Interviewer
Kathryn P. "Kathy" White
Files
Description
Sophie Guthrie describes her family’s move to Montana, and the homestead her father built while her mother took care of seven children alone. She recalls attending school in Bozeman and taking care of her sister’s two children. Guthrie talks about moving onto one of the Native American reservations in Montana [likely the Crow Reservation] in 1895 after her father died. She reminisces about delivering mail on horseback and getting married. Guthrie discusses the lack of birth control available to women at that time, her experience giving birth and how women were expected to behave during this time. She ends with how she came to own the post office in Reed Point, Montana.
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Document Type
Oral History
Subjects
Post offices, Montana; Big Timber, Montana; Women’s suffrage, Montana; Women’s Club, Montana; Guthrie, Sophie J., 1882-1979 – Interviews; Women -- Montana – Interviews; Women -- Montana -- Social conditions – History; Education -- Montana -- Bozeman -- History -- 19th century; Contraceptives -- History -- 19th century; Childbirth at home -- Montana -- History -- 19th century -- Personal narratives; Childbirth at home -- Montana -- History -- 20th century -- Personal narratives; Sex instruction for women -- History -- 19th century; Reedpoint (Mont.) – History; Women postal service employees -- Montana -- Reedpoint – Interviews; Postmasters -- Montana -- Reedpoint – Interviews; Bozeman (Mont.) -- History -- 19th century; Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) -- 19th century -- Personal narratives; Frontier and pioneer life -- Montana -- Bozeman -- 19th century -- Personal narratives; Land settlement -- Montana -- Crow Reservation -- 19th century; Marriage -- Montana -- 19th century -- Personal narratives; Rural families -- Montana -- 19th century – Biography; Rural families -- Montana -- 20th century – Biography; Horseback mail; Greycliff (Mont.)
Original Date
8-1976
Time Period
Twentieth century
Geographic Coverage
Montana
Language
eng
Original Collection
Montana Women's Oral History Project, OH 049, 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 049-020, 021
Media Type
Sound; Text
Original Format
2 sound cassettes (02:00:00 min.) analog + 1 transcript (30 p.: 28 cm.)
Digital Format
audio/mp3; application/pdf
Run Time
01:24:41 minutes
Local Filename
OH_049_020_021.mp3; OH_049_020_021.pdf
Citation
Guthrie, Sophie, "Sophie Guthrie Interview, August 1976" (1976). Montana Women's Oral History Project. 7.
https://scholarworks.umt.edu/mtwomen_oralhistory/7