Kim Allen Scott

Some of my professional interests and publications:

• Peter Koch

• Captain Gustavus Cheyney Doane

• Manuscript Resources for the Civil War

• A Printer Comes to Pettigrew

• Loyalty on the Frontier

• Confronting the Great Pretenders

• Looking Back in Anger

Sabbatical 2008: A trip to Australia

• This was the trip of a lifetime!
• My favorite Oz radio station
• If you don's know who Ned Kelly is...
• More than delicious, it's a tradition!
• Whydoncha email me?:   kimjayne@imt.net

Although I have been doing HTML markup for about a decade, I still do not understand enough about the process to build a website from scratch. This format is the result of my first attempt to build a personal page after lifting the design from another site. Every time I try to renew the text on this page, I make a broken promise to myself to experiment with a different design, but the wheel ruts run pretty deep here in cyberspace and I continue to plod along with this layout.

My professional career began at the University of Arkansas in January, 1987 when I convinced the director of the library's Special Collections division to give me a job. My only qualifications at that point were a master's degree in history and a great deal of chutzpah (I still have the master's degree). I started out as a manuscript processor and found I really enjoyed the work, specializing in the department's extensive Civil War materials. Aside from a break in 1990 to attend the University of Texas at Austin to get a master's degree in library science, I worked for the University of Arkansas until August, 1994 when I got hired by Montana State University in Bozeman. During my career, I have climbed the three rungs of the academic latter from assistant, to associate, to full professor, and I am quite relieved the climb is over.

My research interests have changed over the years, and I am glad about that. Continuing curiosity is the only cure for boredom, and every time I discover a new line of inquiry to explore I feel refreshed and energized. Over the years I have published quite a few historical articles on the Civil War, frontier journalism, and the frontier period in Montana. My first book was published by the University of Arkansas Press in 2003 and is an edited version of Albert Bishop's Loyalty on the Frontier. My second book is a biography of Captain Gustavus Cheyney Doane, Second United States Cavalry, and is called Yellowstone Denied. It was published by the University of Oklahoma Press in 2006. My third book, Splendid on a Large Scale: The Writings of Hans Peter Gyllembourg Koch, Montana Territory, 1869-1874 is now available in fine bookstores everywhere. (Not really, but you ought to buy one anyway. Isn't that what Amazon is for?)

Old Main Reunion 2011

• Click on the link above to access the official nonofficial reunion webpage!
• Who: Aging dorm veterans, extended circle of friends, and family members are all welcome
• What: We usually gather to see how much hair our friends have lost, and how much wieght they have gained
• When: July 29, 30, 31, 2011 at Flagstaff, Arizona
• Where: Monte Vista Hotel: reunion headquarters for the last four gatherings
• How: This event happens every five years, although the time since our last one seems longer
• Why: These place holders will remain on the page until I can link something relevant.

Harriet Cushman photographs