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Ernest Calvin Baxter was a Twodot and Harlowton, Montana, banker, ranch investor and businessman who served in the state legislature, 1913-1917. This collection (1911-1948) includes correspondence, financial records, legal documents, court papers and subject files from Baxters' business interests in the Bank of Wheatland County, Twodot Land and Livestock Company, and Consumers' Oil Company.

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...

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The Hope Mining Company of St. Louis was a Missouri-based company with mining operations in Philipsburg, Montana. Records consist primarily of correspondence (1889-1901) between the home office in St. Louis and the mine office at Philipsburg (1889-1901). There is also correspondence with other companies about supplies, annual reports, and financial records.

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...