Montana and the American West
The Backside of a Log Cabin at The Old Brazell Ranch, 1954
Digital Collections
Collections About Montana and the American West
These collections capture the history and culture of Montana citizens from the mid-19th century onward. From the accounts of Montana citizens, communities, and businesses, the history of homesteading in region, notable founding families, and the building and growth of today’s Montana are documented.
0001 Gallatin County, Mont., School District records
0012 John Marion Robinson Family Papers
0015 United States. General Land Office Homestead Certificate to William Chiesman
0020 Lesley M. Heathcote Papers
0026 H.H. Mitchell Family Papers
0031 Castle Hotel Registration Books
0034 Grace Stone Coates Papers
0051 Hazel Christiansen Papers
0075 Malphus A. Switzer Reminiscence
0076 Fannie Louise Davis Ennis Speeches and Essay Transcripts
0085 Alice Marie Kleinschmidt Papers
0090 William L. Perkins Ledger
0100 McAllister, Montana Collection
0104 Samuel I. Gaskill Wagon Train Log
0107 Maynard Family Collection
0124 Laura Brown Zook Reminiscence
0127 Carl M. Yerrington, How Shall Montana Counties Handle Their Tax Deed Land?
0137 Madison County Centennial Writing Contest Collection
0145 Charles W. Pomeroy Papers
0147 Ralph Lumley Oral History Interview
0148 Dawson County Homestead Questionnaires
0150 Mary J. Buzzell Correspondence and Photographs
0154 Minnie Paugh oral histories
0170 Elizabeth E. Busick O'Neil Reminiscence and Photographs
0178 Rattlesnake Placer Claim File 10386
0195 Leah Gillies Olson Family Papers
0213 Montana Winter Fair Motion Picture
0217 Johnny Healy Frontier Sketches Scrapbook
0222 Clarence L. Oliver Reminiscences
0225 Sarah Raymond Herndon Papers
0244 Autobiography of James David Wood
0282 Edith R. Furman Photographs and Scrapbook
0292 Mary Hunter Doane Collection
0295 Madison County Commissioners Records
0298 Montana Institute of the Arts Bozeman History Group Records
0301 Rodger G. Kent, Ike Irish, the Placer Miner
0314 Newell G. Philbrick Papers
0317 Big Hole Commercial Company Cash Books
0335 Ellen Louisa Gordon Fletcher Papers
0336 Mary Redfield Lindsey Papers
0339 Lou Stocking Stewart papers
0354 History of Broadwater County Scrapbooks
0359 Doris Whithorn Research Files
0362 Conrad V. Anderson Papers
0368 Early Settlers of Salesville, Spanish Creek and Cherry Creek Basins
0369 John M. Comfort Collection
0375 Theo Norman Diary Transcription
0404 Della J. Rowland Reminiscence
0412 Walter and Martha Peoples Manuscript and Research Papers
0416 Cassandra O. Phelps Papers
0423 David J. Bailey Reminiscence
0435 Gloria Mahlum Musical Scores and Audiotape
0436 Wallis Huidekoper Collection
0437 Anaconda Smoke Case Defense Negatives
0441 Morris State Bank Records
0442 Two Dot, Montana Collection
0492 Report of Lieutenant Gustavus C. Doane
0498 To the Pioneers of Montana Autobiography
0524 Missouri to Montana in a Covered Wagon 1898
0533 Gallatin County Veterans Service Records
0540 The Maxey Mines Annotated Research Paper
0541 Elizabeth Berger Swan Papers
0551 Bozeman Deaconess Hospital Records
0552 Samuel D. McIlheny Letters
0560 Gallatin Farmers Alliance No. 4 of Montana Records
0561 Mrs. W.J. Beall Scrapbook
0568 Willliam H. Reed Interview
0570 Golden Valley Historical Society Organization Committee Records
0591 Arner Nelson, "Recollections of Homestead Days"
0631 Engelfried and Esler Records
0646 Columbus Creamery Company By-Laws
