A. B. Cook Papers, 1882-1940

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Cook, A. B. (Andrew B.), 1864-1928
Title
A. B. Cook Papers
Dates
1882-1940 (inclusive)
Quantity
26 linear feet of shelf space
Collection Number
MC 280
Summary
Andrew Cook was a Montana railroad contractor, state auditor, and later internationally known Hereford cattle breeder and rancher. Collection (1882-1940) consists of general correspondence, primarily concerning the A.B. Cook Stock Farms in Broadwater County; financial records; legal documents; reports; subject files; and financial and business records for Cook's ranching and contracting interests. There are subgroups for several of Cook's construction, ranching, and real estate businesses. [approximately 750 photographs and 4 scrapbooks were transferred to the Photographic Archives.]
Repository
Montana Historical Society, Library & Archives
Montana Historical Society Research Center Archives
225 North Roberts
PO Box 201201
Helena MT
59620-1201
Telephone: 4064442681
Fax: 4064445297
mhslibrary@mt.gov
Languages
English
Sponsor
Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Biographical NoteReturn to Top

Andrew Braid Cook was born on February 2, 1864, in Dundee, Wisconsin, the son of Cornelius and Margaret A. (Braid) Cook. After finishing his education in the public schools of Racine, Wisconsin, Cook attended the Spencerian Business College in Milwaukee and then became a bookkeeper for Charles J. Russell's coffee business in Milwaukee.

In 1883 he moved to Montana, where he held a variety of jobs over the next few years. He worked briefly shipping cattle for the 79 Ranch, as a clerk in the Blue Front Store in Billings, as a mule-skinner for a survey party on the Crow Indian Reservation, and as baggage master for the newly opened Northern Pacific Railroad office in Helena. He gained experience in railroad building working for Hugh Kirkendall and Peter Larson and for W.H. Guthrie and Company, including building the Wickes tunnel on the Montana Central Railroad south of Helena.

In 1889 he opened a real estate office in Missoula, in partnership with Frank W. McConnell. After McConnell, Cook and Company dissolved in 1892, Cook continued the business under his own name. He continued to manage his Missoula real estate holdings for the rest of his life, while devoting his major attention to his other occupations.

A.B. Cook was elected Montana State Auditor in 1892 and served one term. While serving as State Auditor he also established his own railroad construction business in partnership with Martin Wolfson. They negotiated a contract with the Northern Pacific to build a spur to the Parrot Smelter at Whitehall. Around 1905, Cook's Montana Concrete Construction Company got contracts in Livingston, Dillon, and Bozeman to do sidewalk work. He built the dam and irrigation canal system at Bynum Reservoir for the Teton Cooperative Reservoir Company.

As Cook, Deeks, and Hinds, and as the Toronto Construction Company he worked on the Canadian Pacific Railroad. In 1912 under South Dakota law, he incorporated the Cook Construction Company with Alexander McKenzie and L.L. Stephens. They opened an office in St. Paul, Minnesota, and a branch office in Montreal, Canada. Among the contracts this company obtained were the building of the Montreal Aqueduct, and the rebuilding of the Halifax, Nova Scotia, terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railroad, following a freighter explosion in 1917. The Cook Construction Company dissolved in 1921.

A.B. Cook, however, was best known as a Hereford cattle rancher. In 1907 he bought the Flying U Ranch at Bynum from F. Augustus Heinze and began to develop the prize-winning Hereford cattle herd which became the passion of his later life. He bought the beginnings of his herd from the John Wellcome Estate in Waterloo, Iowa. With the herd came George Sim who oversaw Cook's breeding program for many years. Around 1912, Cook moved his cattle operation to the Missouri River Valley north of Townsend. He bought three ranches there: the Dunleavy and Rorvig ranches near the outlet of Confederate Creek, and the Bedford Ranch on the west side of the river. He later added Sheep Ranch in Meagher County, the Newland Creek Ranch, the Hevey Ranch, and several smaller pieces. During the 1910s he also was a partner with Alexander McKenzie in the Stiles Cattle Company which had extensive holdings on the Standing Rock Reservation in North and South Dakota. In October 1928, after losing a major lawsuit, Cook was forced to sell his herd. He died a month later on November 24, 1928.

In April, 1908, A.B. Cook married Mary Morgan Pettingell, a native of Bowling Green, Kentucky. While quite young Mary had married Frank Hervey Pettingell, with whom she had two children: Frank Hervey and Mary Agnes. That marriage ended in divorce. A.B. Cook adopted Mary's children, giving them his last name. The Cooks had one daughter Gloria, born in 1916.

Frank Hervey Cook was born in 1899 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He attended St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, graduating in 1919. He assisted his adopted father on the ranch, and on the death of A.B. Cook operated the ranch on a smaller scale. In 1931 he married Lena (Sally) Gosnell Finley, heiress of the Gosnell oil fortune. She died of a heart ailment August 5, 1933. With the flooding of much of the Cook ranch property by Canyon Ferry Reservoir in 1953, Cook moved the Dunleavy house to the Bedford Ranch north of Townsend. Frank Hervey Cook was murdered there, in an apparent robbery attempt, on November 22, 1970.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

This collection consists of personal and business papers of A.B. Cook. The papers are divided into several major groupings: A.B. Cook's personal papers, his ranching records, his business records, his political records, and family papers.

The bulk of the correspondence (1888-1928) is in A.B. Cook's personal subgroup. This correspondence includes intermixed, personal, ranch, construction, and other business matters. Among the most substantive correspondence is that with his personal secretary Hazel Alsterberg, who conducted much of his business dealings. She reported to him regularly on the conduct of business. In addition to the correspondence, this subgroup includes court papers (1895-1929); financial records (1886-1928); legal documents (1886-1928) concerning Helena property holdings, mining claims, etc.; reports and subject files (1887-1928) concerning mining properties and other investments; and miscellany. There is a small subgroup of A.B. Cook Estate materials (1928-1932).

The A.B. Cook Stock Farms subgroup includes court papers (1890, 1921); employment records (1915-1954) including payrolls, time sheets, employment applications, and monthly labor reports; financial records (1913-1928), including inventories of the various ranches; legal documents (1882-1928) documenting the ranch properties; organizational records (1919) including articles of incorporation, bylaws and minutes; production records (1901-1933) consisting primarily of extensive Hereford cattle registration and breeding records; subject files (1912-1928) on a wide variety of topics; and miscellany.

The Flying U Ranch subgroup includes a small amount of general correspondence (1907-1911); employment records (1908-1909); financial records (1906-1912); and legal documents (1892-1912).

