William Wirt Pendergast diary, 1895 June 17-21
Table of Contents
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Pendergast, William Wirt, 1833-1903
- Title
- William Wirt Pendergast diary
- Dates
- 1895 June 17-21 (inclusive)1895-06-171895-06-21
- Quantity
- 1 volume
- Collection Number
- 2485, Collection 2485, MtBC, us (collection)
- Summary
- William and Abbie Pendergast were Minnesota resident who visited Yellowstone National Park. His diary consists of several pages of entries kept within A. B. Guptill's (St. Paul: F. Jay Haynes, 1894). The brief entries describe the vacation trip of William and Abbie as they leave Hutchinson and visit Yellowstone National Park in 1895.
- 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
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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
Historical Note
William Wirt Pendergast was born in New England in 1833. After attending Bowdoin College in Maine, he joined with the Hutchinson brothers to plat a town in Minnesota Territory by the same name. Pendergast returned to Massachusetts sometime before the end of the Civil War where he married Abigail Cogswell. The couple had a son, Edward, in 1864 and two years later returned to Hutchinson, Minnesota where William began a career in education. William eventually became the first principal of the University of Minnesota's two-year agriculture school and finished his career as the state Superintendent of Schools. He died in 1903.
Content Description
The Pendergast diary consists of several pages of entries kept within A. B. Guptill's Yellowstone Park Guide; A Practical Handbook (St. Paul: F. Jay Haynes, 1894). The brief entries describe the vacation trip of William and Abbie as they leave Hutchinson and visit Yellowstone National Park in 1895. They left their hometown on June 17, making stops in Mandan, Livingston, and Cinnabar on the train before boarding a Tally-ho stage to Mammoth Hot Springs. While in the Park the couple visited: the Norris Geyser Basin; the Lower Geyser Basin; the Upper Geyser basin including Old Faithful, Castle, and Riverside Geysers; Mammoth and Fountain Hotels.
Use of the Collection
Preferred Citation
[Creator Name], [Date of Creation], [Brief Description of Object], Folder [#], Box [#], [Collection Name], [Collection #], Montana State University (MSU) Library, Bozeman, MT
Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
The diary created by William Wirt Pendergast was removed from Collection 1505 for separate processing in March, 2006.
Processing Note
This collection was processed 2009 May 28
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Geysers
- Tourists--Yellowstone National Park--Diaries
Personal Names
- Guptill, A. B. (Albert Brewer), 1854-1931--Yellowstone Park Guide
- Pendergast, Abigail Cogswell
Geographical Names
- Montana
- Montana--Description and travel
- Yellowstone National Park
Form or Genre Terms
- Diaries
- Diaries
- Diaries--Yellowstone National Park
