Jaeger Held

Jaeger Held, a fifth-generation Montanan, grew up on a ranch in Powder River County. In addition to serving as a research assistant 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 American soldiers buried in unmarked graves throughout Montana.

A graduate of Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania, since 2021 he has worked as a National Park Service ranger at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, Saint Croix National Scenic Riverway, and most recently, Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site in Deer Lodge, Montana.