The Stiles Cattle Company subgroup consists of interoffice and general correspondence (1917-1928) concerning the operation of a ranch on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation; financial records (1918-1926); production records (1918-1923); and miscellany (1922-1924) including maps and lists of lands leased and purchased on the Standing Rock Reservation.

Records of A.B. Cook's Bynum Reservoir Contract consist of correspondence and court papers (1912-1914) of a lawsuit by the Teton Cooperative Reservoir Company; financial records (1908-1912); and legal documents (1909).

Records of Cook and Woldson, Railroad Contractors include correspondence, employment records, financial records, and legal documents (1895-1900) documenting work for the Gaylord and Ruby Valley Railway, the Montana Railroad, the railroad spur to the Parrot Smelter at Whitehall, and other jobs; and railroad specification and bid papers.

The Cook Construction Company subgroup consists of general and interoffice correspondence (1912-1925) of the offices of the company in St. Paul, Minnesota; Montreal, Quebec; and Halifax, Nova Scotia; court papers (1906-1907, 1914) including the seizure of company property by Canadian Customs, for alleged misquoting of value of equipment; financial records (1913-1921); an agreement (1916) with Wheaton Brothers for work on the Halifax Ocean Terminals Railway; copies of organizational records (1912-1921) re the founding and dissolution of the company; subject files (1911-1924) concerning various jobs contracted by the company including work in Sudbury, Ontario; Bulwer Junction, Minnesota; Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Montreal aqueduct and power development projects.

The Cook Tunnel Company / New Gould Mining Company subgroup includes general correspondence (1921-1928); and other materials concerning A.B. Cook's extension of the mining tunnel at Gould, Montana.

Records of McConnell, Cook, and Company and its successor A.B. Cook's Missoula real estate business consist of correspondence (1889-1928); financial records (1889-1928) including a lot ledger, financial statements, tax assessments, etc.; legal documents (1889-1929) including partnership agreements, deeds, certificates of redemption for delinquent taxes, etc.

The Montana Independent Telephone Company subgroup consists of general correspondence (1908-1915), prospecti, and subject files (1909-1913) concerning the merging of several small independent telephone companies into a statewide network.

There are minor business subgroups for the Banner Mining Company, the Buckeye Mining and Milling Company, the Gloria Mining Company, the Lexington Mining Company, the Montana Concrete Construction Company, the National Life Insurance Company of Montana, Shannon and Cook, the Silver Bow National Bank, the Toronto Construction Company, the Trail Creek Coal Company, and the Tuttle Land Company.

Documentation of A.B. Cook's activities in the "BRepublican Party include correspondence and financial records concerning the 1889 and 1892 elections; a petition for a post office for Tin Cup; petitions for Frank O. Lowden for President, and miscellaneous campaign materials.

The Frank Hervey Cook subgroup includes correspondence (1908-1949); financial records (1921-1955) consisting mostly of bank statements and cancelled checks for Cook, for the C.R. Cattle and Sheep Company, and the Cook Candy Company; several reports; and school records.

The Lena Gosnell Bowyer Finley Cook subgroup consists of incoming correspondence (1929-1933) from family and friends; financial statements (1929-1930); estate materials (1934); and European travel itineraries and brochures.

There are very small subgroups for Margaret A. Cook, for Mary Morgan Cook, for Gloria Cook, and for Mary Agnes Cook.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

by series

Processing Note

Processing Information:

The collection was in very difficult shape as received. Many boxes contained totally unsorted material which included correspondence, invoices, stock records, and legal documents, advertising brochures, and other material. Some records were severely water damaged, including several boxes of legal documents which could not be salvaged. [These should be available in the Broadwater and Missoula County courthouses.]

Records of all the various companies were split, with some letters filed under personal names, some under corporate names. Incoming letters to companies were often interfiled with letters from that company to Cook. During much of his later life, Cook divided his time between the ranch in Townsend, and Cook Construction Company offices in St. Paul, Montreal, and Halifax. He continued to conduct the business of all operations from all locations. Some attempt has been made to pull together the correspondence belonging to the different operations, but many letters are not where one would logically expect them to be. The researcher is encouraged to look in the personal, ranch, and corporated subgroups for all phases of Cook's life.

Acquisition Information

Acquisition Information:

