Bozeman"; Benjamin T. Sanborn (1849- ); Mark M. White (1857- ); at Gallatin City, J. Burrell (1839- ); F. J. Dunbar (1837- ); George Hutchison (1835- ); O. W. Jay (1844- ); John Thomas Miller (1833- ); Samuel Scow (1858- ); Rufus Smith (1855- ); Asa Kimbal Stanton (1832-1896); M. Witten (1856- ); at Hillsdale, J. S. Ballard (1847- ); Andrew Cowen (1834-1899); R. M. Craven (1842- ); W. H. Murray (1847- ); at Riverside, O. Byam (1854- ); at Salesville, C. Etherington (1831- ); John W. Marshall (1844- ); at Three Forks, T. T. Callaghan (1854- ); A. L. Shed (1853- ); D. A. Swarner (1852- ); at Willow Creek, E. S. Banta (1832- ); G. L. Dukes (1824- ); George W. Hoskins (1824- ).
Finding Aid URL: http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv01507
Keywords: frontier and pioneer life, montana, customs
Subjects: Montana and Histories of the American West
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