Background
Rostad, Lee B. was born on October 28, 1929 in Roundup, Montana, United States. Daughter of Edward and Emma Gail (Haddock) Birkett.
(In a small town, a woman of quiet passion and keen intell...)
In a small town, a woman of quiet passion and keen intellect lived two lives, the ordinary and the brilliant. Born in Kansas, Grace Stone was a young teacher in Butte, Montana when she married Henderson Coates in 1910. They moved to the fledgling town of Martinsdale. Coates wrote her father that she had been brought "into an alien land." Coates found another life in her writing, corresponding with William Saroyan, a young San Francisco writer who later became one of America's most celebrated writers and always credited Coates with influencing his work. She also shaped writers through her reviews and essays in The Frontier, a prominent literary magazine edited by H.G. Merriam. She regularly exchanged letters with Native American writer Frank Bird Linderman and Charles Russell art historian James Rankin. Coates' historian Lee Rostad has skillfully edited this rich legacy of correspondence into an intimate biography. It is adventure to uncover the real person behind the demure housewife.
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Rostad, Lee B. was born on October 28, 1929 in Roundup, Montana, United States. Daughter of Edward and Emma Gail (Haddock) Birkett.
Bachelor with honors, University Montana, 1951. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Rocky Mountain College, Billings, Montana, 1995.
Rancher Rostad and Rostad, Martinsdale, Montana, since 1952. Teacher Public School, Great Falls, 1953-1954, White Sulphur Springs, 1967-1968, Helena, 1968-1972. Board directors, fundraiser Mountainveiw Medical cTr., White Sulphur Springs, 1990—2000.
(In a small town, a woman of quiet passion and keen intell...)
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Trustee Montana State History Society, since 1997. President, executive board Montana chapter National Museum Women in the Arts, 1992—2000. Member County Study Commission, Meagher County, 1975.
Board directors Montana Committee Humanities, 1989—1996. Member of Meagher County Archives Association (charter), Meagher County History Association (fundraiser since 1960), Montana Watercolor Society.
Married O. Phillip Rostad, June 29, 1952. Children: Phillip, Carl Eric.