available upon request

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection

A.B. Cook Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Biographical Materials
Box/Folder
1 / 1
Miscelleneous (includes clippings about A.B. Cook's career; obituaries of A.B. Cook and Mary M. Cook; term paper by Robert J. Weitz about Cook; notes by W.J. Hazelton re interview of F. Hervey Cook)
Incoming Correspondence
Box/Folder
1 / 2
A (correspondents include Ah Ping, Ah Wing, Albert B. Allen, John D. Allport, American Investments)
1892-1895
1 / 3
George E. Boos (Missoula Publishing Company)
1894-1895
1 / 4
Andrew Braid (grandfather)
1888, 1892
1 / 5
B (corresponents include A.L. Babcock, Bank of Choteau, James W. Barker, John B. Barr, F.M. Berry, H. Bishop, C.W. Blair, Frank E. Blakeslee, Theodore Brantly, William B. Brooks, C.M.F. Bush)
1893-1895
1 / 6
F.N. Carruthers (Walla Walla, Wash.; Eureka, Calif.)
1892-1895
1 / 7
Jane Clark (St. Paul, Minn.)
1901-1902
1 / 8
Frank Conley (Conley and McTague, re prisoners)
1894
1 / 9
Cook family (includes Cornelius Cook, Mary A. Cook)
1890-1905
1 / 10
F.W. Cowan (Missoula, Mont.)
1893-1894
1 / 11
C (correspondents include Henry Cable, A.M. Cannon, Carver and Mackay Tailors, E.J. Carter, R.H. Childs, John Church, H.H. Conable, Covenant Mutual Benefit Association, M.L. Crouch, Mary Cruse)
1893-1895, 1903
1 / 12
D-G (correspondents include Leonie Demers, C.T. Dillon, N.B. Donley, W.E. Dowell, E.D. Edgerton, John M. Evans, J.H. Fairchild, E.J. Field, Vin Fortune, William B. Foster, S.H. Garrick, Phil Gibson)
1893-1895, 1903
1 / 13
Frank Hall (Wagner Architectural Iron Works, Milwaukee, Wisc.)
1894-1895
1 / 14
O.B. Hardy (Akron, Ohio)
1893
1 / 15
S.P. Hull (Clinton, Conn.)
1893
1 / 16
H (correspondents include G.N. Hartley, P. Hayes, Charles Heckler, John Heil, Helena Board of Trade Committee, Frank Henry, Frank G. Higgins, A.P. Hollen, Harry Housman, Houston Narcotic Cure Company of Montana and Washington)
1893-1895
1 / 17
J-K (correspondents include C.B. Jacquemin and Company jewelers, Henry Johnson, A.P. Johnston, Kate Kaiser, R.W. Kay, M.H. Keefe, George H. Keep, A.T. Kellison, C.J. Kinna)
1893-1895
1 / 18
L (correspondents include Harry A. Lambert, Peter Larson, Phil E. Lawrence, G.V. Lewis, W.T. Lewis, W.E. Lindenborn, R.T. Love, R.A. Luke and Company)
1893-1895
1 / 19
M (correspondents include Lionel Manning, Lee Mantle, Thomas C. Marshall, J. Milton Martin, C.E. Mayne, W.A. Mentrum, Minnesota Saving Fund and Investment Company, Missoula University Club, Missoula Water Works and Milling Company, T.L. Mitchell, Miles Mix, Montana National Bank, George W. Morse, Gust Moser, George Mueller Jr.)
1893-1895
1 / 20
Mc (correspondents include John McConnell, J.A. McGowan, B.J. McIntire)
1893-1895
1 / 21
Northern Pacific Railroad Company (includes proposal for spur line from Whitehall to Parrot smelter)
1893-1895
1 / 22
N-Q (correspondents include New York Tribune, Mrs. John O'Connor, Ira N. Pardes, W.F. Parker, Parrot Silver and Copper Company, W.B. Parsons, W.A. Pennycook re Busk-Ivanhoe Tunnel, Phillip Peteler, Pneumatic Ore Milling and Mining Company, E.C. Pollard, R.D. Pollard, J.V. Quarles)
1893-1895
1 / 23
R (correspondents include N.C. Ray, W.H. Raymond, Jack Reed, Hugh Reese, Thomas Riach, T.L. Richards, R.M. Richardson, Risdon Iron and Locomotive Works, J.M. Robinson, Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone Company)
1891-1895
1 / 24
Alice Sanders [cousin]
1888-1908
1 / 25
Siegel and Heckler (The Montana Hotel, Missoula)
1893-1896
1 / 26
Calvin D. Sinclair (re Missoula property)
1892-1895
1 / 27
S-T (correspondents include Mary Shiland Scott, Alph Shipley, Albert Smith, A.J. Steele, E.W. Stetson, F.L. Sutermeister, Tyler B. Thompson, Eben P. Torrey, L.C. Trent and Company)
1893-1895
1 / 28
U-V (correspondents include Union Pacific System, Peter Valiton, J. Slack Vaughn)
1893-1895
1 / 29
W.C. Whipps (First National Bank, Kalispell)
1893-1895
1 / 30
E.A. Winstanley (Missoula, Mont.)
1893-1895
1 / 31
W (correspondents include Joseph W. Wallisch, E.M. and H.F. Ware, Carlos Warfield, Charles S. Warren, Lewis D. Webster, A.J. Wetzlar, David J. Whaley, A.F. Whitcomb, A.N. White, H.S. Whitsitt, H.B. Wiley, M.L. Wines, C.A. Wing, Peter Winne, Martin Woldson, G.F. Woodruff, C.E. Woodworth, W.F. Word, World's Congress Auxiliary of the World's Columbian Exposition, Ralph Worthington, H.W. Wright Lumber Company)
1893-1895
General Correspondence
Box/Folder
2 / 1-5
Hazel Alsterberg (Cook Construction Company, St. Paul, Minn.; letters concern primarily the ranch business, but also construction company business, Stiles Cattle Company, etc.)
1916-1928
2 / 6
A-Al (correpsontents include A.P. Adams, Dan Adamson, C.G. Adney, Advance-Rumley Thresher Company, Aetna Indemnity Company, Alaska Live Stock Company, Alberta Linseed Oil Company, Lester F. Albro, Teddy Alcott, Alfalfa Seed Association, Fred E. Allen, R.E. Allen, Almer Coe and Company)
1907-1928
2 / 7
American Association of Importers and Breeders of Belgian Draft Horses
1922-1928
2 / 8-15
American Hereford Cattle Breeders Association (correspondents include R.J. Kinzer, Robert H. Hazlett, Donald Davis)
1909-1928
2 / 16
American Hereford Journal
1916-1928
2 / 17
American Livestock and Loan Company (A.E. deRicqles)
