Lesley M. Heathcote Papers 1895-1964

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Lesley M. Heathcote Papers 1895-1964

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The Lesley M. Heathcote Papers consists of photocopies and transcriptions of letter press books, a minute book, documents pertaining to districts 1, 2, 3, and 4, as well as ephemera held in collection RS 31, Montana State Arid Land Grant Commission Records 1895-1903 at the Montana Historical Society Research Center in Helena. The collection also includes correspondence dealing with Heathcote's work with the Montana Library Association, the Bozeman Chamber of Commerce Education Committee, the Bozeman Community Library Committee, and the promotion of the 1947 booklet Pioneer Stories by former Bozeman resident C. T. Stranahan.

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MSU-Bozeman Library, Merrill G Burlingame Special Collections

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Bozeman Chamber of Commerce.-Education Committee

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Montana Library Association

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Heathcote, Lesley M., 1904-1997

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Lesley M. Heathcote (1904-1997) was a former director for the Montana State University libraries from 1949 to 1970. Heathcote obtained her bachelor and master's degrees from the University of Alberta and the University of Washington. She was also awarded an honorary doctorate from Montana State University in 1981. During her career she actively worked to expand public and school library development, serving as president of the Montana Library Association and the Pacific Northwest Li...

Montana. State Arid Land Grant Commission

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In 1894 the United States Congress passed the Carey Land Act, amending the earlier Desert Land Act, to "aid the public land states in the reclamation of the desert lands therein, and the settlement, cultivation and sale thereof in small tracts to actual settlers." The Act granted to the states, free of cost, "such desert lands ... as the state may cause to be irrigated, reclaimed, occupied, and not less than 20 acres of each 160 acre tract cultivated by actual settlers." The state w...

Bozeman Community Library Committee

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Stranahan, C. T. -Pioneer stories

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