Content Description Capps Family and Zieg Family papers (circa 1908-1998) collection consists of family correspondence including diaries kept by Mydas Zieg (nee Capps) from 1920 to 1997, letters from Willard Kirkham Capps Byam to her children (circa 1930s) as well as letters from Philip Zieg to his parents, Mydas Capps Zieg and Reuben Zieg, while serving in the military and working for the Bureau of Land Management (1957-1998), Christmas letters from Mydas Capps Zieg (1948-1980), amongst letters from other...

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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Materials consist of correspondence collected by Gayle Hageman. The correspondence (1953-1957) is entirely composed of incoming letters from Hageman's friend, Rosalie Mae "Rosie" Carlson. Topics include social life in the towns of Klein and Broadview, women's basketball, 4-H clubs, the closure of the high school in Klein, and transferring to Roundup, MT.