Collection of papers related to Montana, 1833-1934.

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Collection of papers related to Montana, 1833-1934.

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Collection contains correspondence to and from William Andrews Clark, Thomas Francis Meagher, Wilbur F. Sanders, and Charles N. Kessler. The Kessler papers (series 2) make up the bulk of the collection. Manuscripts include mining claim location notices, legal documents, drawings in pencil and wash, a letter by Maximilian, Prince of Wied, and a ledger kept by James and Granville Stuart. Another ledger of Granville Stuart's provides a vocabulary of the Snake dialects. Other items include a Wells Fargo passenger register (1868), eighteen monthly ledger sheets of the Montana Central Railway, and an album of ninety-three signatures of members of the Montana constitutional convention. Subjects covered in the collection include the Blackfeet Indians, Kessler Beer, Fisk expeditions, Battle of Little Bighorn, Northern Pacific Railroad Co., mining, Joseph and Alexander Culbertson, and the Cook-Folsom exploration of the Upper Yellowstone Valley.

549 items.

University of California, Los Angeles

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SNAC Resource ID: 7425158

University of California, Los Angeles

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Kessler, Charles N. (Charles Nickolas), 1874-1957

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Charles Nickolas Kessler was born on 7 July 1874 in Montana to Nickolas Kessler and Louisa Ebert. In 1891 he began working at his father's Montana brewery. He later attended a Chicago school where he was involved in the pioneering of scientific brewing methods. He graduated from the school in 1895 after which he returned to Montana and assumed the presidency of the brewery. He was an officer and founding member of the United States Brewers Association and was actively involved in the anti-prohib...

Clark, William Andrews, 1839-1925

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Meagher, Thomas Francis, 1823-1867

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Irish-American soldier. From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to Horace Greeley, 1856 May 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270637287 Army officer and governor of Montana (Territory) From the description of Papers of Thomas Francis Meagher, 1859-1865. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79454424 Irish revolutionary sentenced to death in 1848. After escaping to the United States, he became editor of the Irish News. He served the Union in...

Sanders, Wilbur Fisk, 1834-1905

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Wilbur Fisk Sanders was born in Leon, New York on May 2, 1834. He began his career as a school teacher in New York and Ohio where, in 1856, he completed his training as an attorney. Sanders served as a first lieutenant in the Sixty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the early years of the Civil War and, in 1863, joined the rush to the gold fields of Bannack and Virginia City in what would later become Montana Territory. He was active during the vigilante activity of 1864, and afterwards pract...

Stuart, Granville, 1834-1918

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Granville Stuart was born August 27, 1834, in Clarksburg, Harrison County, Virginia, to Robert Stuart and Nancy Currence Hall. He was the second of five children. Stuart left Iowa in 1852 with his brother James to seek a fortune in the gold fields of California. They traveled with their father, Robert Stuart, from the American Valley (Quincy) to Bidwell Bar, then on through Morris Ravine near Cherokee, finally arriving at Sam Neal's ranch near present-day Durham. He and his brother moved up the ...