Box 4
Container
Contains 13 Results:
South Dakota, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, 1893-1894
File — Box: 4, Volume: 13
Identifier: II
Scope and Contents
After finishing the term teaching in Minnesota, Douglass returned to the South Dakota Agricultural College in Brookings. He was expelled from the school and continued his education at Iowa State College in Ames, earning his B.S. in 1893. He accepted a teaching position after graduation in the lower Madison Valley, Montana, where he was able to go fossil hunting.
1 January 1893--"I am sorry to say that I never...
Dates:
1893-1894
Montana, 1895-1896
File — Box: 4, Volume: 14
Identifier: II
Scope and Contents
Douglass taught school in several locations, but his primary interest was in collecting fossil specimens.
21 April 1895--"I found just above a little clay rock exposure some small pieces of bones and teeth. I picked them up and concluded by the fragments that they were Rhinoceros teeth. Dug a little and found there were more bones there so went over to where my horse was and got pick. . . . and began to dig. I...
Dates:
1895-1896
Montana, 1899
File — Box: 4, Volume: 15
Identifier: II
Scope and Contents
Douglass received his M.S. degree from the University of Montana at Missoula, spent the summer on a fossil collecting expedition, and then worked for the university preparing the specimens collected on the expedition.
13 June--"Drove up to the University, getting there at just about the time appointed. I was called into the room where the faculty, board and class of '99 were. The class had on their college...
Dates:
1899