Norma Smith papers, 1895-2000.

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Norma Smith papers, 1895-2000.

Research material compiled by Smith in writing her manuscript on Jeannette Rankin, including photocopies of Jeannette Rankin correspondence throughout her career, Smith's research notes and bibliographic material, research correspondence, correspondence with Jeannette Rankin and her personal secretary, Reita Rivers, notes from Smith's interviews with Rankin as well as copies of other interviews, and clippings; together with personal papers, other research material, family history research, and photographs of Jeannette Rankin and her home in Georgia and pictures of Smith's family.

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Montana State University (Bozeman, Mont.)

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The Montana State Rodeo team was founded as a student club by four men intending to put on a contest for fellow MSC students in 1947. Eugene Pederson, Stuart Hauptmann, Bob Chambers, and Ralph Nichols took their ideas to the college agriculture (or "Little International) club and got $100 in sponsorship money. Those funds went towards repairing the Fairgrounds plumbing to make it usable for the public. Donations from stock contractor Rich Richter and dude rancher Buck Chenny gave the group enoug...

Rankin, Jeannette, 1880-1973

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Jeannette Pickering Rankin (June 11, 1880 – May 18, 1973) was an American politician and women's rights advocate, and the first woman to hold federal office in the United States. She was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican from Montana in 1916, and again in 1940. Rankin graduated from the University of Montana in 1902. She subsequently attended the New York School of Philanthropy (later the New York, then the Columbia, School of Social Work) before embarking on a care...

Rivers, Reita

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Smith, Norma, 1913-2001

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Norma Smith was born on 1 Mar. 1913 in Mohler, Idaho. She graduated from the University of Idaho with a degree in journalism in 1933. Smith lived in Bozeman from 1950 until 1967. During that time she completed her master's degree in history, graduating in 1961 from Montana State College. She worked as a secretary, social worker, newspaper reporter, editor, and free lance writer having published some poetry in the Saturday Evening Post. She married Louis De Smith and they had three children. She ...