MZFCollection0796.xml Guide to the Mark L. Lovell ManuscriptUndated Mark L. Lovell Manuscript Kim Allen Scott, 2018 Montana State University-Bozeman Library
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Finding aid written in English Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard, 2nd Edition) Montana State University-Bozeman Library, Merrill G Burlingame Special Collections
P.O. Box 173320 Bozeman, MT 59717-3320 United States Phone (406) 994-4242 Fax (406) 994-2851 http://www.lib.montana.edu/archives/ University Archivist spcoll@www.lib.montana.edu
Collection 0796, MtBC, us Lovell, Mark Lloyd Mark L. Lovell Manuscript Undated 1 reel microfilm The Mark L. Lovell Manuscript is an undated microfilmed hand-written document that is primarily a fictional account of life along the Montana-North Dakota border country around 1909. Beach is the setting for some of the narrative, along with the Badlands. Some of the story concerns a tractor salesman from an eastern school who comes to the area for business. Buffalo hunting and farming are other topics covered. Collection materials are in English Biographical Note

Mark Lloyd Lovell was born on May 4, 1883 in North Dakota. He attended the University of North Dakota as a young man and received a degree in engineering. Lovell went to Cornell University in Ithaca, New York where he served briefly as an instructor in the university’s Sibley College. He returned to North Dakota and took up residence in Beach where he worked as a municipal engineer. He married Lida Isabel Rutherford on June 25, 1907 and the couple had seven children. Lovell died in Beach on September 4, 1962.

The Lovell manuscript is an undated microfilmed hand-written document that is primarily a fictional account of life along the Montana-North Dakota border country around 1909. Beach is the setting for some of the narrative, along with the Badlands. Some of the story concerns a tractor salesman from an eastern school who comes to the area for business. Buffalo hunting and farming are other topics covered. The manuscript was never titled and never published.

This collection is open for research.

An original handwritten manuscript by Mark Lloyd Lovell was loaned to the Montana State University Library for microfilming by Alan Bruce Lovell, the author’s grandson, in 1968. The material was returned to the donor in 1969.

This collection was processed 2018 June 28

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