Harriette Eliza Cushman Papers 1893-1978

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Harriette Eliza Cushman Papers 1893-1978

The Harriette Eliza Cushman Papers Cushman papers contain information pertaining to her personal life in Montana and the Northwest, as well as information concerning topics in which she was interested. Subjects of these papers include: Montana agriculture and poultry husbandry; politics; environmental issues; Bozeman social and cultural life; Native Americans; Montana history; Lewis and Clark Caverns (Morrison Cave); Montana State University; Verne Dusenberry; Pete Karst; Branson Stevenson.

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Montana State University (Bozeman, Mont.)

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The Montana State Rodeo team was founded as a student club by four men intending to put on a contest for fellow MSC students in 1947. Eugene Pederson, Stuart Hauptmann, Bob Chambers, and Ralph Nichols took their ideas to the college agriculture (or "Little International) club and got $100 in sponsorship money. Those funds went towards repairing the Fairgrounds plumbing to make it usable for the public. Donations from stock contractor Rich Richter and dude rancher Buck Chenny gave the group enoug...

Karst, Peter, 1875-1966

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Dusenberry, Verne, 1906-1966

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James Verne Dusenberry was born in Corning, Iowa, 7 Apr. 1906, and came to Montana as a small child. He received a bachelor's degree at Montana State College, Bozeman, in 1927; a master's at Missoula in 1956 and a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Stockholm in 1962. He encountered the Pend d'Oreille and Flathead Indians as a businessman in 1935 in western Montana and had much personal contact with them. He later moved to Glendive, Mont., where he taught English at Dawson Junior Colleg...

Crow Fair

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Cushman family-Correspondence

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Schultz, James Willard, 1859-1947

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James Willard Schultz (1859-1947) lived in and wrote about the northwestern portion of Montana now included within the Blackfeet Reservation and Glacier National Park. In 1877, at the age of 18, he traveled from his birthplace in Boonville, New York to Fort Benton, Montana Territory. He became interested in American Indians, and lived for many years with the Blackfeet Indians as an accepted member of their nation. Drawing upon his experiences on the western frontier he later wrote thrilling and ...

Cushman, Harriette Eliza, 1890-1978

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Harriette Cushman was born in Birmingham, Alabama, on December 6, 1890. She grew up in New York, attended Mt. Holyoke College, and obtained her degree in chemistry and bacteriology from Cornell University in 1914. She later earned a special certificate in poultry husbandry from Rutgers. Cushman worked as a bio-chemist but eventually began to work in the poultry industry. She worked in Idaho and later at the University of California. In 1922, she accepted a position at Montana State College. She ...

Stevenson, Branson Graves, 1901-1989

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Branson Stevenson was born April 5, 1901 in Franklin County, Georgia. Shortly after his mother died in 1912, he moved with his family to the Panama Canal Zone where he lived through high school and attended an art institute. Stevenson moved to Helena, Montana, in 1920 and joined his brother in oil ventures. He was the advertising manager for Sunburst Oil and Refining Company in Great Falls, Montana. He later worked for Mobil Oil Company from 1931 until his retirement in 1960. During his time in ...