1908-1924
2 / 18
American National Livestock Association
1917-1926
2 / 19
American Shire Horse Association
1910-1911
2 / 20
American Short Horn Breeders Association
1922-1925
3 / 1
Am-An (correspondents include American Bank and Trust Company, American Farm Bureau Federation, American Fur Breeder, American National Bank, American System of Irrigation Equipment, T.W. Ames, Anaconda Copper Mining Company, Charles Anceny, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, Ansley Land and Cattle Company)
1911-1928
3 / 2
E.F. Armstrong (Cardwell, Mont.)
1918-1924
3 / 3
Ap-Ay (correspondents include William Armington, Harry Armstead, E.A. Arnett, Thomas Arthur, Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, Auto Pump Company, Roy E. Ayers)
1915-1928
3 / 4
Bank of Toronto (re Toronto Construction Company)
1909-1911, 1920
3 / 5
Banking Corporation of Montana (Helena, Mont.)
1918-1927
3 / 6
Ba (correspondents include C.M. Bair, Frank D. Ball, Ballard and Company, Bank of Montreal, H.A. Barker, John C.E. Barker, D.F. Barry, Bartlett Hereford Ranch, E.L. Baugh, H.E. Baumann, E.J. Bawlf)
1914-1928
3 / 7
E.W. and G.D. Beattie [map of Teton County property in OVERSIZE FOLDER 1]
1907-1913
3 / 8
John Bechtold; Henry Bechtold (Sweetwater, Idaho)
1915-1923
3 / 9
Beckman Brothers, (Great Falls, Mont.; re furs)
1924-1928
3 / 10
Benson-Carpenter Company (Helena, Mont.)
1917-1928
3 / 11
Be (correspondents include Bear Creek Stock Growers' Association, James F. Bell, W.J. Bemmerly, Benson Commission Company, J.J. Bentz, August Benz enclosing poem, W.H. Berryman, Better Beef Association)
1907-1928
3 / 12
Bickett-Swett Live Stock Company (Cascade, Mont.)
1915-1926
3 / 13
Bi-Bj (correspondents include Walter M. Bickford, John Bielenberg, M.H. Bingham, Bernard F. Bird, Bitter Root Stock Farm, S.A. Biver, R.W. Bixby, M.O. Bjorge)
1915-1928
3 / 14
W.N.W. Blayney (Denver, Colo.)
1919-1925
3 / 15
Ed Bloomquist (Great Falls, Mont.)
1913-1926
3 / 16
Bl (correspondents include Blackfoot Forest Protective Association, S.M. Blair, E.G. Blome)
1911-1928
3 / 17
Bozeman Milling Company
1915-1927
3 / 18
Bo (correspondents include J.W. Bodner, D.D. Bogart, C.L. Boggs, A.W. Bonney, Boorman Lumber Company, Josiah Bowden, Clyde C. Bowers, Bowles Live Stock Commission Company, William Boyd)
1909-1928
3 / 19
J.P. Braden (Minn. and Ont.)
1914-1924
3 / 20
Breeders Printing Company; Breeders Gazette
1917-1928
3 / 21
George Warren Brewster (Birney, Mont.)
1927-1928
3 / 22
W.G.C. Britten (Hereford, England)
1916-1917, 1924
3 / 23
Broadwater County offices
1917-1928
3 / 24
Brown (correspondents include A.V. Brown, Agiles H. Brown, Harry W. Brown, James H. Brown, John Brown Schools)
1910-1928
3 / 25
Br (correspondents include Leonard Bradshaw, Harlan H. Bradt, Herbert A.B. Brady, Thomas E. Brady, John C. Brenner, Carl J. Briggs, William Briggs, John Brinkman, British-American Land and Investment Company, British Columbia Stock Breeders Association, Broadwater Irrigation District, George F. Brooks, Brosseau Poultry Farm)
1907-1928
3 / 26
Bu-By (correspondents include Fred and Margaret Bubser, Bud Buchanan, Bucyrus Company, Buffalo Bill Ranch, Henry W. Buford, C.B. Bull, George W. Bull, Frederick Burbidge, Frank E. Burch, J.H. Burson, Paul Butler, Butte Miner, Buyers' and Sellers' Live Stock Association)
1909-1928
4 / 1
J.N. Camden (Versailles, Ky.)
1921-1928
4 / 2
James Campbell (re show herd)
1922-1925
4 / 3
John W. Campbell (New York, N.Y.)
1921-1922
4 / 4
Canadian Hereford Breeders Association; Canadian National Live Stock Records
1918-1925
4 / 5
W.T. Cann (Virden, Manitoba)
1927-1928
4 / 6
Cab-Cap (correspondents include Caird Engineering Works, Calgary Industrial Exhibition, California International Livestock Show Corporation, J.W. Callahan, Gordon Campbell, Canadian government agencies)
1907-1927
4 / 7
Axel A. Carlson (re demobilization)
1919
4 / 8
Thomas H. Carter (U.S. Senator)
1909-1912
4 / 9
J.I. Case Threshing Machine Company
1925-1928
4 / 10
Thomas C. Cashman (includes speech at Minnesota Farm Bureau Federation)
1926-1928
4 / 11
Casteel Land Company (Lewistown, Mont.)
1924-1927
4 / 12
Car-Cav (correspondents include Ed Cardwell, John Carlson, R.A. Carnochan, L. Ray Carroll, Richard R. Carryl, Cascade International Stock Show, Cascade-Teton Farm Lands Company, J.J. Case Plow Works, E.M. Cassady, Castleman Brothers, The Cattleman, H.S. Cavitt)
1907-1928
4 / 13
Cedar Falls National Company
1927-1928
4 / 14
Ce (correspondents include Central Montana Sheepgrowers' Association, Centro de Informacion Agricola, Cuba)
1909-1928
4 / 15
Fred Chandler (Chariton, Iowa)
1924-1926
4 / 16
W.E. Chapman (Riparia, Wash.)
1925-1928
4 / 17
Chester Charlton (Bridesville, B.C.)
1917, 1927-1928
4 / 18-19
Chicago, Milwaukee and Puget Sound Railway (includes claims for cattle killed)
1914-1928
4 / 20
Chicago (correspondents include Chicago and North Western Railway Company; Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company; Chicago Live Stock Exchange)
1910-1928
4 / 21
H.W. Child (Helena, Mont.)
1915-1924
4 / 22
A.M. Chisholm (re Butte, Mont. property)
1926
4 / 23
Ch-Ci (correspondents include H.D. Chapman, R.B. Chappell, Edd Chase, Chase National Bank, L. Chatterton, Chauncey Wright Restaurant Company, W.W. Cheely, Chewacan Land and Cattle Company, Carl A. Church, Citizens National Bank)
