Abstract Samuel T. Hauser (1833-1914) was a Helena, Montana, Territory, pioneer, territorial governor (1885-1886), and entrepreneur in the fields of banking, mining, smelting, ranching, railroads, irrigation, and hydro-electric power. More than fifty percent of the collection is incoming correspondence (1864-1914). There are also outgoing correspondence, financial records, legal documents, organizational records, and reports. Included are thirty-eight subgroups of the Hauser family and Hauser's...

Abstract The Hecla Consolidated Mining Company was a Glendale, Montana, gold and silver mining company. Records (1871-1900; 1921-1922) include incoming correspondence to mining department superintendent Samuel A. Barbour, interoffice correspondence (1877-1881) and letterpress books (1871-1886) of outgoing correspondence of general manager Henry Knippenberg. There are also employment records (1876-1922); financial records; a minute book (1898-1906); minor legal documents; production records; and...