Abstract Edward Charles "Teddy Blue" Abbott was a Giltedge, Montana, cattleman, Fergus County school trustee, and author. The papers (1865-1963) contain general correspondence; financial records, including mortgages and taxes; clippings; photographs; legal documents; and writings. The latter contains handwritten and typed drafts of his autobiography, We Pointed Them North (1939). The general correspondence includes letters with co-author, Helena Huntington Smith, concerning various aspects of the...

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...