Collection 2245 - Merrill G. Burlingame Papers, 1880-1990

Creator: Burlingame, Merrill G. (Merrill Gildea), 1901-

Provenance Note: Research files, personal papers, photographs, microfilm and audiotapes created or collected by Merrill G. Burlingame were donated to Special Collections in 1991 and 1994 by Dr. Burlingame. Letters originally assigned collection number 495 were added on October 18, 2011. Documents formerly assigned collection numbers 508, 514, and 523 were added in March 2012. Document formerly assigned collection number 780 were added in October 2012. Document formerly assigned collection number 1004 was added in February 2013. Document formerly assigned collection number 1012 was added in May 2013.

Historical Note: Merrill G. Burlingame was born in Boone, Iowa on March 13, 1901, the son of Nathan and Teresa Gildea Burlingame. He attended local schools prior to receiving his doctorate at the University of Iowa in 1936. In 1929 he joined the faculty of Montana State College (now Montana State University) and became chair of the history department in 1935. Burlingame's research interests were primarily concerned with Montana and the frontier west. His books include: The Montana Frontier, (1942); A History of Montana (with K. Ross Toole, 1956); A History of Montana State University (1968); John M. Bozeman, Montana Trailmaker (1971). Burlingame also contributed articles to Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Pacific Northwest Quarterly, and Montana: The Magazine of Western History. Along with Dr. Caroline McGill, Burlingame helped establish the Museum of the Rockies and was active in the Montana Historical Society, the Montana Institute of the Arts, the American Historical Society, the Christian Church, and the masonic fraternity. He married Virginia Struble in 1936 and the couple had one son, Ray. Merrill Burlingame died in Bozeman, Montana on November 14, 1994.

Content Description Note: Primarily research files, the Burlingame papers reflect his lifelong interests in the history of Montana and the American West. The files have been arranged in 14 series based on subject or format. Subjects particularly heavily represented are: the history of Bozeman and Gallatin County, Montana and associated individuals; the history of Montana State University and associated individuals; the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ); Captain Gustavus C. Doane, Second U.S. Cavalry; Montana Native Americans. Series based on format are clippings, photographs, microfilm, maps, and audiotape, all of which contain material represented in the subject series. There is also a small group of personal papers containing familial correspondence and genealogical information on the Burlingame family. Original documents created or collected by the William W. Alderson family, Gustavus C. Doane, and Harriette Cushman are also part of the Burlingame papers.

Original and photocopied correspondence, research notes, literary manuscripts, photographs, microfilm, and audiotapes created or collected by Merrill Burlingame were originally maintained by him in several four-drawer filing cabinets during the lengthy course of his career. The subject headings Burlingame assigned to the various folders were not consistent, and much repetition in these headings occurred over the years as he added to his collection. This duplication, along with Burlingame's practice of producing multiple carbon copies of his letters and notes, resulted in a great deal of redundancy in his filing system. The present arrangement represents a compromise between preserving Burlingame's original arrangement and efficiency in retrieval for researchers. Researchers should be cautioned, however, of the need to check the inventories of more than one series for pertinent material due to the difficulty in properly classifying the folder subject headings within any particular group. An asterisk (*) following a folder title indicates that material (either photographs or oversize documents) has been removed for storage elsewhere in the collection.

RESTRICTIONS: Subject file pertaining to Ray Burlingame in Series 10 has been closed for research until 2070. Permission to use any of the material in Series 13, Microfilm, must be secured from the institutions holding the original documents. No photocopies of the Doane biography drafts in Series 3, Montana and the Pioneer West, without permisson from the Dean of Library.

Series 1	Biographical files
Series 2	Gallatin County research
Series 3	Montana and the pioneer west
Series 4	General correspondence
Series 5	Montana place names
Series 6	Indians
Series 7	MSC/MSU
Series 8	Organizations
Series 9	Clippings
Series 10	Personal papers
Series 11	Photographs
Series 12	Maps
Series 13	Microfilm
Series 14	Audiotapes

Series 1: Biographical files

Notes, letters, printed materials, photocopied and original documents pertaining to a wide variety of historical personages, mostly connected with the development of Montana. In addition to the research notes that Burlingame created, some files contain actual manuscript materials created or collected by the biographical subject. While some of the subjects represented in this series figured prominently in the development of Gallatin County, most substantial biographical files of Gallatin County pioneers have been placed in series 2. There are also research files of a biographical nature in series 3, Montana and the Pioneer West. The materials in this series have been arranged alphabetically by the name of the biographical subject.

Box 1
1. Ahern, George P. 2. Allen, W.A. 3. Amadeus, Mother 4. Anceney, Charles 5. Anceney, Charles 6. Anceney, Charles (nitrate negatives)* 7. Aronson, J. Hugo 8. Ashley, Gov. James M. 9. Baker, I.G. 10. Beall, William 11. Bell, Edward J. 12. Bell, William H. 13. Blackmore, William 14. Blair, Dr. James Franklin 15. Blakeley, Charles P. 16. Blankenship, Tom 17. Bottler, Frederick	18. Bovey, Charles A. 19. Bowers, Bertha (TU Ranch) 20. Bozeman, John* 21. Brackett, William S. 21a. Brainard, Laura 22. Brewer, Helen R. 23. Brown, Frank Dean "Sandbar" 24. Burnett, William 25. Calamity Jane 26. Cameron, Evelyn J. 27. Campbell, Fannie 28. Campbell, Col. Robert 29. Carnahan, J.M. 30. Carter, Thomas Henry 31. Chase, Mary Ellen 32. Chesnut, James D. 33. Christman, Charles
Box 2
1. Clagett, William H. 2. Clark, William 3. Colter, John 4. Colter, John 5. Colter, John 6. Colter, John 7. Comstock, Henry T.P.* 8. Conner, Pearl B. and Stuart 9. Cook, A.B. \ 10. Cook, Charles W. 11. Cooper, Gary 12. Cooper, Walter 13. Crosby, Gov. J. Schuyler 14. Culbertson, Alexander	15. Culbertson, Joseph 16. Custer, George A.* 17. Danner, Seth Orin 18. Daugherty, John B. 19. Davidson, W.S. 20. Decker Family 21. DeLacy, W.W. 22. DeSmet, Father 23. Dimsdale, Thomas J. 24. Duncan, Lewis J. 25. Dunne, William F.
Box 3
1. Edgar, Henry F. 2. Edgerton, Gov. Sidney 3. Edwards, Caldwell 4. Fairweather, Bill 5. Fetcher, Helen 6. Finley, Francois (Benetsee) 7. Flaherty, Marie 8. Flanders, G.W. 9. Fletcher, Nellie 10. Fulton, Dan 11. Garcia, Andrew 12. George, James 13. Grant, Richard 14. Griffith, Joseph Milton 15. Grouard, Frank 16. Hartt, Rollin L. 17. Harris, Willard	18. Heath, Capt. U.H. 19. Heikkila, Frank 20. Henry, Dutch 21. Hepburn, John 22. Hosmer, Judge H.L. 23. Howard, Joseph Kinsey 24. Howard, Dr. Wade 25. Howes, Calvin C. 26. Howse, Joseph 27. Hoyt, Dr. Mary Dickins 28. Hunter, Duncan 29. Jaycox, W.W. 30. Johnston/Reichman families 31. Kelly, J.N. 32. King, Thomas Wylie* 33. Kipp Family 34. Kirkaldie, Franklin
Box 4
1. Koch, Christian and Peter 2. Kohrs, Conrad 3. Krattcer, George Washington 4. Krieg, Fred C. 5. Laliberte, Lorraine 6. Lamme Family 7. Larrabee, Charles X. 8. Lewis, Meriwether 9. Lewis, Sam 10. Lindley, Viola 11. Long Hair, Chief 12. McGill, Dr. Caroline	13. Meagher, Thomas F. 14. Melton, Amos 15. Merrian, Harold G. 16. Monforton, Mr. 17. Monroe, Hugh 18. Montgomery, Anne 19. Moser, Dexter 20. Mushbach, J.E. 21. Neihart, Sarah 22. Nelson, "Doc" and Piersdorff, Lester 23. Nelson, Harold T. 24. Norris L. Merlin (Scrapbook)
Box 5
1. Patten, F.E.W. 2. Patten, George Y. 3. Peterson, Jacob L. 4. Phillips, Paul C. 5. Pitts Family 6. Plummer, Mr. and Mrs. Henry 7. Potts, Gov. Benjamin 8. Pryor, Nathaniel 9. Purple, Edwin R. 10. Ramsdall Journal (Do Not Reproduce) 11. Rankin, Jeannette 12. Reichman Family 13. Rich, Franklin W.* 14. Roberts, William Milnor 15. Robertson, Frank C. 16. Rouse, Daniel Elliott	17. Russell, Charles M. 18. Sacajawea 19. Sanders, Wilbur F. 20. Schultz, Mr. and Mrs. James W. 21. Shedd, James A. 22. Simmons, Major A.J. 23. Smith, Gov. Green Clay 24. Stapleton, Judge G.W. 25. Stasso, Lasso 26. Steamboat Bill 27. Storrs, Lucius Seynour 29. Story, Nelson 30. Stuart, Granville 31. Sublette, William 32. Sutherlin, Robert H. and William H.
Box 6
1. Thomas Party - 1866 2. Thoroughman, Robert P. 3. Timmons, Mary* 4. Tomlinson, Philo 5. Toole, K. Ross 6. Toponce, Alexander 7. Tracy, Mrs William H. (Sarah J.) 8. Tufts, James 9. Van Orsdel, W.W. "Brother Van" 10. Voldseth, Nels	11. Walton, Roy 12. Walsh, Senator Thomas J. 13. Wheeler, Burton K. 14. White, Benjamin F. 15. William, Captain James 16. Willson, Fred F. 17. Wilson, James S.R. 18. Winnemucca, Sarah 19. Yates, Granny

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Series 2: Gallatin County research files

Notes, correspondence, photocopies and original documents pertaining to the history of Gallatin County, Montana and the city of Bozeman, Montana. The topically labeled folders cover a wide variety of people, places, and events associated with Gallatin County history. Original documents created or collected by the W. W. Alderson family are included with this series as are files of biographical information on many prominent local personalities. Again, other biographical files of prominent Montanans can be found in series 1, Biographical files and series 3, Montana and the Frontier West. Research materials pertaining to Montana State College (Montana State University) in Bozeman have been placed in series 7. Much of the material dealing with the Christian Church in this series pertains to Burlingame's historical research on the Bozeman congregation and original copies of the Bozeman church's newspaper. For other Christian Church materials of a personal nature see series 8 and 10.

