Alexander Leggat collection, 1864-1964.

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Alexander Leggat collection, 1864-1964.

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The Leggat collection has been divided into two large groups: Family Papers and Collection Papers. The Family Papers consist of correspondence, diaries, legal papers, and scrapbook memorabilia all pertaining to Alexander Leggat and his extended family. The family correspondence includes letters from Alexander Leggat: his parents, John A. Leggat and Claribel A. Leggat; his sister, Claribel A. Leggat; and other relatives in Michigan, Montana, and Missouri. The letters include descriptions of Mrs.Claribel A. Leggat's 1880 journey from Grand Haven, Mich., to Leggat's Mill on the Big Hole River, Mont.; details of life in 1880 Butte, Mont.; the death of Mrs. Claribel A. Leggat after the birth of her daughter in 1881; Alexander Leggat's childhood in Montana and Michigan; his relationship with his grandmother; school life at the College of Montana in Deer Lodge; the 1889 fire in the Anaconda and St. Lawrence mines which resulted in several deaths; operations on Leggat's nose in New York; his boating with school friends in northern Michigan; and his job at a mine in Calumet, Mich. The Collection papers consist of collecting correspondence created or collected by Leggat while purchasing books and manuscripts on Western Americana; inventories and lists of books collected; historic Montana legal documents and manuscript files of documents collected for their historical or display value; and photographs. Subjects or creators of manuscripts include Charles Bechner, Charles A. Broadwater, William H. Clagett, James M. Cavanaugh, J.E. Clayton, Sidney Edgerton, W.R.H. Edwards, Kate Hammond Fogarty, James A. Garfield, Randall Henry Hewitt, Oliver O. Howard, Thomas Francis Meagher, George Miles, Henry Plummer, J.E. Rickards, John S. Rockfellow, and D.W. Tilton. The manuscripts also pertain to the following subjects: Bozeman, Butte, Virginia City, Madison County, Silver Bow County, Beaverhead County, mining, Montana political campaigns, Herschel Mining Company, and Montana Indian treaties for the Blackfeet, Blood, Assiniboine, Gros Ventre, and Piegan tribes. The papers of Randall Henry Hewitt include a substantial portion of his original manuscript for Across the Plains and Over the Divide published in 1906. Photographs include copy prints and original images of Butte, Virginia City, Missoula, and Pioneer City, Mont.; photographs of original paintings and drawings by Frederic Remington and Charles Russell; and lithograph illustrations of Montana scenes taken from an unidentified publication.

2.2 linear ft.

Montana State University (Bozeman, Mont.). Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6863734

Montana State University (Bozeman, Mont.). Library

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