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This collection consists of diaries (1877-1937) kept by Idora Guthrie describing her daily life, family, activities, teaching career, mining and homesteading experiences, sales career, etc. Also included are two unidentified diaries (1871-1872), and miscellaneous clippings.

Content Description James Holt papers (1930) family biography, news clippings, correspondence to James Holt from his former classmate Ben Nutts describing his teaching and living experience in Lame Deer, Montana on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation. Discusses teaching in a 2 room school house where he also lived. Also included is a handwritten description of James and Lucy Holt's story of leaving Missouri and homesteading in Montana in 1914 written by their grandson, Wallace Umber (undated) and a newscliping...

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Irma Reeder was a Big Sandy, Montana, schoolteacher. She later moved to Livingston where she owned and operated a motel. This collection consists of 13 of her diaries (1927-1963). There are also a diary (1930-1932) kept by S. Eugene Reeder while in Russia as a tractor expert; a letters; cards; programs; and clippings.

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Clark Shipman farmed in Vermont and New Jersey before travelling to Montana Territory with his son Henry, in 1881, and settling near Lewistown. Two of his daughters, Winifred and Gertrude, taught school in the area. The collection (1814-1989) consists primarily of correspondence (1841-1955) of various family members; diaries (1882-1908); and miscellaneous legal documents, financial records, and clippings. Photographs were transferred to the Photograph Archives.