Box 7
1. Alderson family - diary Centennial Project Proposal 2. Alderson family - plan for publishing diary 3. Alderson family - diaries, miscellaneous notes 4. Alderson family - diaries, revisions 5. Alderson family - diary, master, pp. 1-103 6. Alderson family - diary, master, pp. 104-206 7. Alderson family - original documents, 1868-1900 8. Alderson family - transcripts of letters 9. Archaeology	10. Bader, John 11. Bates, Grace 12. Battle Ridge 13. Belgrade 14. Benepe, Frank L. 15. Benham Family 16. Big Horn Gun* 17. Blacktail Mountain Caves
Box 8
1. Bozeman Academy 2. Bozeman Arbor Day 3. Bozeman Cannery Co. 4. Bozeman Cannery Co. 5. Bozeman Cannery Co. 6. Bozeman Chamber of Commerce 7. Bozeman Chamber of Commerce--1912 report 8. Bozeman Christmas 9. Bozeman churches	10. Bozeman churches (Catholic) 11. Bozeman churches (Christian) 12. Bozeman churches (Christian) 13. Bozeman churches (Christian) 14. Bozeman churches (Christian) 15. Bozeman churches (Christian) "Christian Worker" 16. Bozeman churches (Christian) "Christian Worker" 17. Bozeman churches (Christian) "Christian Worker"
Box 9
1. Bozeman City Hall 2. Bozeman City Managers 3. Bozeman City Managers 4. Bozeman City Managers 5. Bozeman City Planning and Preservation 6. Bozeman City Planning and Preservation 7. Bozeman Deaconess Hospital History 8. Bozeman early history 9. Bozeman First National Bank 10. Bozeman "firsts" 11. Bozeman Government 12. Bozeman Government 13. Bozeman Heritage	14. Bozeman Hillcrest Resident's Childhood Memories 15. Bozeman Historic Survey 16. Bozeman Homes 17. Bozeman Incidents 18. Bozeman Kirk Historic District 19. Bozeman Newspapers 20. Bozeman Opera House 21. Bozeman Palace Theater 22. Bozeman Prostitutes 23. Bozeman Schools 24. Bozeman Streets and Buildings 25. Bozeman Sweet Pea Carnival 26. Bozeman Weather
Box 10
1. Bridger Canyon 2. Bridger Canyon Christian Church 3. Buffalo Jump (Madison)* 4. Buffalo Jump (Madison) 5. Cement Plant 6. Cemeteries 7. Centennial/Territorial Preliminary Planning 8. Central Park 9. Chesnut/Chestnut 10. Churchill, MT 11. Clarkston Valley 12. Crail Ranch 13. Culver Place	14 Dry Creek Church 15. East Gallatin 16. Ebbers, Jack 17. Electric Railway 18. Escaped Prisoner 19. Fairs 20. Flanders Sawmill 21. Fort Ellis* 22. Fort Ellis School 23. Fort Ellis Sundial 24. Fossils 25. Gallatin Canyon/Big Sky 26. Gallatin Canyon Indian Campground
Box 11
1. Gallatin Canyon - Levinski Case 2. Gallatin Century of Progress 3. Gallatin City 4. Gallatin City 5. Gallatin County 6. Gallatin County 7. Gallatin County Government 8. Gallatin County records	9. Gallatin County High School (Programs and cards) 10. Gallatin County High School Newspaper (Sept. 1927) 11. "Gallatin County Places and Things..." 12. Gallatin Gateway (Salesville) 13. Gallatin National Forest Map 14. Gallatin Trust & Savings Bank Mural 15. Gallatin Valley
Box 12
1. Gallatin Valley 2. Gallatin Valley Female Seminary 3. Gallatin Valley Female Seminary 4. Gallatin Valley Railway 5. Gallatin Valley/West Yellowstone 6. Geisdorff, Dr. & Aimes, E.B. 7. Ghost Towns 8. Gold 9. Hamilton (3 mi. south of Manhattan) 10. Headwaters Academy 11. Headwaters Bicentennial Project 12. Headwaters Herald 13. Headwaters State Park 14. Highway Sights & Interests (Gardiner-Livingston-Bozeman) 15. Horseshoe Hills 16. Hot Springs	17. Hunter, Bill 18. Hyalite Canyon 19. Indians 20. Jails & Courthouses 21. July 4 in Bozeman 22. Karst, Pete 23. Kenney/Rhoten Diary (1864-67) 24. Kent, Irving Cabin 25. Kenyon, Carlisle (interview) 26. Leverich Canyon 27. Lewis & Clark Pageant 28. Mammoth Ditch Company 29. Manhattan, MT 30. Medical Care 31. Murray Cabin 32. Nixon Bridge
Box 13
1. Pageants 2. Parks 3. Ross Peak 4. Sacajawea Hotel (Three Forks) 5. Sawmills 6. School Districts 7. Sedan 8. Spring Hill 9. Stage Routes 10. Story Quilt 11. Street/Roads Names 12. Summit Engineering Corp.	13. Three Forks 14. Three Forks* 15. Three Forks Bicentennial Celebration 16. Three Forks Bicentennial Celebration 17. Timberline, MT 18. Timberline, MT 19. Toll Roads & Ferries 20. Tours 21. Trail Creek & Storrs, MT 22. Upper Gallatin Geological History 23. Willow Creek 24. Willson Company

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Series 3: Montana and the pioneer west

Notes, correspondence, photocopies and original documents pertaining to the history of Montana and the pioneer west. These topically arranged folders cover a wide variety of material that documents Burlingame's research interests in Montana's past other than Gallatin County and Bozeman. Original documents created or collected by Captain Gustavus C. Doane and his wife, Mary Hunter Doane are included in this series, along with drafts of an unpublished manuscript biography of Doane written by Burlingame in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Some material on Montana Native Americans is included in this series, usually in the context of the Indian Wars and the frontier military. More complete research in this area is represented in series 6, Indians.

