Ralph Lumley Oral History Interview 1964 August 14

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Ralph Lumley Oral History Interview 1964 August 14

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The Ralph Lumley Oral History Interview is a typed synopsis of conversations and letters prepared during the summer of 1964 when Lumley was 87 years old. Lumley reminisced about his working career in the mines and the development of Red Lodge during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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MSU-Bozeman Library, Merrill G Burlingame Special Collections

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