This is an artificial collection, created by photocopying records from several different institutions to gather in one place all pertinent records of The Montana Study.

Records include correspondence (1943-1954) among Baker Brownell, Bert Hanson, Ruth Robinson, Joseph Kinsey Howard, the Rockefeller Foundation, the University of Montana, and others concerning the planning of the grant, the administration of the Study, and the progress of the various local study groups. In addition, there are conference materials; employee records; financial records; records of local study groups in Arlee, Conrad, Darby, Dixon, Hamilton, Lewistown, Libby, Lonepine, Stevensville, Troy, Victor, and Woodman; scattered minutes; organizational materials; reports; speeches and writings by Brownell, Hanson, Robinson, Howard, and others; and miscellany.

A small subgroup of Secondary Materials includes a Masters thesis by Carla Homstad entitled Small Town Eden : the Montana Study (University of Montana, 1987) and a manuscript of the 4th edition of Life in Montana, as seen in Wibaux, a Small Community by John L. Schwechton and Ray Gold (1976).