Box 14
1. Acquisition List - Fall, 1964 2. Agricultural History Symposium - June, 1976 3. Agriculture 4. Agriculture in the Great Plains, 1876-1930 5. Alder Gulch Discoveries 6. "American West, Perpetual Images" 7. Americana Encyclopedia 8. Antiquity Act (MT-1974) 9. Anaconda (Education) 10. Arbor Day in Montana	11. Archaeology* 12. Archaeology* 13. Archaeology - Bibliography 14. Archaeology - Burial Rocks* 15. Archaeology - Canada 16. Archaeology - Caves & Pictographs* 17. Arsenal (Montana) 18. Ashley, Governor James 19. Aviation in Montana*
Box 15
1. Barbed Wire 2. Barberry Bush Properties (Map) 3. Barns 4. Beads 5. Beidler, X 6. Bicentennial 7. Bicentennial Medal Design (1976) 8. Big Hole Battlefield 9. Big Timber Woolen Mill 10. Billings Polytechnic 11. Bitterroot 12. Bond, Samuel (Journal) 13. Bonner, Gov. John W. "Message to the thirty-second Legislative Assembly of the State of Montana" 14. Book Reviews 15. Books & Publications	16. Bozeman Trail 17. Bradley, James H. (Memorial Fund) 18. Breweries in Montana 19. Bridger, Jim 20. "British Impressions of Early Rocky Mountain Towns" 21. Broadwater & Company 22. Buffalo 23. Buffalo Jumps* 24. Burlingame & Toole 25. Burlingame, J.M. & J.F. 26. Burlington Northern Railroad 27. Calfee, White 28. Callaway, L.L. 29. Camels
Box 16
1. Canada Public Archives 2. Canadian Publications 3. Carter, Senator Thomas H. 4. Cascade & Chouteau County Historic Sites 5. Centennials 6. "Central Montana to 1871," by Clifton Boyd Worthen 7. Chico Hot Springs, MT 8. Chappel, Harry E. 9. Charbonneau, T. & Sacajawea 10. Cherry Creek Trail 11. Chinese in Montana 12. Church (misc.) 13. Church of England 14. Church (Episcopal) 15. Church (Methodist) 16. Church (Seventh-Day Adventist)	17. "The Cline House in Polson" by Gina Mahugh 18. Coal 19. College of Montana (Deer Lodge)* 20. Communication in Montana (1866-1911) 21. Communism in Montana 22. Community Development Foundation 23. "Concretions, the Study of Curved Surface Crystallography" 24. Constitution, Montana 25. Contributions of Montana 26. Cook Herd 27. Copper King Mansion 28. Crow's Nest (Army)-Scout's Lookout 29. Dandelions 30. De Smet Cross 31. Diamond City, MT 32. Dillon Examiner - 1920
Box 17
1. Doane, Gustavus C. - military orders 2. Doane - GAR documents 3. Doane - divorce and obituaries 4. Doane - Society of California Pioneers 5. Doane - Mary Doane papers 6. Doane - Howgate expedition ledger 7. Doane - National Archived inventories 8. Doane - Genealogy 9. Doane - Biography draft, Exploration of the Upper Yellowstone 10. Doane - Biography draft, On the way to Yellowstone 11. Doane - Biography draft, From Gardiner to Mt. Washburn	12. Doane - Biography draft, Hot Springs along the Yellowstone River 13. Doane - Biography draft, At the Grand Canyon 14. Doane - Biography draft, Around Yellowstone Lake 15. Doane - Biography draft, In search of Truman Everts 16. Doane - Biography draft, In the Geyser Basin 17. Doane - Biography draft, The road home 18. Doane - Secretary of War report, 1875 19. Doane - edited 1876 journal 20. Doane - edited 1876 journal 21. Doane - Biography notes
Box 18
1. Doane - Howgate expedition transcript 2. Doane - 1870 Yellowstone report (working copy) 3. Doane - 1870 Yellowstone report 4. Doane - Biography draft, general 5. Doane - Biography draft, general 6. Doane - Biography draft, Introduction 7. Doane - Biography draft, The Army comes to Montana 8. Doane - Biography draft, Pursuing the Piegans 9. Doane - Biography draft, The Discovery of Yellowstone 10. Doane - Biography draft, Fostering a National Park 11. Doane - Biography draft, The Search for a new Crow Reservation 12. Doane - Biography draft, Indian Affairs in the Judith Basin1 13. Doane - Biography draft, The Buffalo and the Indian	14. Doane - Biography draft, Life at Fort Ellis 15. Doane - Biography draft, Developing the Yellowstone Valley 16. Doane - Biography draft, At the Custer Battlefield 17. Doane - Biography draft, Marching on the High Plains 18. Doane - Biography draft, Spring Campaign of 1877 19. Doane - Biography draft, Hail Storm on the High Plains 20. Doane - Biography draft, On the trail of the Nez Perce 21. Doane - Biography draft, From Africa to the Arctic 22. Doane - Biography draft, Disappearing frontier 23. Doane - Biography draft, Captain Doane of the 2nd Cavalry 24. Doane - Biography draft, bibliography 25. Doane - Biography draft, Research and publishing correspondence 26. Doane - Biography draft, Swallow Press correspondence
Box 19
1. Dowsing 2. Drannan, Wm. F. 3. Drought sale of cattle 1934-1936 4. Drouillard, George 5. "Early American Freighters" by Joseph Hartmann 6. "Early American Freighters" correspondence 7. Early Man 8. Early Montana Men 9. Education in Montana 10. Educational Study 11. Ekalaka, MT 12. Elections in Montana 13. Elections in Montana	14. Encyclopedia Americana 15. Encyclopedia Britannica 16. "Ethnic Settlement of Montana" H.G. Merriam 17. Extension Department-University of Montana 18. Farmer Labor Party 19. Farming 20. Fergus, James 21. Film & TV Historical Project grant application 22. Finance & Government 23. Fisk Expedition 24. Flags 25. Flag and Seal - Montana
Box 20
1. Flathead Valley (Upper & Lower) 2. Flour Mills 3. Fort Buford 4. Fort Elizabeth Meagher 5. Fort Owen 6. Fort Pease 7. Fort Raymond 8. Fort Union 9. Fossils 10. French in Montana 11. Frontier Scout July 14, 1864 12. Fur Trade 13. Gallatin Range (West) 14. Gass, Patrick 15. Gazetter & Catalog 16. Geology 17. German Singing Societies 18. Ghost Towns 19. Gold	20. Governors of Montana 21. Graham, Jane (book dealer) 22. Granite Mining Company 23. Grant, John 24. Great Overland Stage Route 25. Plains Talk & Great Plains Newsletter 26. Guns 27. Guthrie, A.B. 28. Hangings 29. Harvard Research 30. Hedges, Cornelius 31. Hill Foundation 32. History of Montana Project 33. History of Montana Writing 34. Horse Capture, George P. 35. Hot Springs 36. Hudson's Bay Company 37. Hughes, Barney 38. Hutterites 39. Idaho
Box 21
1. Indian Whiskey 2. Influence of the Military in the Building of Montana 3. Initial Point of Montana 4. Initiatives & referendums of Montana (1908-1939) 5. Inland Empire 6. Interviews 7. Isolationists 8. Kinney, J.L. & Rhoten, Thomas 9. Koreans in Montana 10. Land Grant College 11. Land Ownership	12. Land Surveys 13. Larrabee, C.X. 14. "Last Buffalo of the Black Hills" 15. Frank Thomson 16. Legislature (Montana) 17. Library of Congress 18. Lichens 19. Literature 20. Lewis & Clark 21. Lewis & Clark
Box 22
1. Lewis & Clark Caverns 2. Luther, Mt school alumni 3. Mackenzie River 4. Magazine articles & notes about Mt & West 5. Mageeisms 6. Makers of Montana 7. Manitoba Archives 8. Maps & decisions on geographic names in the U.S. 9. Maps (Montana) 10. "Market & Trade Center Patterns in Central Montana" 11. Masons (Montana) 12. Menard 13. Methodist Education 14. Military 15. Minerals 16. "The Mining Frontier in Montana" 17. Mission Mountains 18. Mission Valley 19. Missouri Breaks Woodchoppers	20. Missouri Historical Society 21. Montana 22. "Montana" (state song) 23. Montana Academy of Sciences 24. Montana Books 25. Montana Centennial 26. Montana Company Limited (Drum Lummon Mine) 27. Montana Constitution 28. Montana Education 29. "The Montana Face" Leslie Fiedler 30. Montana facts & figures 31. Montana Farmer's Federation 32. "Montana's First Airplane Flight" 33. "Twenty Years of 4-H Club Work in Montana" 34. "Montana Frontier" Merrill G. Burlingame 35. "Montana-A Geological Textbook" Maurice Holliday 36. Montana historic sites 37. Montana historical calendar
Box 23
1. Montana history 2. Montana newspapers 3. "Montana the Magazine of Western History" 4. Montana Personality 5. Montana Politics 6. Montana Politics 7. Montana Power Company vs. Federal Power Commission 8. Speeches 9. Montana State Parks 10. Montana Tax Laws	11. "National Archives Microfilm Publications State Department Territorial Papers Montana---1864-1872" 12. Montana Wesleyan University 13. Montana Wildlands Coalition 14. Montana Writers 15. Montana/Wyoming Foundations 16 "The Northern Pacific Railroad and Montana's Mineral Lands" Thomas A. Clinch 17. Monuments & Statues 18. Mormons 19. Mouat Cliff Burials
Box 24
1. Natural resources (historical development 2. National Archives-Seattle branch 3. Negroes in Montana 4. Sidwell vs. New Mine Sapphire Syndicate 5. New York Public Library 6. Northern Plains Bison Kills by Merrill G. Burlingame 7. Norris, Governor Edwin L. Message to 12th Legislative 8. Villard, Henry 9. Northwest History Syllabus 10. Notes 11. "The Future of Montana" O'Connor, George W. 12. Paleontology 13. Page family "Tell It Like It Was" Don Redfield 14. Parker, Rev. Samuel 15. Patten, Frances Smith 16. Personal books of Merrill G. Burlingame 17. Peyote 18. Photography in archeology	19. Picture (Montana's oldest) 20. Picture indexing 21. Poetry & prose 22. Politics 23. Population Patterns 24. Postal research 25. "Prehistoric Man in the Yellowstone Valley" S.W. Conner 26. Progressive movements 27. Public lands 28. Publication catalogs 29. Railroads 30. Ralston, J.K. (discussion) 31. Reader's Encyclopedia of the American West 32. Recipes 33. Red Bluff (James H. Bradley Memorial Summer Fellowship) Dr. Jeffrey Safford 34. Remington, Frederic 35. Rendezvous 36. Resources (MT)
Box 25
1. Ringling Circus 2. Rockefeller Foundation 3. Rock monuments or stone cairns 4. Rocky Mountain Laboratory 5. Roe, Martha Ann Freeman (transcript of diary) 6. Robison Rockshelter 7. Roosevelt, Theodore (Hunting trip to Gallatin 1886) 8. Rosebud Expedition (1874) 9. Rural Developments in Montana 10. Russell, C.M. 11. Saengerfest 12. "Saga of the Sage" Elmer Starch 13. St. Regis, MT 14. Sanders, Sarepta 15. Saskatchewan 16. School lands (MT) 17. Seward's Manifest Destiny 1860 18. Sheep 19. Sheepeater 20. Sipes, Lawson J.	21. Smallpox 22. Smith, Governor Green Clay 23. Socialist Party & Newspapers 24. "Social Security in a Frontier Mining Camp" 25. Songs of miners in Butte, MT 26. Sources 27. South Dakota maps 28. Spanish in early Montana 29. Speech materials 30. Speer, J.B. (University of Montana) 31. Stage Route (Bozeman to Helena) 32. Statehood (Montana) 33. Station names (Montana) 34. Steamboats 35. St. Vincent's Academy 36. Supreme Court (Montana) 37. Survival certificate 38. Sutherlin, Robert 39. Telephone & telegraph 40. Television project (Montana)
Box 26
1. Territorial warrant (Montana) 2. Thanksgiving 3. Theses bibliography 1942 4. Third parties in Montana 5. Toll roads 6. Toole, K. Ross 7. Tours & trivia 8. Trading posts 9. Transportation 10. Tulane 11. Turkeys 12. "The Turner Thesis-A Problem in Historiography"	13. Twain, Mark 14. "Unidentified White Men in Western Montana in and about 1810" S.W. Conner 15. U.S. Army transcripts 16. U.S. Army transcripts 17. U.S.-Canada boundary treaty centennial 1946 18. University of North Carolina collections 19. Verendrye, C. & L. 20. Victor, MT 21. Vigilantes 22. Vigilantes
Box 27
1. Vigilantes 2. Vigilantes 3. Virginia City/Bannock Stage Route 4. Virginia City Players 5. Wagon trips to Yellowstone 6. Water rights and water courts 7. Watson, Helena 8. Watson, William H. - weather 9. "The American West, Perpetual Mirage" 10. "Westering Man, the Life of Joseph Walker" 11. White, Thain, "Artifacts from the Battle of the Rosebud" 12. Whoop-Up Trail	13. Wigwam Creek Tipis 14. Wild Flowers & Shrubs of Montana 15. Winter 1862-1863 Montana residents 16. Winter 1886-1887 17. Women in Montana 18. Worthen, C.B. 19. WPA Archeological projects 20. Yale 21. Yellowstone Expedition 1874-1876 22. Yellowstone Institute 23. Yellowstone National Park 24. Yellowstone River Valley

