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Gallatin County Bicentennial oral histories, 1974-1976

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Gallatin County Bicentennial Oral History Project
Title
Gallatin County Bicentennial oral histories
Dates
1974-1976 (inclusive)
Quantity
2 linear feet
Collection Number
1146, Collection 1146 (collection)
Summary
The Gallatin County Bicentennial Oral History Project Collection consists of eighty-three tape recorded interviews with senior citizens of Bozeman and Gallatin County. The topics cover a wide variety of historical subjects including: agriculture, amusements, business, industry, merchants, churches, communications, education, electrical power, ethnic groups, the Depression, homemaking, immigrants, Native Americans, medicine, Montana State College, organizations, frontier and pioneer life, politics and government, prominent families, religion, social life and customs, Spanish American War, transportation, weather and natural disasters, World War I, and World War II. Places mentioned Belgrade, Bozeman, Bridger Canyon, Chestnut, Churchill, Gallatin Canyon, Manhattan, Salesville, Springhill, Three Forks, and Yellowstone National Park.
Repository
Montana State University Library, Merrill G. Burlingame Special Collections
Montana State University-Bozeman Library
Merrill G Burlingame Special Collections
P.O. Box 173320
Bozeman, MT
59717-3320
Telephone: 4069944242
Fax: 4069942851
Access Restrictions

This collection is open for research.

Languages
Collection materials are in English
Sponsor
Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
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Historical Note

The Project on Oral history began in 1974 as an officially sanctioned activity of the Gallatin County Bicentennial Committee. Directed by Lee Ann Cooper, the project produced eighty-three tape recorded interviews with senior citizens of Bozeman and Gallatin County. At the end of the project the interview summaries were collated and indexed and a printed guide published giving subject access to the various interviews. The original summary sheets were photocopied on unstable liquid toner stock and were transcribed by the staff of Montana State University during the spring and summer of 1999. Most of the interviews were conducted by high school students in Gallatin County, and the few interview transcripts produced were composed by volunteers.

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Content Description

The interviews cover a wide variety of historical subjects including: agriculture, amusements, business, industry, merchants, churches, communications, education, electrical power, ethnic groups, the Depression, homemaking, immigrants, Native Americans, medicine, Montana State College, organizations, frontier and pioneer life, politics and government, prominent families, religion, social life and customs, Spanish American War, transportation, weather and natural disasters, World War I, and World War II. Places mentioned Belgrade, Bozeman, Bridger Canyon, Chestnut, Churchill, Gallatin Canyon, Manhattan, Salesville, Springhill, Three Forks, and Yellowstone National Park.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

The interview summaries and transcriptions have been placed in alphabetical order in box one, with the tapes arranged the same way in boxes 2-5. Those interview summaries which have transcriptions have been placed together in their own folder and so indicated.

Acquisition Information

Original tape recorded interviews, interview summary sheets, and interview transcriptions gathered by the Gallatin County Bicentennial Oral History Project were donated to Montana State University on April 23, 1976 by Lee Ann Cooper, project director.

Processing Note

This collection was processed 2009 March 6

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Detailed Description of the Collection