1910-1928
4 / 24
Clapp, Norstrom and Riley (Minneapolis, Minn.)
1909-1921
4 / 25
Alfred H. Clarke (Flying H Ranch)
1923-1926
4 / 26-28
John Clay and Company
1919-1928
5 / 1
Clay, Robinson and Company
1914-1920
5 / 2
Cliff Clevenger (Dallas, Pa.)
1921-1927
5 / 3
Clinton Falls Nursery Company (Owatonna, Minn.)
1926-1928
5 / 4
Cl (correspondents include H. Earl Clack Company, K.A. Clark, Sheldon Clark, K.S. Cleveland, Climax Corporation, Ralph Close)
1904-1928
5 / 5
Collins Land Company; Jeremiah Collins (re land scrip)
1916-1926
5 / 6
P.M. Collins (Toronto, Ont.)
1912
5 / 7
Columbia Basin Wool Warehouse Company
1918-1921
5 / 8
F.T. Colver (Mocassin Mountain Stock Ranch, Brooks, Mont.)
1927-1928
5 / 9
Frank Conley (Deer Lodge, Mont.)
1921-1928
5 / 10
F.B. Connelly Company (Billings, Mont.)
1918-1926
5 / 11
Continental Oil Company
1918-1928
5 / 12
Frank Hervey Cook
1920-1928
5 / 13
Mary A. Cook
1912-1924
5 / 14
Cook [non-relatives]
1912-1928
5 / 15
Cook, Deeks, Hinds and Company [predecessor of Cook Construction Company]
1907-1909
5 / 16
Cook Stock Farm / A.B. Cook Stock Farms (Ivan Davis)
1917-1918
5 / 17
Cook Stock Farm / A.B. Cook Stock Farms (Frances Firkey)
1923
5 / 18
Cook Stock Farm / A.B. Cook Stock Farms (C.D. Hall)
1925-1928
5 / 19-23
Cook Stock Farm / A.B. Cook Stock Farms (Axel Holmstrom)
1917-1928
6 / 1
Cook Stock Farm / A.B. Cook Stock Farms (Iver Holth)
1923-1926
6 / 2
Cook Stock Farm / A.B. Cook Stock Farms (H.S. Hov, includes inventory of ranch house at Dunleavy Ranch)
1916-1918
6 / 3
Cook Stock Farm / A.B. Cook Stock Farms (H.B. Shoop, auditor)
1917
6 / 4
Cook Stock Farm / A.B. Cook Stock Farms (Mae Sim; Mae Simpkins)
1919, 1925
6 / 5-10
Cook Stock Farm / A.B. Cook Stock Farms (George Sim)
1915-1919, 1922
6 / 11
Cook Stock Farm / A.B. Cook Stock Farms (Grace Van Winkle)
1926-1928
6 / 12-14
Cook Stock Farm / A.B. Cook Stock Farms (telegrams)
1916-1919, n.d.
6 / 15
Coomac Oil Fields, Ltd. (Thomas H. Rea) [maps in OVERSIZE FOLDER 1]
1914-1918
6 / 16
Cooper (correspondents include Charles H. Cooper, E.N. Cooper, Hugh L. Cooper, Stuart Cooper)
1921-1928
6 / 17
H.D. Cornish (Cornish and Patten, Osborn, Mo.)
1909
6 / 18
C.N. Cosgrove (Minnesota Valley Canning Company)
1921-1925
7 / 1
Co (correspondents include Coffin Brothers, Robert H. Cole, Coleman and Reitze, F.V.H. Collins, Commercial National Bank, Condon Commission Company, J.D. Conrad, Robert H. Cosgrove)
1909-1928
7 / 2
Cr (correspondents include Crane and Ordway Company, Harry C. Cranke, J.W. Crawford, Burke H. Critchfield, L.L. Crockett, J.C. Cronk, Harry Cross, Oscar Crutchfield)
1909-1928
7 / 3
Curtis Publishing Company
1919-1922
7 / 4
Cu (correspondents include O.E. Culbert, William A. Culbertson, Cunningham Sheep Company)
1909-1928
7 / 5
Dallman and Cooper Supply Company (Fond du Lac, Wisc.)
1918-1923
7 / 6
J.F. Dauterman (Alder, Mont.)
1928
7 / 7
John F. Davies (Butte, Mont.)
1908-1917
7 / 8
Davis (correspondents include Donald D. Davis, Harry C. Davis, M.E. Davis, Mrs. Perry Davis, Russell S. Davis)
1914-1926
7 / 9
Da (correspondents include A. Danielson, Fred Dart, A.F. Daughenbaugh, Mabel Davidson, John Day)
1909-1928
7 / 10
Deeks and Deeks, Contractors (re dissolution of partnership with Cook)
1909
7 / 11
Deere and Webber Company; John Deere and Company
1911, 1922-1928
7 / 12
Denver Joint Stock Land Bank (Harry Henderson)
1924-1928
7 / 13
Denver Union Stockyards
1916, 1923
7 / 14
De-Di (correspondents include Elmer Deebach, Deer Lodge Farms Company, DeLaval Separator Company, Delaware Land and Development Company, Denver Record-Stockman, W.A. Depuy, DeRicqles Agency, W.P. Devereux Company, F.W. Dickey, H.N. Dion)
1912-1928
7 / 15
John O. Donovan (Butte, Mont.)
1922-1926
7 / 16
Double L Bar Ranch (Glen Billings and Una Kaufman, Cody, Wyo.)
1928
7 / 17
Do (correspondents include James Dodd, J.A. Doherty, George Doi, W.H. Donald, Dooley Brothers, Samuel R. Douglas, Lee F. Doyle)
1909-1928
7 / 18
Drexel State Bank of Chicago
1923-1928
7 / 19
W.S. Dudley (Kentucky River Coal Corporation)
1925-1928
7 / 20
Dr-Dy (correspondents include F.W. Drake, J. Sterling Drake, A.W. DuBois, W.D. Duke, Charles Dumont, G. Dupont, Pierre Duryea, Paul Dysart)
1914-1928
7 / 21
Eads Live Stock Company (Rolla P. Heren, Eads, Colo.)
1924-1928
7 / 22
Eaton's Ranch (Wolf, Wyo.)
1923-1928
7 / 23
J.E. Edwards (Forsyth, Mont.)
1911-1925
7 / 24
J.H. Empson (Helena, Mont.)
1917-1924
7 / 25
John M. Evans (U.S. Representative)
1925-1927
7 / 26
Exemption Board (re World War I draft)
1918
7 / 27
E (correspondents include Eastern Montana Ranches Inc., James Eckford, V.T. Edmunds, Adolph H. Eiselein, Eldorado Cooperative Canal Company, Electric Wheel Company, Bessie M. Elliott, J.C. Epperson, John Etchart)
1909-1928
8 / 1
Farmers Advocate and Home Journal
1918-1920
8 / 2
Farwell, Ozman, Kirk and Company
1909-1925
8 / 3
Fa (correspondents include Thomas Fagan; Douglas Fairbanks; Fairbanks, Morse and Company; Farm and Ranch Review; Farmer and Breeder; John H. Farmer; Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank of Minneapolis; Farmers and Miners State Bank; Farmers' Magazine; L.L. Farr; Frank Farrar)
1909-1928
8 / 4
Federal Land Bank of Spokane
1925-1928
8 / 5
W.M. Ferguson (Hysham, Mont.)
1925-1926
8 / 6
