Jacob L. Peterson letters, 1888-1897

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Jacob L. Peterson letters, 1888-1897

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Collection consists of letters from Jacob L. Peterson, a Meagher County sheep herder, to his nephew Rufus Sublett, describing his life on a sheep ranch and one year prospecting around western Montana and Idaho. Collection consists of letters from Jacob L. Peterson, a Meagher County sheep herder, to his nephew Rufus Sublett, describing his life on a sheep ranch and one year prospecting around western Montana and Idaho.

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Peterson, Jacob

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Jacob L. Peterson was born in Hickory, North Carolina, on October 18, 1852, the son of John and Hannah Peterson. He arrived in Montana in the late 1870s and worked for a time in a coal mine east of Bozeman. He spent most of his life in Montana herding sheep near Martinsdale in Meagher County. He may have spent a year in Helena in 1890 as a blacksmith. During 1895 and 1896 he spent considerable time prospecting around Western Montana and Idaho. Jacob's older sister Emily married John Sublett and ...