  • Description: Subject index
    Container: Box 1, Folder 1
  • Description: Don Anderson, Les Anderson, Frank Austin, Mabel Ballantyne, Clarence Bartlett, Eida Benson, Seth Bohart, Merrill Burlingame, Lawrence Christie
    Container: Box 1, Folder 2
  • Description: Berg Clark, interview summary and transcript
    Container: Box 1, Folder 3
  • Description: Joseph Clawson, Mary Cloninger, Helen Creasy, Alfred K. Dahl, Paul Davidson, Wylie Davis, Elsie DeJong, Ina Denton
    Container: Box 1, Folder 4
  • Description: Della Doyle, interview summary and transcript
    Container: Box 1, Folder 5
  • Description: Isabelle Durnam, Ray and Orrie Fields, Marie Flaherty, Jayne Forsythe, Mabel Fuller
    Container: Box 1, Folder 6
  • Description: Wanda Gau, Margaret Gee, Tony Grace, Alonzo B. Hadley, Aubrey Haines, Peter Hansen, Carl Haun, Dee Brenamen Hecht, Otis Hoekema
    Container: Box 1, Folder 7
  • Description: Ed Iverson, Ruth Jenkins, Bernidine Johnson, Sam Johnson, Roy Keister, Walt Kertzenmacher, Paul Kraai, Ora Michener Lemon, Stanley Lemon, Art Lenehan, Violet Lilly
    Container: Box 1, Folder 8
  • Description: Einar Lindvig, interview summary and transcript
    Container: Box 1, Folder 9
  • Description: Regina Lindvig, interview summary and transcript
    Container: Box 1, Folder 10
  • Description: Art Lockhart, Nellie Lutovsky, Jessie Marsh, Eleanor Mast #1, Eleanor Mast #2, Jake Mast
    Container: Box 1, Folder 11
  • Description: Mrs. Thomas Morgan, interview summary and transcript
    Container: Box 1, Folder 12
  • Description: Thelma Multz, Frank Murray, Betty Eagle Nelson, Ole Oma, Dorothy Paugh
    Container: Box 1, Folder 13
  • Description: John C. Paugh, interview summary and transcript
    Container: Box 1, Folder 14
  • Description: Elizabeth Purdum, Herkles Rightenour, Vivian Rightenour, Sally Riley, Gerald Schapper
    Container: Box 1, Folder 15
  • Description: Bob Ross, interview summary and transcript
    Container: Box 1, Folder 16
  • Description: Rudolph Schutter, interview summary and transcript
    Container: Box 1, Folder 17
  • Description: George Sinton, Neil Staebler, Nora Stuart, Walt Stuart, George Stublar, Margaret Thorsen, Three Forks Library Gathering, Willabelle Tonn, Leeta Townsend, Dorothy Vick
    Container: Box 1, Folder 18
  • Description: Helen Walker, interview summary and transcript
    Container: Box 1, Folder 19
  • Description: Alf Walton, Nora Weaver, Mabel Weinrich, Vera Wilcox, Floyd Wilson
    Container: Box 1, Folder 20
  • Description: Anderson, Don
    Container: Box 2, Cassette 1
  • Description: Anderson, Les
    Container: Box 2, Cassette 2
  • Description: Austin, Frank
    Container: Box 2, Cassette 3
  • Description: Ballantyne, Mabel
    Container: Box 2, Cassette 4
  • Description: Bartlett, Clarence
    Container: Box 2, Cassette 5
  • Description: Benson, Eida
    Container: Box 2, Cassette 6
  • Description: Bohart, Seth
    Container: Box 2, Cassette 7
  • Description: Boylan, Margaret
    Container: Box 2, Cassette 8
  • Description: Burlingame, Merrill
    Container: Box 2, Cassette 9
  • Description: Christie, Lawrence
    Container: Box 2, Cassette 10
  • Description: Clark, Berg
    Container: Box 2, Cassette 10
  • Description: Clawson, Joseph W.
    Container: Box 2, Cassette 11
  • Description: Cloninger, Mary
    Container: Box 2, Cassette 12
  • Description: Creasy, Helen
    Container: Box 2, Cassette 13
  • Description: Dahl, Alfred K.
    Container: Box 2, Cassette 14
  • Description: Davidson, Paul
    Container: Box 2, Cassette 15
  • Description: Davis, Wylie
    Container: Box 2, Cassette 16
  • Description: Dejong, Elsie
    Container: Box 2, Cassette 17
  • Description: Denton, Ina
    Container: Box 3, Cassette 1
  • Description: Doyle, Della
    Container: Box 3, Cassette 2
  • Description: Durnam, Isabelle
    Container: Box 3, Cassette 3
  • Description: Fields, Ray and Orrie
    Container: Box 3, Cassette 4
  • Description: Flaherty, Marie
    Container: Box 3, Cassette 5