Fe (correspondents include Federal Machinery and Equipment Company, Robert Feigel, Fenner and Beane, Fergus County)
1917-1926
8 / 7-9
The Field and El Campo (published by Advanced Agricultural Publishing Company and American International Publishing Company; A.B. Cook served on board)
1915-1928
8 / 10
Field and Stream
1917-1928
8 / 11
First National Bank (many different towns and cities)
1908-1928
8 / 12
Fitzsimmons-Pierce-Frick Live Stock Commission Company
1920-1921
8 / 13
Fi (correspondents include A.B. Ficke, James S. Finlen, First Congregational Church of Billings, J.U. Fish, Lawrence L. Fisher)
1908-1928
8 / 14
George P. Flannery (includes Alexander McLean Estate)
1909-1924
8 / 15
Fl (correspondents include John J. Fleming, J.H. Flick Construction Company, H.J. Flint, Alvah B. Flood, Harry L. Fluke)
1912-1927
8 / 16
Shirley S. Ford (Great Falls National Bank)
1917-1926
8 / 17
Vincent Fortune (re Oregon and Washington timber land)
1907
8 / 18
Fo (correspondents include John Forbis, Forestvale Cemetery Association, Walter S. Fortiner, Four Wheel Drive Auto Company, Fowler Serum Company)
1907-1928
8 / 19
Charles Friend and Son (St. Paul, Minn.)
1921-1928
8 / 20
H.B. Fulmer (P.K. Ranch, Sheridan, Wyo.)
1926-1928
8 / 21
Fr-Fu (correspondents include H.A. Frank, D.G. Frame, Franklin Paint Company, Ed Franz, Ed A. Fraser, O.G. Frederick, F.W. Friend, Peter Fuhrman)
1907, 1911-1928
8 / 22
Albert J. Galen (Helena, Mont.)
1920-1928
8 / 23
James L. Galen (Seattle, Wash.)
1912-1927
8 / 24
P.N. Gallaher (Basin, Wyo.)
1911
8 / 25
Goelet Gallatin (Big Horn, Wyo.)
1928
8 / 26
John and Nelson Gallinger (Leedy, Mont.)
1923-1928
8 / 27
H.C. Gardiner (Mount Haggin Land and Livestock Company, Anaconda Copper Mining Company)
1909-1927
8 / 28
C.R. Garner and Company (Amarillo, Tex.)
1914-1927
8 / 29
Ga-Ge (correspondents include G.O.S. Cattle Company, John Gaffke, A.S. Gage, Gallatin Valley Milling Company, Warren Gammon and Son, E.D. Gantt, Dan Garrison, Gary Hay and Grain Company, Geary Brothers, C.H. Gerber, Gerlach-Barklow Company)
1910-1928
8 / 30
Edgar Gibson (Great Falls, Mont.)
1925-1927
8 / 31
W.H. Gleason (Kalispell, Mont.)
1926
8 / 32
Gi-Gl (correspondents include Walter C. Giebel, Gilchrist Brothers, Louis Gilger, Chester Glass, L.D. Glenn, Globe Serum Company)
1909-1928
8 / 33
Godfrey and Burdick Live Stock Commission (Helena, Mont.)
1910
9 / 1
Goldberg Hide and Fur Company; Goldberg Fur Company; Leo M. Goldberg Fur and Wool House (Helena, Mont.)
1916-1928
9 / 2
Sam Goodman (Helena, Mont.)
1917
9 / 3
Gordon and Ferguson (furs, St. Paul, Minn.)
1921-1926
9 / 4
Gover's Strain of S.C. White Leghorns (Denver, Colo.)
1920-1921
9 / 5
Sam D. Goza (Helena, Mont.)
1910-1927
9 / 6
Go (correspondents include O.F. Goddard, Leonard Goettlich, Wallace and E.G. Good, J.A. Gordon)
1909-1928
9 / 7
Grain Growers' Guide
1918-1920
9 / 8
Duncan A. Grant (Tofino, B.C.)
1922-1923
9 / 9
Great Northern Railway Company
1909-1928
9 / 10
Great Western Sugar Company
1918-1923
9 / 11
H.P. Griffin (Belgrade, Mont.)
1911-1928
9 / 12
Gr (correspondents include George M. Grace, Graham Scientific Breeding School, Greater North Dakota Association, Green Meadow Farm, Greenfield Advertising Agency, Charles D. Greenfield, H.P. Greenough, Ulysses Gribble, Ben Groseclose, P.M. Gross, G.W. Grutz)
1915-1928
9 / 13-15
Milton S. Gunn (Helena, Mont.)
1912-1925
9 / 16
Gu-Gy (correspondents include Samuel R. Guard, F.P. Guidry, Arthur Guiterman enclosing poem re William Gibbs McAdoo, Gypsum Industries)
1919-1928
9 / 17
Haggart Construction Company (Fargo, N.D.)
1918-1926
9 / 18
Herbert Haight (Suffolk, Mont.)
1918-1928
9 / 19
H.E. Haley and Company (investments)
1918
9 / 20
W.H. Hall (Butte, Mont.)
1913-1915
9 / 21
Joseph A. Hanlon (Billings, Mont.)
1922-1925
9 / 22
Julius Hansen (Missoula, Mont.)
1913
9 / 23
Haa-Han (correspondents include John H. Haak, Charles Hageman, George W. Haggard, Charles S. Hale, Henry M. Halff, E.H. Halloway, Hamilton Farm, W.E. Hamilton, R.F. Hanks)
1907-1928
9 / 24
Richard A. Harlow (Moore and Lewistown, Mont.)
1917-1928
9 / 25
Har-Haz (correspondents include Hardesty Manufacturing Company, F.W. Harding re Toliver Placer, Harding Memorial Association, A.L. Harris, Clifford B. Harris, Haskell Institute, A.J. Haubert, Charles E. Havener, A.E. Hawes, Hawkeye Lightning Rod Company, Glenn G. Hayes, Pat Hayes)
1910-1928
9 / 26
William Randolph Hearst; Hearst Corporation (San Simeon, Calif.)
1921-1927
9 / 27
R.P. Heidrish (Whitehall, Mont.)
1927-1928
9 / 28
F. Augustus Heinze (Butte, Mont.)
1906-1912
9 / 29
Helena, City of
1909-1926
9 / 30
Helena Commercial Club [blueprint map of Great Northern Park in OVERSIZE FOLDER 1]
1914
9 / 31
Helena (correspondents include Helena Automatic Telephone Company, Helena Clearing House Association, Helena Country Club, Helena Good Roads Association, Helena Power Transmission Company, Helena Skookum Chix Hatcheries)
1907-1928
9 / 32
Charles W. Helmick (Helena, Mont.)
1921-1925
9 / 33
Thomas H. Herrin (Helena, Mont.)
1918-1921
9 / 34
P.T. Hervin (Great Falls, Mont.)
1913-1917
9 / 35
He (correspondents include Healey and Company, L.E. Heaton, C.B. Heinemeyer, Oscar Hemgren, Harry B. Henderson, Walter S. Henderson, Henningsen Land Company, Charles B Herrick, Charles E. Herron, J.K. Hessey, J.J. Hetherington)