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Series 4: General correspondences

Letters written to or by Merrill Burlingame on a wide variety of research topics and matters of personal interest. Unlike correspondence found in the other series, these letters were maintained by Burlingame as a separate file regardless of their subject content. As a result much of the information contained within the letters pertains to subject files listed elsewhere. Most files are quite scant, containing few reference queries or brief replies from Burlingame. An important exception are the letters of W. J. "Duke" Ellington, an employee of the U. S. Bureau of Indian Affairs and administrator at the Rocky Boy reservation in the 1940s. The folders have been alphabetically arranged by the title Burlingame assigned them.

Box 28
1. Alderson, Angela 2. Annin, Jim 3. Aubrey, J.S. 4. Baldwin, Henry T. 5. Ballard, Jack A. 6. Balzhiser, Tom 7. Barbour, Philip R. 8. Bartlett, W.A. 9. Bess, Glenn R. 10. Binfords & Mort Publishers 11. Blackmore, William 12. Bovey, Charles 13. Bowen, K. 14. Bowen, Marie 15. Bradley, Charles & Nina 16. Brankeman, W.J. 17. Brown, Mark H. 18. Brownell, Baker 19. Burlingame Christmas letter 19A. Call, Hughie 20. Callaway, L.L. 21. Campbell, Mike 22. Cannon, Irene 23. Chappel, Charles 24. Clack, Elinor 25. Clark, Wm. Andrews Memorial Library 26. Coe, Auburn 27. Coe, William R. 28. Combes, Geneva 29. Comfort, John C. 30. Conner, S.W. 31. Cooper, Myrtle 32. Counter, Janice 33. Cushman, Margaret 34. Czura, Pete 35. Davidson, V.G. 36. Davis, Les 37. Dean, Mayo Story 38. Demarest, Mrs. Claude 39. Doig, Ivan	40. Downing, Warwick 41. Duboc, Jesse 42. Ellingsen, John D. 43. Ewers, John C. 44. Floerchinger, Dorothy 45. Gerard, Howard 46. Gardiner, Dorothy 47. Gill, Larry 48. Graham, Edith L. 49. Graham, Jessica 50. Grant, Marilyn 51. Graves, Lee 52. Haines, Aubrey 53. Griffin, Harvey & Vida 54. Hammond, G.P. 55. Hansen, Grace 56. Hart, A.L. 57. Hasner, Sharon 58. Heath, John L. 59. Heidel, Charles 60. Holter, Mary 61. Huffman, Roy 62. Hutchins, James S. 63. Ireland, Elizabeth 64. Jasmann, Alice O. 65. Jones, Jefferson 66. Judge, Governor Thomas 67. Kaschube, Dorothea 68. Koch, Elers 69. Koury, Michael J. 70. Kroes, Rob 71. Larsen, W.E. 72. Leggat Collection 73. Lew & Marian 74. Liberty, Margot 75. Lloyd, Carol 76. Lolomi Lodge 77. Lubick, George
Box 29
1. MacGilvra, E.E. 2. McKerrow, Glenn 3. McNamara/Marlow Ranch 4. Malin, James C. 5. Malouf, Dr. Carling 6. Mansfield, Mike 7. Martin, Fred J. 8. Metcalf, Senator Lee 9. Miller, Don 10. Miller, Gertrude Haight 11. Milne, Jim 12. Miracle, Ralph 13. Miscellaneous 14. Misevic, George 15. Monroe, Bessie 16. Moyhes, Stacy 17. Mueller, George & Oscar 18. Napoli, Sandi 19. Norton Clan 20. Nowels, Mrs. Ed L. 21. Omber, Lavern 22. O'Neill, Thomas (Tip) 23. Ortenburger, Leigh 24. Osgood, Ernest S. 25. Ovitt, Mable 26. Palladin, Vivian 27. Parker, Lois 28. Payne, Joseph P. 29. Peterson, J.H./Peterson, Helen 30. Place, Marian	31. Prewitt, Nancy C. 32. Publishers 33. Rankin, J. Lee 34. Rankin Memorial Service 35. Reiner, Ralph 36. Renne, R.R. 37. Rickards, Colin 37A. Rickey, Don 38. Rocky Mountain College 39. Safford, Jeff & Rydell, R. 40. Sampson, June 41. Sargent Family 42. Schoenberg, Father Wilfred 43. Schwinden, Governor Ted 44. Smith, Helen H. 45. Smith, Scott 46. Spencer, Amy 47. Thiessen, N.E. 48. Thrapp, Dan L. 49. Tretsven, Wayne 50. University of Iowa 51. Valentine, Louise 52. Van Horn, Otto & Kittie 53. Wear-Ever Company 54. Wellington, Duke 55. Wellington, Duke 56. Wellington, Duke 57. Whealdon, Bon 58. White, M. Catherine 59. White, Dudley 60. Willson, Fred S.

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Series 5: Montana Place Names

Primarily research notes and summary forms documenting a comprehensive list of Montana place names created or collected by Burlingame. Material explaining the origin of the particular name is included in some files along with pertinent correspondence from interested individuals.

Box 30
1. Correspondence 2. Decisions on Geographic Names in Montana 3. Formations of Counties, Reservations and Political Divisions in Montana 4. Indian Origin 5. Maps 6. Montana Historic Markers 7. "Montana Names" (1942) Scott Daniel 8. "Montana Place Names" - Federal Writers Project (WPA)	9. "The Origin of Some Montana Place Names" - Montana Writer's Project (1940) Mabel C. Olson (worker) 10. "How the State of Montana Was Named" (various photocopies 11. "The Origin of Some Montana Place Names" J.P. Rowe 12. Place Names, general 13. Absaroka Mountain Range 14. Beaverhead County 15. Beaverhead County-Bannack
Box 31
1. Big Horn County 2. Big Horn County-Fort C.F. Smith 3. Big Horn County-Fort Custer 4. Big Horn County-Yellowtail Dam 5. Blaine County 6. Broadwater County 7. Central Montana 8. Carbon County 9. Carter County 10. Cascade County 11. Cascade County-Fort Shaw 12. Chouteau County 13. Chouteau County-Fort Benton	14. Chouteau County-Fort McKenzie 15. Cooke City Highway 16. Custer County 17. Custer County-Fort Keogh 18. Daniels County 19. Dawson County 20. Deer Lodge County 21. Fallon County 22. Fergus County 23. Fergus County-Camp Cook, Fort Clagett 24. Fergus County-Fort Maginnis 25. Fergus County-Judith Landing Historic District
Box 32
1. Flathead County 2. Forts in Montana 3. Gallatin County 4. Gallatin County 5. Gallatin County	6. Gallatin National Forest 7. Garfield County 8. Glacier County 9. Golden Valley County 10. Granite County
Box 33
1. "The High Line" Carl M. Gunderson 2. Hill County 3. Jefferson County 4. Judith Basin County 5. Lake County 6. Lewis & Clark County 7. Lewis & Clark County-Last Chance Gulch*	8. Liberty County 9. Lincoln County 10. Madison County 11. Madison County-Beaverhead Rock 12. Madison County History* 13. Madison County-Red Bluff
Box 34
1. McCone County 2. Meagher County* 3. Mineral County 4. Missoula County 5. Missouri River 6. Musselshell County 7. Northeast Montana 8. Notes	. Park County 10. Park County 11. Petroleum County 12. Phillips County 13. Pondera County 14. Powder River County 15. Powell County
Box 35
1. Prairie County 2. Ravalli County 3. Richland County 4. Rivers 5. Roosevelt County 6. Rosebud County 7. Sanders County 8. Sheridan County 9. Silver Bow County 10. Stillwater County 11. Sweet Grass County	12. Sweetgrass Hills 13. Teton County 14. Toole County 15. Treasure County 16. Valley County 17. Western boundary-Montana 18. Western Montana 19. Wheatland County 20. Wibaux County 21. Yellowstone County 22. Yellowstone County-Pompeys Pillar

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Series 6: Indians

Notes, correspondence, photocopies and original documents pertaining to Native American tribes. Montana groups predominate, but some of the files are of a general nature. Some of the files were created while Burlingame conducted research for court cases involving the Crow, Salish, Kutenai, Blackfeet and Gros Ventre tribes during the 1950s and early 1960s.

