Scope and content: This collection consists primarily of photocopies of outgoing correspondence with Dan D. Casement of Manhattan, Kansas, discussing the cattle industry and operations. There are two incoming letters. Also includes a certificate of award from the Department of Agriculture (1924).; Wallis Huidekoper was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, on February 2, 1870. His father was a Major General in the Pennsylvania National Guard and a former Philadelphia postmaster. As a sixteen-year-old, Wallis spent a summer vacation on his cousin A.C. Huidekoper's ranch in North Dakota. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 1891, Huidekoper returned to his cousin's ranch, where he worked as a horse wrangler. In 1906 he left the North Dakota ranch and bought a ranch on the eastern slope of the Crazy Mountains in Montana. This ranch eventually grew to 33,280 acres on the American Fork of the Musselshell River. Huidekoper served under General Nelson Miles in a cavalry regiment in Puerto Rico during the Spanish American War. During World War I, he served in the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps, and rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. In addition to his ranching and military careers, Huidekoper was a book collector, a historical writer, and a collector of Charles M. Russell art. & L Wallis Huidekoper married Lillian Porter O'Brian in September 1906. She died in 1952 and he died October 26, 1956.
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Contributing Institution
Montana Historical Society Research Center
Digital Collection
Letters, Diaries and Documents from the Montana Historical Society
Digital Format
image/jp2
Physical Dimensions
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Description-Abstract
Wallis Huidekoper was a Two Dot, Montana, rancher. Papers consist of photocopies of outgoing letters (1939-1951) to Dan D. Casement, discussing the cattle industry and ranch operations.
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Letters, Diaries and Documents from the Montana Historical Society
