Summary

This collection is a sub-subgroup (sub-program) of the Montana Historical Society records, RS 499. MTHS' Outreach and Education (O/E) program oversees the Centennial Farm and Ranch Program. Please see the primary finding aid for more Montana Historical Society records. This collection consists of applications submitted for MTHS' Centennial Farm and Ranch Program.

Abstract T.C. Power was a Montana merchandise, transportation, mining, ranching, banking, and real estate magnate; and U.S. Senator from Montana from 1890 to 1895. Collection (1868-1950) includes personal, business, and political correspondence plus financial and legal papers of many of his business enterprises. Collection documents Power's involvement in military and Indian trade, steamboating, freighting, stage coach lines, mail contracts, cattle and sheep ranching, mining, banking, bridge...