Resources

"Aunt Lucy Ducharme was Beloved Pioneer" article. Source and date unknown. Also published IN THE SHADOWS OF THE MISSIONS, p. 53.Emerald (Bonser) Barker. Memories of teachers and students of 1914 and 1918. Generous sharing of her picture collection.

Miss Beaver. "The Perils of Driving a Stagecoach on Flathead" article in the Mission Valley New, January 14, 1987. p. 6.

Betty Brill Collection. Emma Rakowicz (Schmidt) Hoskinson journal notes, James Hoskinson Journal, Numerous Polson/Dixon ranch pictures and Indian Agency pictures.

Jane Bratton Burley. Provided her mother Helen Findley's collection of souvenirs from her teaching days at Ducharme: Teacher's Certificate, Letter, Pictures, Graduation Souvenir Program and a colored snapshot of the Ducharme School in 1999.

Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal Preservation Office, "Cultural Resource Inventory: Montana Highway 35 Polson East Project STPP 52-1(17)0 UPN 4036" for Montana Department of Transportation, 2701 Prospect Ave., Helena, MT 59601. October, 1999. [Utilized historians drafts on this topic and our pictures as part of their study.]

Lokadia Dotz obituary in the Missoulian, January 20, 1998.

Frank "Wilbur" Ducharme obituary in the Lake County Leader, March 25, 1993. p. 11B.

Flathead County Superintendent of Schools Teacher's and Student Registers copies from the Office of Donna Maddux copied by Joyce Decker Wegner and Kate Ike, December, 1998.

James Harbert, President School Board. October 29, 1919 letter to Dear Tenderfoot to all Polson's new teachers.

Velma R. Kvale. Where the Buffalo Roamed. Mission Valley News: September, 1976. p. 97.

Stephanie Lachowicz letter to Lake County Superintendent of Schools January 1, 1999 on behalf of Dr. Clarence W. Roehr, who attended Ducharme. Dr. Roehr died December 29, 1998 at the
age of 92.

Stella Stonehocker Parker letter written to Stanley Thurston on November 4, 1995.

Inez Siegrist and the Publication Committee. "Lowe," written by Mary Wright; "Harry H. Bonser;" and "Jean and Mae McIntire" by Mae McIntire as told to Mary Harlan; "Otis Sandage & Letta Knott's Sandage" by Jessie Sandage Clemans and "Helen Bratton" in In the Shadows of the Missions. Mission Valley News: Ronan, MT, 1986. pp. 20, 23, 111, 112, 119, 162.

Patricia McDonald Urrabazo letter written to Mr. Whitesell on December 2, 1980.

Excerpt from a Montana history book published in 1885, burned in fire of Pablo Irvine Stinger home. Brought in by Mrs. Tom Browne (Josephine Marion).

Polson School District #23 Board meeting minutes from the October 14, 1996 meeting.

School records of May 28, 1920 including teacher, school board, and pupils of Ducharme School.