Box 36
1. Activities, Drafts, Culture 2. "American Indian Contribution to Civilization" Everett E. Edwards; "Americanizing the White Man" Felix S. Cohen 3. Assimilation 4. Assiniboine 5. Battles 6. Blackfeet 7. Blackfeet/Blackfoot? letter from John Ewers 8. Blackfeet-Student Papers 9. Blackfeet-Canadian-U.S. 10. Blackfeet-Canadian Claims Case	11. Blackfeet-History 12. Blackfeet-Influences on Congress 13. Blackfeet-Livestock 14. Blackfeet-Minerals 15. Blackfeet-Opening of reservation 1888-1889 16. Blackfeet-Railroad Influence 17. Blackfeet-Social customs 18. Blackfeet-Claims 19. Blackfeet-Stevens Treaty - 1855 20. Blackfeet-Wades-in-the-water, Julia
Box 37
1. Bureau of Indian Affairs annual report 1940 2. "George Catlin's Creed about American Indians" 3. Cheyenne Tales 4. Citizenship 5. Confederated Salish-Kutenai Tribes 6. Cree 7. Cree publications 8. Crow/Blackfeet battle 1834	9. Crow-Claims case 10. Crow-Claims case 11. Crow-Claims case 12. Crow-Claims case 13. Crow-Fair 14. Crow-History 15. Crow-Student papers 16. Crow-Water rights/Yellowtail Dam
Box 38
1. Disabled reservation Indians 2. Diseases 3. Education 4. Ethnogeographical Guide 5. Flathead 6. Flathead 7. Flathead	8. Flathead 9. Flathead-Salish-Kutenai Historical Report Draft 10. Flathead-Salish-Kutenai Historical Report Draft 11. Flathead-Salish-Kutenai Historical Report Draft 12. Flathead-Salish-Kutenai Historical Report Letters 13. Fort Belknap
Box 39
1. Fort Peck Council handbook 2. Fort Peck Indian Reservation - correspondence, notes 3. Gambling/Liquor 4. Garraghan's Indian collection 5. "The Indian Tests the Mainstream" D'Arcy McNickle 6. "The Indians Among Us" Verne Dusenberry 7. Indians At Work 8. Indians of Montana/Plains student papers 9. Indians of Montana/Plains student papers	10. Interagency Task Force report 11. Kalispel Tribe 12. Kutenai/Kutenai notes 13. Kutenai/Kutenai notes Caims 14. Kutenai/Kutenai Contract with Merrill G. Burlingame 15. Kutenai/Kutenai Correspondence 16. Kutenai/Kutenai Historical report 17. Kutenai/Kutenai History 18. Kutenai History
Box 40
1. Forts & Flathead posts 2. Legislation 3. Little Shell /Turtle Mountain Chippewa of Hill 57 4. Manuscripts-Great Falls Chancery 5. Metis 6. Miscellaneous 7. Missions 8. "Montana Indian Affairs" C.S. Kenyon 9. National Defense 10. Newsletters 11. Nez Perce 12. Northern Cheyenne 13. "The Old Milk River Indian Agency" 14. Poison on the Indian Frontier 15. Prehistoric Indian Settlements of the Yellowstone Valley 16. Relationship with the federal government reading list	17. Reservations 18. Riel, Louis 19. Rocky Boy Reservation/Cree 20. Rocky Mountain College 21. "The Salish of Montana" Don Scott 22. Shaker Cult 23. Sioux 24. Societies and fraternities 25. Superintendents & agents 26. Tipis & lodges 27. Trails 28. "Trail of Broken Treaties....." 29. Treaties-National Archive sources 30. Tribes (Montana) 31. Warriors in Transition by John G. Langan

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Series 7: Montana State College/Montana State University

Montana State College/Montana State University

Notes, correspondence, photocopies and original documents pertaining to the history of MSU and selected administrators, faculty, and staff. Much of this material was gathered by Burlingame while preparing his book, A History of Montana State University (1961) and The Montana Cooperative Extension Service; a History, 1893-1974 (1984). Classroom lecture notes and syllabi for courses taught by Burlingame are also included. Original manuscripts created or collected by Harriett Cushman have been placed in this series as well.

Box 41
1. Alumni Greeting 2. Alumnus-John O. Bye 3. Annual faculty report 1966/67 4. Athearn, Lt. Col. George P. 5. Blue & gold award 6. Board of higher education 7. Brewer, Helen R. 8. Brewer, W.F. 9. Business, School of 10. Campus ministry 11. Carillon	12. Chalkey, Gladys B. 13. Civil engineering 14. Consolidation 15. Communist seminar 16. Contributions to the State 17. Cushman, Harriette 18. Cushman, Harriette--personal papers 19. Cushman, Harriette--Christmas cards 20. Cushman, Harriette--Estate 21. Cushman, Harriette--Genealogy
Box 42
1. Danforth Chapel 2. Danforth Chapel 3. Danforth Chapel 4. Danforth Chapel 5. Danforth Chapel 6. Danforth Chapel 7. Dusenberry, Verne	8. Emery, S.M. 9. English, speech, theater arts department 10. Enrollment map - 1976 11. Epsilon Sigma Phi 12. Faculty 13. Fairway Farms
Box 43
1. Fairway Farms 2. 50th anniversary-April 17, 1943 3. 50th anniversary-Brief 4. 50th anniversary-Preliminary sketch 5. 50th anniversary-notes 6. Finances - 1968 7. Flag 8. Founders Day, 1968 9. Graduate list 1896-1912	10. Hamilton, J.M. 11. Hannon, Olga Ross 12. Hill foundation 13. Historical sketches-1941 14. History of MSC & Montana Experiment Station (1923) 15. History 300 notes 16. History 300 notes 17-18. History 300 notes
Box 44
1. History 302 notes 2. History 302 syllabi 3. History department (Brewer award) 4. History department history & annual reports 5. History department 1893-1968	6. History & philosophy 7. Home Economics department 8. Home Economics department 9. Home Economics Department 10. Home Economics department
Box 45
1. Honorary degrees 2. Index reference cards 3. Indian center 4. Indian Club 5. Johnson, Leon 6. Horsfore, Tom & Kranzel, Carl 7. Kermer, John 8. Land grant institutions	9. land records 10. Lorentz, Floyd 11. Maiden, B.F. 12. Manuscript lists (MSU) 13. McDonald, Rita 14. McDonald, Rita 15. McDonald, Rita 16. McGill Museum
Box 46
1. McKee, Thomas 2. Montana agriculture experiment station 3. Montana Extension Service History-contributions 4. Montana Extension Service History-Bell, E. 5. Montana Extension Service History-third draft 6. Montana Extension Service History-Bell, E. 7. Montana Extension Service History-Cooley, F.S.	8. Montana Extension Service History-Cushman, Harriet 9. Montana Extension Service History-Mercer, Ralph 10. Montana Extension Service History-Jacobson, N.A. 11. Montana Extension Service History-notes 12. Montana Extension Service History-notes 13. Montana Extension Service History-4 H
Box 47
1. Montana Extension Service History-Home Demonstration 2. Montana Extension Service History-Home Demonstration 3. Montana Extension Service History-Poultry 4. Montana Extension Service History-Starch, Elmer 5. Montana Extension Service History-Starch, Elmer 6. Montana Extension Service History-Bell letters	7. Montana Extension Service History-Starch, Elmer 8. Montana Extension Service History-Starch, Elmer-Tape transcripts 9. Montana Extension Service History-Starch, Elmer-Tape transcripts 10. Montana Extension Service History-The Taylor Years 11. Montana Extension Service History-The Taylor Years 12. Montana Extension Service History-revisions
Box 48
1. Montana Extension Service History-revisions, 1972 2. Montana Extension Service History-revisions, 1973 3. Montana Extension Service History-revisions, no date 4. Montana Extension Service History-revisions, Aashheim	5. Montana Extension Service History-revisions, chapters 2-9 6. Montana Extension Service History-revisions, chapters 9-10 7. Montana Extension Service History-Starch, last changes
Box 49
1. Montana Extension Service History-revisions, chapters 7-9, galley 2. Montana Extension Service History-revisions, summary, Bell and Burlingame 3. Montana Extension Service History-revisions, Tootell and Beers 4. Montana Extension Service History-final draft 5. Montana Extension Service History-final draft 6. Montana state board of education 7. "MSU and the small high school in Montana"	8. "The Montanan" Bea McKenna 9. Newsletters-non newspaper 10. Notes & clippings 11. Peck, Lucy Stafford 12. Pirsig, Robert 13. Phi Kappa Phi 14. Philosophy department
Box 50
1. Pi Kappa Alpha 2. Pi Kappa Alpha 3. Pi Kappa Alpha 4. Poultry 5. Religious Emphasis Week 6. Renne, Roland R. 7. Rhodes Scholars 8. Second Century Campaign 9. Special Collections 10. Sigma Chi 11. Sloan, William F.	12. 75th Anniversary 13. Speeches 14. State board of education 15. Strand, A.L. 16. Strand, Mollie 17. Student charts 18. Student housing association (proposed) 19. Summer quarter notes (7-5-67) 20. Taylor, Bob 21. Textbook ban - 1968 22. University chancellorship - 1943
Box 51
1. "Women's Day Activities (1904-1908)" Edna Tracy White 2. Warrants - 1932 3. Wilson, M.L. 4. Wilson, M.L.-Fairway Farms 5. Wilson, M.L.-Symposium	6. "Women's responses....." James, David 7. Women's activities 1904-1908 8. Women's day speaker: Opal Petrarsh Daff 9. Wright, Freeman

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Series 8: Organizations

Notes, correspondence, photocopies and original documents pertaining to various organizations of which Burlingame was a member or was interested in as a research topic. Most organizations are Montana related and include the Christian Church, the Montana Historical Society, the Masonic fraternity, and the Museum of the Rockies.

