Angus and Catherine McDonald papers, 1858-1899.

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Angus and Catherine McDonald papers, 1858-1899.

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The manuscript consists of stories told by Catherine to her children and written down by Angus. According to James Hunter in Scottish Highlanders, Indian Peoples, it was custom among her people to tell stories that featured events in which she had been involved. Angus apparently carried around a ledger to record these stories, which he embellished with his own literary style. However, the story content is regarded as Catherine's own. The book contains both stories and poems; some are incomplete, and there are pages missing from the book. The book also contains marks and penmanship exercises in a child's hand. In addition, there is a sheath of typescript transcripts in the back. Handwriting and circumstance suggest that these are the papers of Winona Adams, a librarian at the State University of Montana (now the University of Montana--Missoula) who published an edited version of one of the stories in the Frontier and Midland in 1930.

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McDonald, Catherine, 1815-1902

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Angus McDonald was born in Scotland in 1816, and came to Fort Colville in what is now the state of Washington in the fall of 1839 as a trader for the Hudson's Bay Company. He went to Fort Hall in what is now Idaho in 1840. In 1842, he married a Nez Percé woman, Catherine, at Fort Hall; their marriage was solemnized by a Jesuit missionary in 1854. They had twelve children between 1845 and 1871: Duncan, John Christina, Donald, Anne, Margaret, Thomas, Alexander, Archibald, Joseph, Angus Colville, ...

McDonald, Angus, 1816-1889

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Angus McDonald was born in Scotland in 1816, and came to Fort Colville in what is now the state of Washington in the fall of 1839 as a trader for the Hudson's Bay Company. He went to Fort Hall in what is now Idaho in 1840. In 1842, he married a Nez Percé woman, Catherine, at Fort Hall; their marriage was solemnized by a Jesuit missionary in 1854. They had twelve children between 1845 and 1871: Duncan, John Christina, Donald, Anne, Margaret, Thomas, Alexander, Archibald, Joseph, Angus Colville, ...

Adams, Winona

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McDonald family.

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