Sandra K. Woodruff letters, 1976-1984

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Sandra K. Woodruff letters, 1976-1984

This collection consists of typescripts of letter (1976-1984) to Ms. Woodruff from Grant Higgins and Walt McDonald discussing family history, including stories of the Higgins family of Missoula, and of the intertwining of the families of the Scottish McDonalds and the Salish tribe.

.2 linear ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7791245

Montana Historical Society Library

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Higgins, Grant, 1894-1978

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Higgins, Christopher P., 1830-1889

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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 PerceĢ 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, Walter, 1910-1992.

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Woodruff, Sandra L.

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