Box 52
1. American Indian Institute 2. Christian Church 3. Christian Church 4. Christian Church	5. Christian Church 6. Christian Church-speeches 7. Christian Church-speeches 8. Christian Church-Montana
Box 53
1. Christian Church-Montana 2. Christian Church-Montana 3. Christian Church-Montana 4. Bozeman trail association 5. Gallatin County Historical Society 6. Gallatin County Historical Society	7. Heckler's Club 8. Heckler's Club 9. Heckler's Club 10. Labor 11. Masonic Lodge-"Gallatin Masonic Light"
Box 54
1. Masonic lodge #18 Centennial 2. Masonic lodge #18 centennial 3. Masonry, Montana 4. McGill museum 5. Montana Committee for the Humanities 6. Montana Ghost Town Preservation Society	7. Military organizations in Montana 8. Montana Archaeological Society 9. Montana Bicentennial Committee 10. Montana Historical Society 11. Montana Historical Society
Box 55
1. Montana Historical Society-1968-69 2. Montana Historical Society-1970 3. Montana Historical Society-1970	4. Montana Historical Society-1970-71 5. Montana Historical Society-1971 6. Montana Historical Society-1972
Box 56
1. Montana Historical Society-1972 2. Montana Historical Society-1972 3. Montana Historical Society-Burlingame interview transcript 4. Montana Institute of the Arts 5. Montana Museums	6. Montana Veterans & Pioneers Memorial Building 7. Museum associations 8. Museum of the Rockies 9. Museum of the Rockies
Box 57
1. Museum of the Rockies 2. Museum of the Rockies 3. Museum of the Rockies 4. Museum of the Rockies 5. Museum of the Rockies-correspondence 6. Museum of the Rockies-Prescott, Gertrude	7. Non-partisan League 8. QK club 9. Rotary* 10. Wool Growers Association 11. World Religions

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Series 9: Newspaper Clippings

Newspaper clippings gathered by Burlingame pertaining to a wide variety of subjects represented in other series. These clippings are stored separately due to preservation considerations.

Box 58
1. Aasheim, T.S. 2. Acton, Loren 3. African Violets 4. Agriculture 5. Alderson family 6. Alverson, Jim 7. Alzheimer's 8. ACLU 9. Anceney, Carles 10. Ancient Indians 11. Anderson, Marcia 12. Archaeology 13. Arts and Artists 14. Atkinson, Dr. Alfred 15. Aviation 16. Bannack 17. Bar-X Ranch 18. Barbed wire 19. Barn roof reconstruction 20. Bartolome, Peter W.	21. Baucus, Max 22. Bearcreek 23. Beaverhead Rock 24. Beaverslide Stacker 25. Beebe, Margaret S. 26. Berrington/Beck 27. Big Horn 28. Big Horn Canyon 29. Big Sky Bible College 30. Big Sky, MT 31. Big Timber 32. Billings 33. Blakely, Charles P. 34. Bobcat sports 35. Bohrer, Randolph 36. Bolles, Martha 37. Boulder Hot Springs 38. Bovey, Charles 39. Boyer brothers, (Willow Creek) 40. Bozeman
Box 59
1. Bozeman-Banks 2. Bozeman-Cemetery 3. Bozeman-Churches 4. Bozeman-City Manager 5. Bozeman Daily Chronicle 6. Bozeman-Fire Department 7. Bozeman-Firsts 8. Bozeman-Gallatin County Detention Center 9. Bozeman-Homes 10. Bozeman-Hotel 11. Bozeman-Kiwanis 12. Bozeman-Livestock auction 13. Bozeman-Main Street 14. Bozeman-Medicine 15. Bozeman-Senior High prank 16. Bozeman-Streets 17. Bozeman-Sweet Pea 18. Bozeman Trail 19. Bozeman-Water 20. Bozeman-Willson Company 21. Breweries 22. Brewster, Lyman 23. Bridger Canyon, Maiden Rock 24. Broadwater hotel	25. Buchanan, Cynthia 26. Buffalo 27. Bush/Quayle 28. Butte 29. Buttleman, John 30. Camas Hot Springs 31. Cameron 32. Campbell, Tom 34. Cartoons (Ace Reid) 35. Castle 36. Catholic church in Montana 37. Cattle 38. Caves 39. Chesnut 40. Chicago Tribune 41. Chico Hot Springs 42. Child abuse 43. Christian Standard 44. Christler, L.J. 45. Chrome, MT 46. Churchill 47. Cinnabar
Box 60
1. Clark, John L. 2. Clark, Urana 3. Clow, Bertha 4. Coal 5. Coal Tax reivestment 6. College of Montana 7. Colstrip 8. Colter, John 9. Columbus hospital 10. Communism in Montana 11. Computers 12. Comstock, H.T.P. 13. Cooke City 14. County schools 15. Cow Chip 16. Crocker, Betty 17. Cushman, Harriette 18. Custer battle 19. Custer, George Armstrong	20. Custer-Sioux skirmish 21. Dams 22. Davis, Cliff 23. Dempsey-Gibbons fight 24. Dimsdale, Thomas 25. Dinosaurs 26. Dry Creek 27. Duncan, John 28. Dusenberry, J. Verne 29. Eagles 30. Eastern Montana 31. Ecton, Zales 32. Education 33. Elections in Montana 34. Elkhorn 35. Elkhorn mine 36. Emery, S.M. 37. Emigrant Gulch
Box 61
1. Energy Emergency rates 2. English colony 3. Erhardt, Tilney W. 4. Ethnic heritage 5. Extension service 6. Fishing 7. Flag and seal 8. Flathead County 9. Fletcher, Nellie 10. Fligelman, Frieda 11. Forests 12. Fort Assiniboine 13. Fort Belknap 14. Fort Benton	15. Fort Ellis 16. Fort Keogh 17. Fort Logan 18. Fort Peck 19. Fort Shaw 20. Fort Union 22. Foss, Ted 23. Fossil insects 24. Fossils 25. Freedom 26. Fritz, Harry 27. Gallatin Canyon
Box 62
1. Gallatin City 2. Gallatin County 3. Gallatin County government 4. Gallatin County Rest homes 5. Gallatin Field 6. Gallatin Gateway 7. Gallatin River 8. Gallatin Valley 9. Gallatin Valley Female Seminary 10. Galt, Errol F. 11. Gambling 12. Gardiner 13. Gass, Sgt. Patrick 14. German POWs 15. Gettysburg Address update 16. Ghost Cliffs 17. Ghost towns 18. Gibbons, General 19. Gibson Park 20. Gilt Edge 21. Giralot vs. MSU 22. Graham, Jessica Schultz	23. Great Falls 24. Great Plains 25. Green, Jesse 26. Griffin, Harvey 27. Grizzly bear 28. Grove, Charles Porter 29. Guthrie, A.B. 30. Haines, Aubrey 31. Hainline, Bill 32. Hamilton, Ernst 33. Hangings 34. Hardin 35. Harmann, Joe 36. Havre 37. Haynes Art Gallery 38. Hazardous waste 39. Headwaters Herald 40. Hebgen earthquake 41. Hedges, Cornelius 42. Helena 43. Helena-Carroll Trail 44. Henry's Fork
Box 63
1. Homesteaders 2. Honorary degrees, 1985 3. Huffman, Roy 4. Huidekoper, Wallis 5. Huntley, Chet 6. Hutterites 7. Indians 8. Indians in the Gallatin Valley 9. Industry, Montana 10. Ingersoll, Wilmer 11. Initial Point 12. Iowa, University 13. Jardine 14. Jaw Bone 15. Jennings, Peter 16. John Birch Society 17. Johnson, Sam	18. Judiciary 19. Judith River 20. Keister, Roy M. 21. Kelley, C.F. 22. Kelsey, Bonnie 23. Kelsey, Howard 24. KUSM 25. Labre Indian School 26. Land Grant Colleges 27. Landusky 28. Langhor, Dan 29. Lavina 30. Law 31. Learning disabilities 32. Levinsky, Andrew 33. Lewis and Clark 34. Lewis and Clark Caverns
Box 64
1. Lewistown 2. Literature 3. Livesay, Jennie Smith 4. Livingston 5. Lott Family 6. Loy, Myrna 7. Lynde, Stan 8. McGee, Warren 9. McGill, Caroline 10. McIntosh, Carl 11. McMullen, Joe 12. Madison Buffalo Jump 13. Madison County 14. Magnetic rocks 15. Mammoth Trumpet 16. Manhattan 17. Mansfield, Mike	18. Manufacturing 19. Maps 20. Marino, Joe 21. Mars, Map 22. Martin, Fred 23. Masons 24. Masons 25. Marysville 26. Maurer, Tom 27. Meagher County 28. Meagher, Thomas F. 29. Medicine Wheel 30. Melcher, John 31. Melcher, John 32. Metals 33. Michener
Box 65
1. Miller, Grace 2. Minerals 3. Mining 4. Missouri River 5. Moncrete 6. Montana 7. Montana-song 8. Montana-Bicentennial medal 9. Montana-Centennial 10. Montana-Chamber of Commerce 11. Montana-Constitution 12. Montana-Country of the Mountains 13. Montana-Eagle 14. Montana-Education	15. Montana-Flag and seal 16. Montana-Governor's messages 17. Montana-historic trails 18. Montana-Historical calendar 19. Montana-Land trusts 20. Montana-Masonic news 21. Montana-Opinion 22. Montana-Politics 23. Montana-Population 24. Montana-Post 25. Montana-Sapphires 26. MSC history 27. Montana state experiment stations
Box 66
1. MSU 2. MSU 100th Anniversary history 3. Montana Talc Company 4. Montana Winter Fair 5. Montgomery, Joe 6. Monuments and markers 7. Morely, John Henry 8. Mossman 9. Movies 10. Mueller, Oscar 11. Mullan Road 12. Mullan's expedition 13. Museum of the Rockies 14. Museums 15. Myers, Alfred 16. Mysersburg 17. NRTA News bulletin 18. Nesbit, Sidney	19. Newspaper, "Pick and Plow" 20. Newspapers 21. Norris 22. Old Faithful Inn 23. Old Milk River Indian Agency 24. Onstad, Lyle 25. Orient 26. Outpatient business 27. Outstanding Montanans 28. Ova transplant 29. Owen, John 30. Pace, Herb 31. Park County 32. Patagonia 33. Paugh, Minnie 34. Penttila, William 35. Petroleum industry 36. Phillipsburg
Box 67
1. Photographs and photographers 2. Pictographs 3. Politics 4. Pony 5. Print 6. Prison 7. Railroads 8. Rankin, Doris and Barney 9. Rankin, Jeanette 10. Reagan, Ronald 11. Red Bluff 12. Religious Groups 13. Renne, Roland 14. Retirement 15. Rich, Franklin W. 16. Richters, Ken 17. Rick O'Shay 18. Rochester 19. Rocky Boy 20. Roosevelt, Franklin D. 21. Rouse, Clifford 22. Ruffner, Sanford 23. Russell, Charles 24. St. Mary's mission 25. Salesville 26. Salish Falls 27. Sallee Ranch 28. Sand Coulee 29. Sanders, W. F. 30. Sapphire mines	31. Sawmills 32. Schmitt site 33. Schultz, James Willard 34. Seatbelts 35. Semantics 36. Shields River 37. Shodair Hospital 38. Silver statue 39. Sinton, George and Kittie 40. Sitting Bull 41. Skiing 42. Synder, Simon 43. Soldiers Chapel 44. Spokane 45. Springdale Bridge 46. Statue of Liberty 47. Stewart, Katherine 48. Stillwater County 49. Storrs 50. Stream rehabilitation 51. Stuart, Harry C. 52. Sweet Grass Hills 53. Switzer, Malthus 54. Tapes 55. Tindoy 56. Tenth Cavalry 57. Terry 58. Thomas massacre
Box 68
1. Three Forks 2. Three Forks Bicentennial Park 3. Three Forks Lewis and Clark pageant 4. Toll bridges 5. Toole, K. Ross 6. Townsend, Elsie Doig 7. Townsend 8. Tracy, Sarah 9. Transportation 10. Trident, Post office 11. True, Dave 12. Two Dot 13. UFO 14. Update, Black church 15. Ursulines 16. Vigilantes 17. Virginia City 18. Virginia City 19. Visscher, Wendy 20. Wallace, Bev 21. Water	22. Water Dousers 23. Weather 24. Weatherly, Shannon 25. West Yellowstone 26. Wheeler, Burton K. 27. White, Dudley 28. White Sulphur Springs 29. Wibaux 30. Williams, James 32. Windmill 33. Winter 34. Wolf Point 35. Women 36. World War II 37. Wylie, W. W. 38. Yellowstone County 39. Yellowstone Ecosystem 40. Yellowstone Institute 41. Yellowstone National Park 42. Yellowstone Pine Company

