Item: Clifton B. Worthen-James Fergus Collection, 1884-1955
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Finding Aid Title: Clifton B. Worthen-James Fergus Collection, 1884-1955
Finding Aid Collection Number: 0913
Date Range of Collection: 1884-1955
Creator of Materials: Burlingame, Merrill G. [Merrill Gildea], 1901-, collector
Content Description: The Worthen-Fergus collection is a combination of original documents, photocopies, and typed transcripts selected from all of the sources described above. The materials document both the intellectual pursuits of Clifton B. Worthen as a historian and teacher, as well as the pioneer experiences of the James Fergus family. Subjects to which the collection pertain includes: history of central Montana, especially Fergus County and the Judith Basin, the vigilante activity of 1884, the DHS Ranch, the Lewis and Clark expedition, Montana politics and elections, ranching, gold rush towns of Bannack, Virginia City, and Helena, the Society of Montana Pioneers, the winter of 1887 and its effect on ranching, and territorial Montana's relations with Indian residents. Correspondents or authors of pieces in the collection include: Clifton B. Worthen, James Fergus, Andrew Fergus, Hazel A. Fergus, Oscar O. Mueller, Granville Stuart, Cornelius Hedges, Wilbur F. Sanders, Patrick Dunlany, Phillip Shoule, S.C. Gilpatrick, D.A. Meagher, A.L. Randall, Theodore Lindsay, J.L Perkins, William Cantrell, S.M. Emery, S. Spain, B.P. Carpenter, J.E. Richards, William Fly, and W.H. Watson.
Finding Aid URL: http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv58935
Keywords: montana history, prominent montanans, lewis and clark expedition, authors, political campaigns and elections, montana politics, religion, agriculture and ranching, montana gold rush towns, dhs ranch, montana pioneers, clifton b. worthen, james fergus, fed
Subjects: The People of Montana Montana and Histories of the American West
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