  • Description: Forsythe, Jane
    Container: Box 3, Cassette 6
  • Description: Fuller, Mabel
    Container: Box 3, Cassette 7
  • Description: Gau, Wanda
    Container: Box 3, Cassette 8
  • Description: Gee, Margaret
    Container: Box 3, Cassette 9
  • Description: Grace, Tony
    Container: Box 3, Cassette 10
  • Description: Hadley, Alonzo
    Container: Box 3, Cassette 11
  • Description: Haines, Aubrey
    Container: Box 3, Cassette 12
  • Description: Hansen, Peter
    Container: Box 3, Cassette 13
  • Description: Haun, Carl
    Container: Box 3, Cassette 14
  • Description: Hecht, Dee Brenamen
    Container: Box 3, Cassette 15
  • Description: Hoekema, Otis
    Container: Box 3, Cassette 16
  • Description: Iverson, Ed
    Container: Box 3, Cassette 17
  • Description: Jenkins, Ruth
    Container: Box 3, Cassette 18
  • Description: Johnson, Bernidine
    Container: Box 3, Cassette 19
  • Description: Johnson, Sam
    Container: Box 4, Cassette 1
  • Description: Keister, Roy
    Container: Box 4, Cassette 2
  • Description: Kerzenmacher, Walt
    Container: Box 4, Cassette 3
  • Description: Kraai, Pearl
    Container: Box 4, Cassette 4
  • Description: Lemon, Ora/Thornsen Margaret (on same cassette)
    Container: Box 4, Cassette 5
  • Description: Lemon, Stanley
    Container: Box 4, Cassette 6
  • Description: Lenehan, Art
    Container: Box 4, Cassette 7
  • Description: Lilly, Violet
    Container: Box 4, Cassette 8
  • Description: Lindvig, Einar
    Container: Box 4, Cassette 9
  • Description: Lindvig, Regina
    Container: Box 4, Cassette 10
  • Description: Lockhart, Art
    Container: Box 4, Cassette 11
  • Description: Lutovsky, Nellie
    Container: Box 4, Cassette 12
  • Description: Marsh, Jessie
    Container: Box 4, Cassette 13
  • Description: Mast, Eleanor #1
    Container: Box 4, Cassette 14
  • Description: Mast, Eleanor #2
    Container: Box 4, Cassette 15
  • Description: Mast, Jake
    Container: Box 4, Cassette 16
  • Description: Morgan, Mrs. Thomas
    Container: Box 4, Cassette 17
  • Description: Multz, Thelma
    Container: Box 4, Cassette 18
  • Description: Murray, Frank
    Container: Box 4, Cassette 19
  • Description: Nelson, Betty Eagle
    Container: Box 4, Cassette 20
  • Description: Oma, Ole
    Container: Box 4, Cassette 21
  • Description: Paugh, Dorothy
    Container: Box 4, Cassette 22
  • Description: Paugh, John C.
    Container: Box 4, Cassette 23
  • Description: Purdum, Elizabeth
    Container: Box 4, Cassette 24
  • Description: Rightenour, Herkles
    Container: Box 5, Cassette 1
  • Description: Rightenour, Vivian
    Container: Box 5, Cassette 2
  • Description: Riley, Sally
    Container: Box 5, Cassette 3
  • Description: Ross, Bob
    Container: Box 5, Cassette 4
  • Description: Schapper, Gerald
    Container: Box 5, Cassette 5
  • Description: Schutter, Rudolph
    Container: Box 5, Cassette 6
  • Description: Sinton, George
    Container: Box 5, Cassette 7
  • Description: Staebler, Neil
    Container: Box 5, Cassette 8
  • Description: Stuart, Nora
    Container: Box 5, Cassette 9
  • Description: Stuart, Walt
    Container: Box 5, Cassette 10
  • Description: Stublar, George
    Container: Box 5, Cassette 11
  • Description: Thorsen, Margaret
    Container: Box 5, Cassette 12
  • Description: Three Forks Library Gathering
    Container: Box 5, Cassette 13
  • Description: Tonn, Willabelle
    Container: Box 5, Cassette 14
  • Description: Townsend, Leeta
    Container: Box 5, Cassette 15
  • Description: Vick, Dorothy
    Container: Box 5, Cassette 16
  • Description: Walker, Helen
    Container: Box 5, Cassette 17
  • Description: Walton, Alf
    Container: Box 5, Cassette 18
  • Description: Weaver, Nora
    Container: Box 5, Cassette 19
  • Description: Weinrich, Mabel
    Container: Box 5, Cassette 20
  • Description: Wilcox, Vera
    Container: Box 5, Cassette 21
  • Description: Wilson, Floyd
    Container: Box 5, Cassette 22
  • Description: Digitized audiotapes
    Container: Box 5, Compact disc 1

