Identity area
Reference code
P/P155/7/1/3
Title
Research on the Irish in Anaconda and Butte, Montana and the West
Date(s)
- 1986-2016 (Creation)
Level of description
Sub-series
Extent and medium
180pp
Context area
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Documents pertaining to Kerby A. Miller's research on early Irish emigration in Montana, with particular emphasis on Anaconda, Montana as Hugh O'Daly settled there from County Monaghan. The collection contains census and demographic research, research correspondence, and annotated bibliographic entries for a number of texts related to the history of early immigration, labour, socialism, and the Irish in Montana and the American West. Also included are copies of 'The Orange and the Green in Montana: A Reconsideration of the Clark-Daly Feud' by David Emmons (1986), and sections of Meet Joe Cooper: Masculinity and Race on Montana's World War II Home Front by Matthew Basso (University of Chicago Press, 2013).