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Series 10: Personal papers

Primarily materials created or collected by Burlingame dealing with his personal life, finances, family genealogy, religious topics, awards and commissions, and memorabilia. This series includes speeches that Burlingame gave to community groups on historical and other topics. File on Ray Burlingame has been closed to research until 2070 by request of the donor.

Box 69
1. Address lists 2. American West 3. Astrapolitics 4. Awards and certificates 5. Awards and certificates 6. Awards and certificates 7. Awards and certificates 8. Background of the Bible	9. Background of the Bible 10. Background of the Bible 11. Biographical information 12. Burlingame family history 13. Christian church 14. Dissertation rewrites 15. Dissertation rewrites
Box 70
1. Doran/Gildea genealogy 2. Ethical and political speeches 3. Ethical and political speeches 4. Ethical and political speeches 5. Funeral arrangements 6. Gildea family history 7. History of Canada 8. Masonic aprons 9. Miscellaneous correspondence 10. Miscellaneous notes 11. Montana speeches	12. National influences on the development of Montana 13. Personal library 14. Personal library 15. Poetry and epigram snips 16. Poetry and epigram snips 17. Popularizing Peace 18. Ray Burlingame [RESTRICTED UNTIL 2070] 19. Religious speeches 20. Religious tracts 21. Small Town Renaissance 22. Texas as she is

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Series 11: Photographs

Original and copy photographs taken or collected by Burlingame on a wide variety of subjects represented in other series. Topics include: Merrill Burlingame and the Burlingame family; Montana biographical subjects; Montana communities; Bozeman and Gallatin County; the Bozeman Christian Church; Indians and related archaeology; Gustavus C. Doane; Harriette Cushman; and Montana views. The photographs have been arranged topically and have been sequentially numbered. Available negatives have been placed in folder.

Box 71
Folder 1. Burlingame portraits, 1903-1934; photographs #1-7
Folder 2. Burlingame portraits, 1940-1980; photographs #8-16
Folder 3. Burlingame-Montana Historical Society; photographs #17-21
Folder 4. Burlingame family snapshots; photographs #22-43
Folder 5. Biography
Folder 6. Montana towns
Folder 7. Three Forks
Folder 8. Three Forks
Folder 9. Bozeman
Folder 10. Bozeman and Gallatin County
Folder 11. Emigrant Gulch and the Yellowstone Gold Mining Co.
Folder 12. Monuments and tombstones
Folder 13. Forts
Folder 14. Doane-Hunter families
Folder 15. MSU/MSC
Folder 16. Harriette Cushman
Folder 17. Christian Church
Folder 18. Christian Church
Folder 19. Christian Church
Folder 20. Indians and reservations
Folder 21. Indians-Antiquities and Archaeology
Folder 22. Indians-Antiquities
Folder 23. Indians-Antiquities
Folder 24. Transportation
Folder 25. Montana views and miscellany
Folder 26. Burlingame Africa trip slides, 1969 (not numbered)
Folder 27. Negatives

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Series 12: Maps

Maps

Printed and manuscript maps collected or created by Burlingame in association with his research interests. The maps have been organized according to the issuing agency and are either exclusively Montana or the American West. Some of the manuscript maps were created for Burlingame's book The Montana Frontier. Box 72 also contains oversize materials removed from previous series.

Box 72: 1. Manuscript maps; 2. Montana Hwy. Dept County Maps, 1941-1963; 3. U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management; 4. Western United States; 5. Bozeman family tree (from series 1); 6. MSU instructors (from series 7); 7. Certificates and awards (from series 10)

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Series 13: Microfilm

Microfilmed primary source materials collected by Burlingame from various institutions in the United States and Canada pertaining to a wide variety of historical subjects and persons. Institutions from which the microfilm was ordered includes Harvard, Yale, New York Public Library, Missouri Historical Society, and the Manitoba Archives. Permission to use any of this material must be granted by the institutions holding the original documents. Information in brackets has been taken from the order form Burlingame filled out for some institutions and may refer to that institution's control number of the documents that were duplicated. Film in boxes 101-134 appear to be "home made" by Burlingame himself from original documents whose origin cannot be determined.