1906-1928
10 / 1
Robert F. Hildebrand (photographer of animals)
1917-1924
10 / 2
Albert Hill (Alexandria, S.D.)
1916-1919
10 / 3
C.P. Hill (Montreal, Que., includes report on Western Virginia coal property)
1917-1919
10 / 4
William Hislop (Hislop Sheep Company, Spokane, Wash.)
1917-1923
10 / 5
Hi (correspondents include D.J. Hickey, George F.H. Hicks, Highland Livestock Company, Roland Hill, S.T.H. Hill, Walter J. Hill, Hillandale Farm, A.F. Hinricks)
1909-1928
10 / 6
Hoar Shovel Company
1926
10 / 7
T.D. Hobart (Pampa, Tex., includes Mrs. C. Adair Estate)
1924-1928
10 / 8
G.A. Hoepfner (Wallace Ranch, Jens, Mont.)
1918-1927
10 / 9
Orlin Holcomb (H.O. Ranch, Rapid City, S.D.)
1926
10 / 10
A.M. Holter Hardware Company (Helena, Mont.)
1913-1928
10 / 11
Horse Association of America
1921-1928
10 / 12
John Hoy (re politics)
1921-1925
10 / 13
Ho (correspondents include Hoard's Dairyman, Robert V. Hoffman, J.C. Holbert, T.B. Holker, H.E. Holroyd, Holt Manufacturing Company, William L. Hoopes, Herbert Hoover, Andrew W. Hopkins, Royal E. House, D.M. Howard, Frank D. Howard)
1909-1928
10 / 14
F.R. Hudson (Elkhorn, Mont.)
1927-1928
10 / 15
Mark Hunt (Willow Spring Farm, White Sulphur Springs, Mont.)
1918-1924
10 / 16
George E. Hurd (Great Falls, Mont., re Diamond Bar Ranches Company and Diamond Ranch Company)
1921-1927
10 / 17
Hygeia Ice Company (Montreal, Que., includes Carlos Warfield)
1913
10 / 18
Hu-Hy (correspondents include Howard G. Huber, Wallis Huidekoper, W.A. Huff, W.W. Hulce, Hun Foo, W.S. Hunnewell, Sherman Hunt, W.G. Hunter, W.S. Hunter, W.W. Huntsberger, J.W. Hurd, Lewis S. Hurtig, M.G. Hutchins)
1910-1928
10 / 19
Idaho Agricultural Experiment Station
1918-1926
10 / 20
Arthur W. Ide (Helena, Mont.)
1907
10 / 21
International (correspondents include International Anna Maud Hallam Clubs of Practical Psychology, International Belgian Horse Show, International Harvester Company, International Live Stock Exposition)
1915-1925
10 / 22
I (correspondents include Improved Clip Company, Industrial Locating Corporation, Inter-Mountain Fair, Inter-Mountain Milling Company, Inter-Southern Oil and Refining Company, Iowa State College, Elizabeth Ireland, Charles Irvine, William Irvine, Kenneth Ischs, Hal B. Ives)
1913-1928
10 / 23
James Manufacturing Company (re new barn)
1918
10 / 24
Wendell Jardine (Jardine Hot Springs, Jackson, Mont.)
1925-1926
10 / 25
Ja-Je (correspondents include Jackson [Miss.] Board of Trade, Newton Jacobson, George J. Jaeger, B.A. Jahn, Ernest Jarvis, Ella Jens, George Jeppesen)
1915-1928
10 / 26
John Johanson case (re First National Bank of Libby)
1926
10 / 27
Johnson (correspondents include A.R. Johnson, Eric Johnson, Jake Johnson, P.P. Johnson, Wilfred Johnson)
1909-1928
10 / 28
A.P. Johnston (Superior, Mont.)
1906-1907
10 / 29
Clarence H. Johnston, Architect (re ranch house) [architectural drawings in OVERSIZE FOLDER 2]
1915, 1918
10 / 30
Johnston (correspondents include Johnston and Ward Investments, James H. Johnston, Lawrence Johnston, Fred Johnston)
1921-1928
10 / 31
H.F. Jones (Butte, Mont. re Lexington Mine)
1917-1918
10 / 32
Jones (correspondents include Earl T. Jones, Frank Jones, Garnet G. Jones, J.F. Jones Lumber Company, Robert N. Jones, Thomas Jones, W.T. Jones)
1921-1928
10 / 33
Jo-Ju (correspondents include Jockey Club, Johns- Manville Company, John Jonas, W.J. Jordan, G.R. Jowell, Judson Freight Forwarding Company)
1915-1928
11 / 1
Kansas Blackleg Serum Company
1919, 1925-1927
11 / 2
Ka (correspondents include Kansas City Club, Kansas City Journal-Post, Kaul Lumber Company)
1916, 1927-1928
11 / 3
Ken-Caryl Ranch Company (Littleton, Colo., includes Frank J. Smith, Margaret Kimmel)
1924-1926
11 / 4
John B. Kendrick (U.S. Senator, Wyoming)
1918-1928
11 / 5
Fred I. Ker (Hamilton, Ont.)
1922-1927
11 / 6
Harry H. Keyes (Armour Leather Company, Chicago, Ill.)
1924-1925
11 / 7
Ke (correspondents include J.S. Keerl, Frank Kelly, P.J. Kelly, Charles E. Kendall, E.M. Kennedy, J.E. Kennedy, Kentucky Tobacco Products Company)
1909-1928
11 / 8
J.C. Kinzer, Hartland Farm (Versailles, Ky., see also American Hereford Cattle Breeders Association)
1921-1928
11 / 9
Finor[?] Kirschbaum (White Sulphur Springs, Mont.)
1917
11 / 10
Frank Kirscher (Twete, Mont.)
1924-1926
11 / 11
Ki-Kl (correspondents include W.E. Kierstead, Charles Killick, Peter Killorn, J.W. Kilpatrick, Richard R. Kilroy, Tom King, Mrs. Hugh Kirkendall, John Klippstein, George S. Klotz)
1908-1928
11 / 12
M.E. Knowles; Knowles Veterinary Supply Company (Helena, Mont.)
1906-1926
11 / 13
Charles C. Krug (Marsh, Mont.)
1925-1926
11 / 14
Kn-Ky (correspondents include Kenneth Knight, A.J. Knollin, Edward Knowles, R.R. Kreps)
1913-1928
11 / 15
Thaddeus S. Lane (Spokane, Wash., see also Montana Independent Telephone Company subgroup)
1913-1927
11 / 16
Edwin Lausier (Bridgeport, Conn., New York, N.Y.)
1906-1928
11 / 17
La (correspondents include Carl Laemmle, Lake Superior Loader Company, G.E. Lane, George Lane and Company, Ltd., H.L. Lantz, Alfred Lapier, John LaPorte, Henry Larson, Jack Lawrence, Oliver C. Lawson, Layne and Bowler Company)
1924-1928
11 / 18
Scott Leavitt (U.S. Representative)
1924-1928
11 / 19
William LeBorious (Illinois Steel Bridge Company; Stiles Ranch)
1921-1927
11 / 20