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Subject Terms

  • Agriculture-Montana-Gallatin County-History
  • American Revolution Bicentennial, 1776-1976-Montana-Gallatin County
  • Amusements-Montana-Gallatin County-History
  • Associations, institutions, etc. -Montana-Gallatin County-History
  • Business enterprises-Montana-Gallatin County-History
  • Communication-Montana-Gallatin County-History
  • Depressions-1929-Montana-Gallatin County-Personal narratives
  • Education-Montana-Gallatin County-History
  • Electric power-Montana-Gallatin County-History
  • Ethnic groups-Montana-Gallatin County-History
  • Frontier and pioneer life--Montana--Gallatin County
  • Homemakers-Montana-Gallatin County-Interviews
  • Immigrants-Montana-Gallatin County-History
  • Indians of North America-Montana-Gallatin County-History
  • Medicine-Practice of-Montana-Gallatin County-History
  • Merchants-Montana-Gallatin County
  • Natural disasters-Montana-Gallatin County-History
  • Older people-Montana-Gallatin County-Interviews
  • Spanish American War, 1898-Personal narratives, American
  • Transportation-Montana-Gallatin County-History
  • World War, 1914-1918-Personal narratives, American
  • World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American

Personal Names

  • Anderson, Don, interviewee
  • Anderson, Lee, interviewee
  • Austin, Frank, interviewee
  • Ballantyne, Mabel, interviewee
  • Bartlett, Clarence, interviewee
  • Benson, Eida, interviewee
  • Bohart, Seth, interviewee
  • Burlingame, Merrill G. (Merrill Gildea), 1901-1994, interviewee
  • Christie, Lawrence, interviewee
  • Clark, Berg, interviewee
  • Clawson, Joseph, interviewee
  • Cloninger, Mary, interviewee
  • Creasy, Helen, interviewee
  • Dahl, Alfred K., interviewee
  • Davidson, Paul, interviewee
  • Davis, Wylie, interviewee
  • Dejong, Elsie, interviewee
  • Denton, Ina, interviewee
  • Doyle, Della, interviewee
  • Durnam, Isabelle, interviewee
  • Fields, Orrie, interviewee
  • Fields, Ray, interviewee
  • Flaherty, Marie, interviewee
  • Forsythe, Jayne, interviewee
  • Fuller, Mabel, interviewee
  • Gau, Wanda, interviewee
  • Gee, Margaret, interviewee
  • Grace, Tony, interviewee
  • Hadley, Alonzo B., interviewee
  • Haines, Aubrey L., interviewee
  • Hansen, Peter, interviewee
  • Haun, Carl, interviewee
  • Hecht, Dee Breneman, interviewee
  • Hoekema, Otis, interviewee
  • Iverson, Ed, interviewee
  • Jenkins, Ruth, interviewee
  • Johnson, Bernidine, interviewee
  • Johnson, Sam, interviewee
  • Keister, Roy, interviewee
  • Kertzenmacher, Walt, interviewee
  • Lemon, Ora Michener, interviewee
  • Lemon, Stanley, interviewee
  • Lenehan, Art, interviewee
  • Lilly, Violet, interviewee
  • Lindvig, Einar, interviewee
  • Lindvig, Regina, interviewee
  • Lockhart, Art, interviewee
  • Lutovsky, Nellie, interviewee
  • Marsh, Jessie, interviewee
  • Mast, Eleanor, interviewee
  • Mast, Jake, interviewee
  • Morgan, Thomas, Mrs., interviewee
  • Multz, Thelma, interviewee
  • Murray, Frank, interviewee
  • Nelson, Betty Eagle, interviewee
  • Oma, Ole, interviewee
  • Paugh, Dorothy, interviewee
  • Paugh, John C., interviewee
  • Purdum, Elizabeth, interviewee
  • Rightenour, Eleanor, interviewee
  • Rightenour, Herkles, interviewee
  • Riley, Sally, interviewee
  • Ross, Bob, interviewee
  • Schapper, Gerald, interviewee
  • Schutter, Rudolph, interviewee
  • Sinton, George, interviewee
  • Staebler, Neil, interviewee
  • Stuart, Nora, interviewee
  • Stuart, Walt, interviewee
  • Stublar, George, interviewee
  • Thorsen, Margaret, interviewee
  • Tonn, Willabelle, interviewee
  • Townsend, Leeta, interviewee
  • Vick, Dorothy, 1914--interviewee
  • Walker, Helen, interviewee
  • Walton, Alf, interviewee
  • Weaver, Nora, interviewee
  • Weinrich, Mabel, interviewee
  • Wilcox, Vera, interviewee
  • Wilson, Floyd, interviewee

Corporate Names

  • Montana State College-History

Geographical Names

  • Belgrade (Mont.)
  • Bozeman (Mont.)
  • Bridger Canyon (Mont.)
  • Chestnut (Mont.)
  • Churchill (Mont.)
  • Gallatin Canyon (Mont.)
  • Gallatin County (Mont.)-Church history
  • Gallatin County (Mont.)-Climate
  • Gallatin County (Mont.)-Commerce-History
  • Gallatin County (Mont.)-Economic conditions-20th century
  • Gallatin County (Mont.)-History
  • Gallatin County (Mont.)-Politics and government
  • Gallatin County (Mont.)-Religious life and customs
  • Gallatin County (Mont.)-Social life and customs
  • Gallatin Gateway (Mont.)
  • Manhattan (Mont.)
  • Salesville (Mont.)
  • Springhill (Mont.)
  • Three Forks (Mont.)
  • Yellowstone National Park

Form or Genre Terms

  • Oral histories-Montana-Bozeman
  • Oral histories-Montana-Gallatin County

Kim Allen Scott, 2009; Jodi Allison-Bunnell
2022

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