Leggat, Alexander, 1876-1961
Biographical notes:
Alexander Leggat was a Butte, Montana mining engineer, hotel owner, and collector of western Americana. He was born in Owasso, Michigan, on December 22, 1876, to John A. Leggat and his wife, Claribel Ament Leggat. He came to Butte, Montana with his mother in 1880 and attended public schools in Butte, graduating from the Butte High School in 1894. He next attended the college of Montana at Deer Lodge, and also the Michigan School of Mines in Houghton. He worked as a mining engineer in Montana and served in many Butte civic organizations. Leggat purchased a hotel in Butte in the early twentieth century and became active in the Montana Hotel Association in 1923. He began collecting books and manuscripts pertaining to Montana and the West in the 1920s and eventually compiled an impressive private library. Following his death in 1961, his widow began negotiations with Montana State College for the sale of the collection.
From the guide to the Alexander Leggat Collection, 1864-1964, (Montana State University-Bozeman Library, Merrill G Burlingame Special Collections)
Butte, Montana mining engineer, hotel owner, and collector of Western Americana.
From the description of Alexander Leggat collection, 1864-1964. (Montana State University Bozeman Library). WorldCat record id: 42928074
Mining engineer, hotel owner, and collector of western Americana, of Butte, Mont.
Alexander Leggat was born in Owasso, Mich., on 22 Dec. 1876, to John A. Leggat and his wife, Claribel Ament Leggat. He came to Butte, Mont., with his mother in 1880 and attended public schools in Butte, graduating from the Butte High School in 1894. He next attended the College of Montana at Deer Lodge, and also the Michigan Mining School in Houghton. He worked as a mining engineer in Montana and served in many Butte civic organizations. Leggat purchased a hotel in Butte in the early twentieth century and became active in the Montana Hotel Association in 1923. He began collecting books and manuscripts pertaining to Montana and the West in the 1920s and eventually compiled an impressive private library.
From the description of Alexander Leggat collection, 1864-1964. (Montana State University Bozeman Library). WorldCat record id: 154689543
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Subjects:
- Americana
- Americana
- Assiniboine Indians
- Assiniboine Indians
- Blackfeet Indians
- Blackfeet Indians
- Blood Indians
- Blood Indians
- Bozeman
- Political campaigns
- Political campaigns
- Civic Activism
- Gros Ventre Indians (Montana)
- Gros Ventre Indians (Montana)-Montana
- Gros Ventres Indians
- Gros Ventres Indians
- Indians of North America
- Indians of North America
- Kainah Indians
- Kainah Indians
- Mine accidents
- Mine accidents
- Mineral industries
- Mines and mineral resources
- Mines and mineral resources
- Mines and mineral resources
- Mining engineers
- Missoula
- Montana
- Native Americans
- Overland journeys to Montana
- Overland Journeys to the Northwestern United States
- Photographs
- Piegan Indians
- Piegan Indians
- Pioneers
- Siksika Indians
- Siksika Indians
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- Virginia City (Mont.) (as recorded)
- Montana (as recorded)
- Beaverhead County (Mont.) (as recorded)
- Silver Bow County (Mont.) (as recorded)
- Montana-Pictorial works (as recorded)
- Virginia City (Mont.)-Photographs (as recorded)
- Butte (Mont.) (as recorded)
- Butte (Mont.) (as recorded)
- Pioneer (Mont.) (as recorded)
- Michigan--Calumet (as recorded)
- Missoula (Mont.) (as recorded)
- Madison County (Mont.) (as recorded)
- Montana-History-Sources (as recorded)
- Montana-Politics and government (as recorded)
- Silver Bow County (Mont.) (as recorded)
- Butte (Mont.)-Photographs (as recorded)
- Pioneer (Mont.)-Photographs (as recorded)
- Virginia City (Mont.) (as recorded)
- West (U.S.)-History-Sources (as recorded)
- West (U.S.) (as recorded)
- Missoula (Mont.)-Photographs (as recorded)
- Madison County (Mont.) (as recorded)
- Bozeman (Mont.) (as recorded)
- Beaverhead County (Mont.) (as recorded)
- Bozeman (Mont.) (as recorded)
- Montana--Butte (as recorded)
- Montana (as recorded)