Box 73 Manitoba Archives: Johnstone, William - Notes of a trip to the Rocky Mountains in 1866
Box 74 Yale University Library: Upham, H.D. - Letters, 1865; Freeman, H.B. - Journal, 1876 [Whithington 204]; Greene, Francis Vinton - Voyage of FVG from Sweet Grass Hills to Bismarck [Withington 230]; Thomas, W. Kent - Little Big Horn [article]; Greene, Francis Vinton - Letter from Virginia City, August 25, 1875; Hempstead, Thomas - Letterbook, 1821 [Withington 231]; Baird, George William - Indian campaigning with General Miles [WA MSS S911 B163]
Box 75 Yale University Library: Hedges, Cornelius - Diaries, 1849-1851; 1856; 1863; 1867-1882
Box 76 Yale University Library: Hedges, Cornelius - Diaries, 1851-1855
Box 77 Yale University Library: Hedges, Cornelius - Diaries, 1883-1907
Box 78 Montana Historical Society: Hedges, Cornelius - Diary, 1865
Box 79 University of North Carolina: Richmond, Theodore - Papers [Collection 632]; Gibson/Humphries papers [Collection 922]
Box 80 Yale University Library: Bond, Samuel - Journal of the Fisk expedition, 1862 [Withington 39]; English, William - Field diary of WE, 1876; Wilson, James S.R. - Journal of a trip to Yellowstone Park, 1875; Nauser, Samuel - Letters to his sister, 1862
Box 81 New York Public Library: Bond, Fred - Diary, 1876; Sydendham diary, 1889-1890 (Lt., 2nd Infantry); Astor papers, letter, 1814; Montana-Upper Missouri Valley Research Material; Coon, Homer - Recollections, Nez Perce Indians; Brown, Edwin M. - Account of expedition, 1876-77
Box 82 New York Public Library: Greene, Francis Vinton - U.S. Northern Boundry Commission letters, 1872-1876
Box 83 New York Public Library: Howard, Wade - A journey from Tipton, Mo. to Virginia City, 1865
Box 84 Harvard University Library: Albright, Edward L. - St. Peters Mission; Blake, Frank - The "locus" of the soul in the body; Brown, Earl W. - A problem in approximate trisection; Clinch, Thomas Anthony - Historical Backgrounds of Custer's Last Stand<
[All of the above are theses from Carroll College, 1949]; Healy, John J. - Interview by Forest Crissey, May 29, 1899
Box 85 New York Public Library: Greene, Francis Vinton - Diary of a trip to Yellowstone Park, 1875
Box 86 New York Public Library: Berthold, E. L. - Explorations in Idaho and Montana in 1878; Brown, J. B. - Traditions of the Blackfeet
Box 87 Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis: Excerpts from:; Choteau-Pampin collection, 1829-1850; Drips papers, 1842; William Clark papers; Sibley papers, 1819-1864
Box 88 New York Historical Society: "In Memorium: Edwin R. Purple, 1881"
Box 89 New York Historical Society: Excerpts from Edwin R. Purple papers
Box 90 Manitoba Archives: Selections from:; Alexander Morris papers; Adams G. Archibald papers; Louis Riel papers
Box 91 Same as above, negative reel
Box 92 Public Archives of Canada, Ottowa: Larouque, F. A. "Journal of the Missouri River, 1804-1805" [MG 19 C1 vol 3]; McKenzie, Charles, "Account of Missouri Indians, 1804" [MG 19 C2 vol 9]; Department of Interior-Dominion Lands Branch; Journey to Mountain House, Winter, 1870-1871; British Minister 1330 "Alleged outrage by U.S. Troops upon settlers at White River"; Fletcher, H.C. 2679 "Apprehended attacks by Indians on boundry, letter from Captain Cameron"; Colonial Secretary 4561 "Letter from Earl of Carnarvon and from Sir E. Thorton on discovery of gold in Black Hills"; Indian Affairs 121007 "Conditions of Canadian Indians in U.S. and Sioux, letter from Fort Belknap, 1879"; Devins, J. S. 157337 "Report on Mormon settlement at Cardston"; RG 18, Series B, vol. 5 "Rondeau and Alexis History of Southern Saskatchewan"
Box 93 Library of Congress: Evans, Charles, Diary, July-September, 1853; Brown, Edward B. "Terror in the Badlands: Journal of the Miles Expedition, 1876-1877"
Box 94 Harvard University Library: Selections from the Oswald G. Villard papers regarding Burton K. Wheeler, Frederick Billings, and Henry Villard
Box 95 Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis: Fort Union Letter Book, 183301835 [Choteau Collection]
Box 96 University of Missouri-Western Historical Manuscripts Collection.: Wibaux, Pierre - Papers, 1881-1929
Box 97 Library of Congress: Thomas J. Walsh papers - Correspondence pertaining to women's suffrage
Box 98 Montana Historical Society: Leases on mortgaged lands, ca. 1950s
Box 99 Montana Historical Society: David, Christopher C. - Diary, 1879-1881
Box 100 National Archives: Records of the Washington Superintendency of Indian Affairs, 1853-1874; Letters from employees assigned to the eastern district, Flathead agency and Blackfeet agency, 1853-1863
Box 101 Indian Affairs - charges against...
Box 102 Flathead Agency Observations 29p
Box 103 Misc. Indian Agency 38p
Box 104 Fort Maginnis - letters received Aug. 15, 1880 + 45p
Box 105 Ft. Maginnis - Letters Received July 1881 + 33p
Box 106 Ft. Maginnis - Letters Received July 1881 (Roll 2) + 34p
Box 107 Ft. Maginnis - Letters sent May 1882 + 19p
Box 108 Ft. Maginnis - Letters sent May 1883 + 34p
Box 109 Ft. Maginnis - Letters sent Sept. 1883 27p
Box 110 Ft. Maginnis - Letters sent June 1889 36p
Box 111 Ft. Maginnis - letters sent Aug. 1884 + 37p.
Box 112 Ft. Belknap 1873-1876 20p
Box 113 Fort Custer, research paper by Richard Bowler, 1965
Box 114 Letters sent from Ft. Custer 1877 21p
Box 115 Letters sent from Ft. Custer 1879 28p
Box 116 Letters sent from Ft. Custer 1883 28p
Box 117 Ft. Belknap 1873-1876 43p
Box 118 Ft. Peck - 31p+ 12-44
Box 119 Ft. Peck - 37p
Box 120 Ft. Peck - 1874 24p
Box 121 Ft. Benton - Letters sent 1869 + 48p
Box 122 Stevens Treaty 1855 Roll #1
Box 123 Stevens 1855 Roll #2
Box 124 Stevens Treaty 1855 Roll #3
Box 125 Stevens Treaty 1855 Roll #4 - 31p Roll #5 - 12p = 43p
Box 126 Doane's Report on Pease Exp. Roll #1 33p
Box 127 Doane's Report on Pease Exp. Roll #2-1/2 Dark-
Box 128 Doane's Report on Pease Exp. Roll #3 31p
Box 129 Doane Materials regarding Yellowstone Park Superintendent
Box 130 Doane - Misc. In Fort Ellis Materials 26p
Box 131 Doane - Misc. In Fort Ellis Materials 31p
Box 132 J.V. Bogart - Yellowstone Expedition 10p
Box 133 1870 Report of Inspector General Hardie Rec.: The Baker Exp. 11p Col. Bakers Report 3p
Box 134 Inspector Gen. Hardies Report & Record of Baker 1870 Expedition. 39p

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Series 14: Audiotapes

Recordings made or collected by Merrill Burlingame on a wide variety of research topics. Among the interviewees are Malcolm Story and Harriette Cushman, along with Burlingame himself. Tapes 1 through 20 are on audiocassette. Tapes 21-30 are audiotape reels.

Box 135: 1. The Death of John Bozeman - M.G. Burlingame - Robin Machab March 31, 1983 Side A=#1 Side B=#2; 2. Death of John Bozeman...Side A=#3 (90 mins.); 3. Malcolm Story, Sons of Am. Revolution 2-22-1983 Side A=#1, Side B=#2 (60 mins.); 4. Malcolm Story 1st 1/3 (Side A) (90 mins.) Spring Hill Aug. 1982 - Oct. 7, 1982 (Side B); 5. Malcolm Story (90 mins.); 6. Lewis & Clark Pageant at Headwaters St. Park Aug. 1982; 7. Remembering A.H. Strand - 3-15-1982 #1,#2 (90 mins.) Faculty group at Margaret Paisley home.; 8. Mr. Skillman #1, #2 (60 mins.); 9. Mr. Skillman #3, #4 (60 mins.); 10. Mr. Skillman #5 (60 mins.); 11. Mary Sloan Interview; 12. Mary Sloan Interview; 13. Ray Mentzer - Ft. Ellis Gallatin Co. Hist. Society, Jan. 29, 1981 (Side 1)
Bayard Todd - Gallatin Gateway, March 12, 1981 (Side 2); 14. "A Rose..." re: 4H delegates going to Boise, Idaho; 15. "A Rose..."; 16. Harriet Cushman interview by Kit Miller; 17. John Colter; 18. Christmas story; 19. Harriette Cushman; 20. Merrill Burlingame, interview by Susan Gibb, October 17, 1992; 21. Unidentified family interview; 22. Gallatin Gateway 10-3-65; 23. Gallatin Gateway 10-3-65; 24. Mr. Robers, Mrs. Copping, November 19, 1966; 25. Mrs. Frasur & Mother; 26. Wiley Davis - the Chinese in Virginia City, Jan. 20, 1967; 27. Mrs. Brainard 11-66; 28. Mrs. Brainard 12-66; 29. Martha Palffy (W.P.C.); 30. Gene Quaw @ Bozeman City Hall w/ Mia History Group, Feb. 26, 1966 (W.P.C.); 31. Fred C. Krieg, 1968 (two reels)

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