RESOURCES

Irene Lake Anderson memories and family picture collection

Morris Bjorge memories of "The Schools on Irvine Flats." Scrapbook. Same as Ruth Kramer Guinard.

Marion A. Branson, Education Field Agent. "Report to Indian Office relative to Public Schools to which tuition is paid from federal funds for Indian Children" called The Flathead Indian Reservation Report of 1935 original report in photo album format and loaned by the First Presbyterian Church of Polson, the Rev. John Dutzar to the Polson Public Library. Copy negatives and prints owned by Lake County Country School Historians. "Glimpse of 1935 Schools Given in Old Scrapbook" article on the report in the Flathead Courier, September 13, 1979, pp. 14 and 15.

Jim Burton. Picture Collection and Memories of "School In Irvine Flats."

Jane Belknap Butkay. Notes to historians. Her mother, Florence Belknap, taught at Green Mountain two years from 1943 to 1945. Young Jane was sent in to Polson for school.

Clerk’s Board Meeting Minutes from September, 1943, and March 18, 1947 through July 26, 1948 from Clerk’s Record Book for Green Valley District #50.

"Country School Days Recalled by Reader" from the Flathead Courier, 1966.

Flathead Courier. "Spring Valley " Column. November 8, 1912; December 27, 1912; January 10, 1913, January 31, 1913.

Ida Jones Grund. Video Interview by Garden of Rockies Museum of Ronan, Montana. On loan via Hilbert Seines. School life and life on Irvine Flats including Cap Palmer story.

 

Ruth Kramer Guinard. "Green Mountain School, 1912-1922" Scrapbook prepared for the Miracle of American Museum. Includes "New Scrapbook Recalls Old School" article from the Lake County Leader, May 23, 1996 as well as comments from Yetive Hope Woody Cavanaugh regarding memories and the scrapbook. Numerous pictures of Ruth’s and some from Alden Beller, grandson of Emma Dorris.

 

Jack Heglie Collection of Irvine Pictures.

Joe Holman. "Schools of Irvine Flats" notes submitted to historians via Rex Merritt.

Mike Humphrey notes on valley rural schools for June 27, 1997 for the Lake County Country School Historians project. Video "Lake County School Project" Sept. 25, 1998 & "Radio Active" June 20, 1998 Video of the Radio area and Paul Smith family. Also Paul Smith Video -------.

J. F. McAlear as told to Sharon Bergman, THE FABULOUS FLATHEAD (Polson, Montana: Reservation Pioneers, Inc., 1962). "William Irvine" pp. 42-45. Chapter Eight "Traffic on Flathead Lake" City of Dixon information, pp. 76-78.

Rex Merritt brought in a map of the area and pinpointed The Log School and The Brown School/Spring Hill location and loaned his picture collection. He and Don Corrigan confirmed the locations of the four schools of Irvine Flats on the large 1923 County Map. Don’s mother, Gladys Liss, attended the school.

Miracle of America Museum Inc. Quarterly Newsletter. June 1995, September 1995.

Viola Jones Perkins. Memories of days at Green Mountain and Spring Valley. Currently living in Hot Springs. Telephone conversation December 30, 1999 with Joyce Decker Wegner.

Polson School District No. 23 School Board Minutes from 1945 to December,1951.

"Radio News Notes" column from the Flathead Courier, November 19, 1942.

REGISTER OF SCHOOL OFFICERS & TEACHERS and Individual Teacher Certificate Cards from the Office of the Lake County Superintendent of Schools.

Teacher’s Registers listing names, ages, grade in school, parents, attendance, and grades received for the years 1913 through 1922 are kept by the Polson Historical Museum. The Lake County Superintendent of Schools maintains a copy. Individual census/school records after 1923 are alphabetized in files in the vault of the Lake County Courthouse available for copy for verification.

Inez Siegrist and the Publication Committee. "Homesteaders Social Life in Irvine Flats," written by Ida M. Grund, "John H. Smith," "Walter John Vermedahl" and "Jack & Ninnie Williams," in In the Shadows of the Missions. Mission Valley News: Ronan, MT, 1986. pp. 22, 180, 198.

Paul and Donna Smith Memories and Picture Collection. See Mike Humphrey videos. Paul Robin Smith Obituaries of May, 1999.

Lloyd R. Stevens. Notes and Pictures of Roof girls (mother and aunts) and Herb Snider, Trustee.

Tom Stout, editorial supervisor. MONTANA ITS STORY AND BIOGRAPHY, A History of Aboriginal and Territorial Montana and Three Decades of Statehood, Volume I, The American Historical Society, Chicago and New York, 1921. "W. M. Irvine" p. 859.

Ron and Carol Swope. Picture Collection and Property Documents. Carol’s research on the Billy Irvine Ranch for the Lake County Country School Historians, school site location and pictures of land and remains today.

Vivian Smith Thompson. 1st Grade picture and names of Green Mountain Class of 1918-1919 with Emma Dorris as teacher.

Korrine Wigen Notes on Irvine Flats and Valley View schools.

Beulah Wigfield. Pictures and memories as related to Joyce Decker Wegner February 4, 2000 at Lake County Courthouse. District Clerk Records.