Alexander Leggat collection, 1864-1964.

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Alexander Leggat collection, 1864-1964.

Personal papers, collected manuscripts, and photographs.

2.2 linear ft.

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Leggat, Alexander, 1876-1961

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Alexander Leggat was a Butte, Montana mining engineer, hotel owner, and collector of western Americana. He was born in Owasso, Michigan, on December 22, 1876, to John A. Leggat and his wife, Claribel Ament Leggat. He came to Butte, Montana with his mother in 1880 and attended public schools in Butte, graduating from the Butte High School in 1894. He next attended the college of Montana at Deer Lodge, and also the Michigan School of Mines in Houghton. He worked as a mining engineer in Montana and...