Walter Aitken Water Rights Casebook 1909

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Walter Aitken Water Rights Casebook 1909

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The Walter Aitken Water Rights Casebook is a bound ledger with trial notations, witness statements, and plaintiff questionnaires pertaining to the West Gallatin River water rights suit of 1909. Included is a copy of a form letter sent to all of the plaintiffs giving the schedule of the court to receive their individual testimonies.

1 volume

eng,

MSU-Bozeman Library, Merrill G Burlingame Special Collections

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Aitken, Walter, 1869-1948

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Walter Aitken was born in Streetsville, Ontario, Canada on June 17, 1869, the son of William and Janet MacGregor Aitken. He attended common schools and moved to New York City in 1886 where he learned the printer's trade. Aitken traveled to Montana in 1888 and sought work as a cowboy in the Shields River valley until resuming he resumed his newspaper career for the Livingston Post in 1893. He went on to establish newspapers of his own in Columbus, Big Timer, and Kalispell before beco...