MZFCollection2611.xml Guide to the Eugene Smith Fishing Diaries1997-2003 Eugene Smith Fishing Diaries Kim Allen Scott, 2016 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
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 2611, MtBC, us Smith, Eugene, 1927- Eugene Smith Fishing Diaries 1997-2003 .4 linear feet The Eugene Smith Fishing Diaries consists of seven fishing journals Eugene kept from 1997-2003 describing river conditions, gear, flies, weather, and catch on several rivers in the greater Bozeman area. Collection materials are in English Biographical Note

Eugene Smith was born in 1927 in David City, Nebraska. He worked as a Foreign Student Advisor at University of Colorado, Boulder before moving to Bozeman with his wife, author Phyllis Smith, in 1988. Eugene has spent more than 80 years angling across the US and nearly 30 fishing the rivers around his home in Bozeman.

The collection consists of seven fishing journals Eugene kept from 1997-2003 describing river conditions, gear, flies, weather, and catch on several rivers in the greater Bozeman area.

This collection is open for research.

Seven handwritten fishing diaries and fifty-eight volumes on fishing were donated to Montana State University by Eugene Smith of Bozeman, Montana on October 9, 2015. The volumes were separated for item level cataloging.

This collection was processed 2016 December 27

 Environmental Conditions Fishing and Canning Sports and Recreation Bozeman Montana Diaries 1 Fishing diaries 1997-2003