0650 Pondera History Association Files
0651 Willard Harris Oral History
0669 Story-Work Sheep Company Records
0680 John M. Bozeman Collection
0708 William W. Alderson Diary
0710 History of the Huntley Project
0724 History of Montana publication files
0730 Early Travel In Montana Essay
0736 Florence Isabel Penwell Papers
0761 Lewistown Public Library O.O. Mueller Collection
0768 Madison County Methodist Churches Scrapbook
0771 Thomas B. Brook Photographs
0777 Henry N. M. Rayner Papers
0781 Alexander Leggat Collection
0783 William Milnor Roberts Papers
0785 Smith-Mendenhall Family Papers
0791 L. Christine Bliss Seamans Papers
0796 Mark L. Lovell Manuscript
0798 Dorothy Floerchinger Collection
0811 Margaret Powell Kraenzel Manuscripts
0821 Daughters of the American Revolution. Mount Hyalite Chapter Records0828 Three Forks (Mont.) Lewis and Clark Observances Collection
0849 History of Nelson Story Audiotape Recordings
0851 Fort Ellis and Gustavus C. Doane Collection
0857 Charles L. Anceney Letters
0859 Livingston Anti-Merger Committee Records
0860 Duncan-Packer Family Papers
0865 Warren R. Evans Photographs
0869 Lehrkind Coal and Ice Company Records
0875 Montana Horse Breeders Association Records
0878 History of Broadwater County
0881 Advertising Card Scrapbook
0882 Irene Thatcher Scrapbooks
0883 Lemont A. Gates Day Books
0084 Mrs. Lester S. Willson Papers
0891 Alderson Family Collection
0902 Floyd T. Wood Weather Diary
0913 Clifton B. Worthen-James Fergus Collection
0918 J.M. Hamilton Photographs
0925 John S. Mendenhall Papers
0926 Emily Meredith Letter and Photographs
0945 Caroline McGill Collection
0982 National Forest Preservation Group Records
0992 Bozeman Claim Association Minutes
1000 Marguerita McDonald Research Papers on Bozeman Coal Fields and Gallatin City
1016 Gallatin County, Montana Tax Study
1018 Willson Company Collection
1028 Montana State Music Teachers Association Minutes
1030 World War II Ephemera Collection
1031 Montana Travel Slide Collection
1041 Charles C. Moore Recording
1068 Merrill G. Burlingame Historical Ephemera Collection
1070 Pacific Northwest History Conference Proceedings
1079 Bozeman Art Association Records
1082 Montana Society of Engineers Records
1088 Virginia W. Thompson Scrapbook
1089 Charles W. Cooley Interviews
1104 George W. Flanders Sr., Papers
1105 Milo Herrick Spaulding Photograph Album
1120 Madison County School District 14 Records
1124 Missouri Valley Authority Bibliography
1127 Montana Pioneer Memorial Essay Contest Entries
1137 Jeffers Family Collection
1146 Gallatin County Bicentennial oral histories
1169 Orison Miles Family Papers
1184 Samuel O'Connell letter to Franklin Linfield
1195 Adrien L. Hess Montana Science Fair Papers
1201 Grace Kamp Bates Research Papers
1228 The Sweet Pea Carnivals of Bozeman, Montana
1250 Walter Cooper and Eugene F. Bunker Papers
1253 Harriette Eliza Cushman Papers
1267 Life of Rudy Christianson
1348 Montana Dictations (Gallatin County)
1349 Camp Rimini Oral History Collection
1360 Letter to Respected Friends
1365 David B. Christie Family Letters
1377 Charlotte Stowe Autobiography
1407 Lester S. Willson Family Papers
1411 Sadie Elizabeth Owen Diary
1412 Nelson Story, Sr., Letter
1415 Daniel S. Tuttle Letter to G.H. Deshon
1428 James Henderson Letters to Dr. Wilfred D. Roy
1429 Margaret Patten Letter to “Alice”
2031 Lawrence S. Heberle Papers
2051 Minnie Paugh Madison Valley Research Papers
2067 Parson's Grove Telephone Company Records
