Jaeger Held

Jaeger Held, a fifth-generation Montanan, grew up on a ranch in Powder River County. In addition to serving as a researcher for Our Montana, Inc., he also serves as a trustee for the Montana Cowboy Hall of Fame & Western Heritage Center and as historian for the Montana camp of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War. In 2018, he co-authored a study on the 1876 Battle of Powder River for the American Battlefield Protection Program of the National Park Service. He has also worked to place marble headstones for U.S. soldiers buried in unmarked graves throughout the American West.

A 2022 graduate of Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania with a bachelor’s degree in History, he has worked as a National Park Service ranger at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park (West Virginia/Maryland/Virginia), Saint Croix National Scenic Riverway (Wisconsin/Minnesota), Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site (Montana), Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park (Texas), and Fort Laramie National Historic Site (Wyoming).