Content Description Alfred Bertram Guthrie III interview (2015) interviewed by his grandson, Bronson Bruneua. Interviewee discusses his spending his youth on his grandparents' ranch in Choteau, MT; attending school and graduating in 1955 from Montana State University with a degree in animal husbandry; his military experience in the 1950s beginning with his basic trainign in 1956 at Fort Ord in California and Fort Lewis in Washington state; working in a speical detachment in Spokane, WA inspecting meat for...

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The Montana Volunteers was a volunteer military organization, primarily cavalry, formed by Executive directive to combat perceived Indian threats in the Territory. These records (1867-1868) consist of correspondence, financial records, reports, and miscellany, largely for the District of Helena.

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The Richardson Brothers Ranch was among the earliest homesteads in what is now Sheridan County, Montana. This collection includes four photograph albums containing 743 photographic prints and 180 loose photographs with views of life on the ranch, family portraits, vacation snaps, a military service album, and many other photographs from various Richardson family members from the 1880s to the 1990s.

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This collection consisits of photographs ranging from 1885 to 2015. The majority of the collection is photographs, at 512 of them. There are also 40 duplicate images, 13 oversize images, 4 albums (with a combined 857 photographs),3 negatives, and one cased image. The topics of the images are: Swaney family life, war, consulate work, horses, indians, and Montana.