2068 Thomas E. Futrall Records
2083 Gallatin County, Montana, Sheriff's Office Records
2091 Bridger Bowl, Inc. Records
2095 Harry L. and Gretchen Billings Papers
2096 Rocky Mountain Laboratory Records
2098 James S. Spray Collection
2101 Township Plats for Gallatin County
2121 Lucius Seymour Storrs Papers
2129 Bozeman Business Collection
2130 Bozeman Post Office Records
2131 Bozeman Weekly Chronicle Records
2134 Hoffman Mercantile Company Records
2137 Karst’s Kamp Guest Registers
2139 Plats to Accompany Schedules of Allotments on the Crow Indian Reservation
2140 Granite-BiMetallic Consolidated Mining Company Records
2147 Lillian E. H. Culver Papers
2151 Bozeman Fire Department Records
2153 Miles L. Tuttle Reminiscences
2154 Alpha Social Club minutes and Samuel Griffith Diary
2163 Tomlinson Family Log Books
2196 MSU student papers Pertaining to Montana History
2209 Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific Railroad Company Records
2245 Merrill G. Burlingame Papers
2268 Bozeman City Development Plans
2300 M.L. Wilson’s Avocation of Agricultural History
2301 Gallatin Valley Female Seminary Essay
2308 Montana City Directory Collection
2334 Esther Gaskins Price Papers
2336 Montana Works Progress Administration records
2341 Anna Zellick Oral History Collection
2350 New World Mining District Collection
2355 Sacajawea Audubon Society Records
2367 A.W. Miles Family Records
2369 Alexander Leggat Pamphlet Collection
2380 Sweet Pea Carnival Photo Album
2384 Virginia S. Burlingame Papers
2393 Bozeman Area Chamber of Commerce Records
2394 Bozeman Trail Heritage Conference Proceedings
2395 Manhattan Malting Company Records
2397 Ellen Louisa Gordon Fletcher Diary
2400 Bozeman Ministerial Conference Records
2401 Sanford Daniel Reed Diary
2402 Hussey, Dahler and Company Records
2419 Fergus Electric Cooperative Oral Histories
2421 Hamilton Presbyterian Church Records
2425 Salesville Post Office Records
2428 Raymond A. Mentzer papers
2429 Gallatin County Poor Fund Warrant Register
2439 Bozeman Business and Professional Women Records
2440 Charles P. Blakeley Papers
2448 Montana Study Research Collection
2453 Cole Family Photograph Album
2457 Fort Assinniboine Telegrams Received
2463 Virginia Bunker Barnett Papers
2478 Philip Thorpe Property Settlement Papers
2480 William Wallace McCrackin Diary
2488 Hamilton, Ballinger, Davidson, Bunnell, McAfee, and Weesner Family Papers
2499 Discovery Mining Company Records
2508 Lester S. Willson diaries
2518 Twin Bridges Post Office Records
2519 Rochester Post Office Cash Book
2521 Madison County School District 11 Records
2522 John T. P. Fletcher Ledger
2545 Rodney Wallace Page Family Papers
2550 Montana Biography Vertical File Collection
2561 Omega Beta Photograph Album
2575 Henry O. Fortin Scrapbook
2577 Henry F. Keyes Photograph Album and Diary
2582 Millard E. Peterson Scrapbook
2590 Kenneth W. Karsmizki Research Papers
2593 Drury L. Weatherhead Diary
2596 Richard H. Clow Family Papers
2599 Eleanor Roberts Baltzell Letter
2605 Myrtle May Crosby Letters
2616 Paul B. Davidson Watermark Collection
2618 Montana Environmental Health Association Papers
2620 Alice Josephine Shaw Scrapbook
2629 Uncataloged Map Collection
2630 Dr. Anthony M. McWatt Collection on Robert Pirsig
2631 Goetz, Baldwin and Geddes P.C. Legal Files on Stream Access Law
2642 Robert Pirsig Letter to Ted DuPont
Accession 12002 Montana State College, Office of the President Annual Reports Received
