Abstract

The James Fergus Family papers are divided into four subgroups: James Fergus; Andrew Fergus; Fergus Live Stock and Land Company; and miscellaneous. Papers (1857-1971) include biographical materials, incoming correspondence, outgoing correspondence, general correspondence, financial records, legal documents, subject files, and miscellany.

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...