Interviewer
Paul Fugleberg
Files
Description
Mabel Holliday talks about growing up in various towns in Montana, including Silver Bow, Moiese, and Dixon. She recalls her father working for the Northern Pacific Railroad and explains that because of his job, her family moved around a lot. She discusses attending school in Silver Bow before the family moved onto a homestead in the Moiese Valley near Dixon, where she and her sister had to walk six miles to the nearest schoolhouse. Holliday talks about going to Northwestern Business College in Spokane, Washington, then getting a job with the U.S. Forest Service in Haugen, Montana, where she worked as a stenographer. Holliday describes her father’s death and its impact on her mother. She also talks about getting married in 1933, and moving with their two children to Anchorage, Alaska, where her husband was stationed during World War Two. She mentions living in fear of a Japanese invasion, and eventually being evacuated.
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Document Type
Oral History
Subjects
Silver Bow, Montana; Dixon, Montana: Moiese Valley: Homesteading; Northern Pacific Railroad; Section towns; U.S. Forest Service; World War, 1939-1945
Original Date
7-1993
Time Period
Twentieth century
Geographic Coverage
Montana
Language
eng
Original Collection
Settlers, Homesteaders, Ranchers, and Farmers Oral History Collection Archives and Special Collections, Mansfield Library, University of Montana-Missoula
Digital Publisher
University of Montana-Missoula. Mansfield Library
Rights
Copyright to this collection is held by the interview participants and by the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, University of Montana-Missoula. Permission may be required for use. For further information please contact Archives and Special Collections: (406) 243-2053 / library.archives@umontana.edu
Oral History Number
OH 300-001
Media Type
Sound; Text
Original Format
1 sound cassette (90 min.): analog + 1 transcript (21 p.: 28 cm.)
Digital Format
audio/mp3; application/pdf
Run Time
01:08:18 minutes
Local Filename
OH_300_001.mp3; OH_300_001.pdf
Citation
Peterson Holliday, Mabel Goldie, "Mabel Goldie Peterson Holliday Interview, July 1993" (1993). Montana Settlers, Homesteaders, Ranchers and Farmers Oral History Collection. 28.
https://scholarworks.umt.edu/mtsettlersandhomsteaders_oralhistory/28