LeClare and Cruse; A.F. LeClare (Missoula, Mont.)
1921-1924
11 / 21
Charles R. Leonard (Butte, Mont.)
1921-1923
11 / 22
Le (correspondents include W.T. Leahy, Robert G. Leavitt, B. Leopold Furs, George M. Lewis, Lon I. Lewis, Lewistown Chamber of Commerce)
1914-1928
11 / 23
Liberty Storage and Warehouse Company (New York, N.Y. re shipment of Mrs. Cook's household goods)
1909, 1917, 1919
11 / 24
Louis Lienemann (Butte, Mont.)
1924-1926
11 / 25
Live Stock Photo Company (Chicago, Ill.)
1924-1928
11 / 26
D.O. Lively (Panama-Pacific International Exposition)
1915-1917
11 / 27
Li (correspondents include Lindsay Helena Company, C. August Linn, Livestock Service, Livingston and Company)
1909-1928
11 / 28
J.B. Long and Company (Great Falls, Mont., includes R.F. Clary)
1909-1928
11 / 29
Louden Machinery Company (St. Paul, Minn.)
1915-1928
11 / 30
Frank Lowden (Oregon, Ill., includes presidential candidacy, 1928)
1921-1928
11 / 31
Lo-Ly (correspondents include R.N. Lodge, Long-Bell Lumber Company, H.C. Lookabaugh Oil Company, Frederick Loomis, Lowell Brothers and Talbott, M.K. Luther, Frederick B. Lynch, Lyon Iron Works)
1914-1928
11 / 32
Murdo Mackenzie (Boston Cattle Company, National Live Stock Shippers League, Matador Land and Cattle Company)
1921-1927
11 / 33
Fletcher Maddox (Great Falls, Mont.)
1911, 1921
11 / 34
D. Magee's Sons, Ltd., Hatters and Furriers (St. John, New Brunswick)
1912-1913
11 / 35
R.J. Mancantelli (Toronto, Ont.)
1909-1912
11 / 36
Maa-Man (correspondents include Maas and Steffen, Fred Mabee, S.M. Mace, Roderick R. Macleary, J.W. Maddux, George A. Madson, Magness Brothers Auctioneers, Stephen A. Mahaffey, H.W. Main, Maine Agricultural Experiment Station, Claude Makin, Malin-Yates Company, John B. Maling, L.C. Mallory, A. L. Malott)
1907-1928
12 / 1
Thomas A. Marlow (Helena, Mont., see also A.B. Cook and Company subgroup)
1909-1922
12 / 2
Marcus M. Marshall (Marshall Properties Holding Company, Los Angeles, Calif.)
1927
12 / 3
Matador Land and Cattle Company (Trinidad, Colo.; includes William Kerr, John McBain, M.J. Reilly)
1918-1922
12 / 4
John Matthews (Townsend, Mont.)
1919-1922
12 / 5
Mayo Clinic (Rochester, Minn.)
1925-1928
12 / 6
Mar-May (correspondents include Marion Steam Shovel Company, Ole Markuson, Stephen Marmant, Marrion Well Drilling Company, Marshall Field and Company, Henry W. Marshall, Marshall-Wells Hardware Company, Martinsdale Live Stock Company, Joe Marzen, Joe Mason, G.L. Mathews, Ernest R. May, Theodore Mayer)
1906, 1011-1928
12 / 7
McCaull-Dinsmore Company (Helena, Mont.)
1922-1923
12 / 8
Frank W. McConnell (Dallas and El Paso, Tex.)
1909-1917
12 / 9
W. Milton McCoy (Circle V Ranch, Big Horn, Wyo.)
1925-1927
12 / 10
Warren T. McCray (Orchard Lake Stock Farm, Kentland, Ind.)
1917-1921
12 / 11
McA-McC (correspondents include A.B. McAdam, C.W. McCampbell, H.E. McCausland, Harry J. McClean, Mike and Thomas McCormick, Charles McCrea, Sen. J.P. McCumber)
1909-1928
12 / 12
K.C. McFarland (Tacoma, Wash.)
1914-1915
12 / 13
John McGinnis (Butte, Mont.)
1908-1918
12 / 14
B.J. McIntire (Kalispell, Mont.)
1908-1909
12 / 15-16
McIntyre Ranching Company, Ltd. (William H. McIntyre, McGrath, Alta.)
1918-1928
12 / 17
Alexander McKenzie (re Republican politics, mining venture; see also Cook Construction Company subgroup)
1909-1920
12 / 18
McD-McK (correspondents include A.J. McDonald, McElroy Ranch Company, James McFarlane, E.A. McHardy, Hugh McKee, W.K. McKenzie, George McKethen)
1909-1928
12 / 19
C.M. McLeod (Missoula Mercantile Company)
1924-1926
12 / 20
James and Mary McNaught (Silverton, B.C.)
1911
12 / 21
Taylor McNiven (Livingston, Mont.)
1926-1928
12 / 22
P.C. and Emelia McStravick (Kalispell, Mont.)
1922-1927
12 / 23
McL-McV (correspondents include John A. McLean, Walter S. McLean, William J. McLean, C.H. McLemore, Robert D. McNab, McNamara and Marlow, McNeel Marble Company, Mrs. Rory McQueen, J.H. McShane Timber Company)
1906-1928
12 / 24
Meagher County offices
1917-1928
12 / 25
Fitch H. Medbury (re proposed sale of interest in ranch)
1924
12 / 26
A.J. Meloche (T.O. Ranch Company, Raton, N.M.)
1920-1921
12 / 27
S.R. Mercer (Missoula, Mont.)
1923-1924
12 / 28
Merchants National Bank (St. Paul, Minn.)
1909-1928
12 / 29
George Merrill (Thermopolis, Wyo.)
1924-1928
12 / 30
Metals Bank and Trust Company (Butte, Mont.)
1922-1928
12 / 31
Andrew J. Metler (Menno, S.D.)
1919-1925
12 / 32
Me (correspondents include L.E. Megee, Andrew Meikle, H.C. Meining Company, B.P. Melchert, Sam Melph, W.T. Merrill)
1909-1928
12 / 33
Midland Empire Fair; Midland Stock Show (Billings, Mont.)
1916-1928
12 / 34
Midland Linseed Products Company (Minneapolis, Minn.)
1917-1919
13 / 1
Miller (correspondents include Miller and Lux, Inc., A.W. Miller, Miller Brothers, Curtis J. Miller, D.S. Miller, Miller Development Company, Robert J. Miller)
1917-1928
13 / 2
Minneapolis Army and Navy Store
1922-1923
13 / 3
Minnesota Valley Canning Company
1924-1926
13 / 4
Missoula (correspondents include city and county offices, Missoula Chamber of Commerce, Missoula Mercantile Company, Missoula Trust and Savings Bank)
1915-1927
13 / 5
Mi (correspondents include Miami Conservancy District, Austin Middleton, Mid-States Oil Company, George R. Milburn, G.M. Miles, Millers Mutual Casualty Company, Charles A. Millie, C.J. Milligan Company, W.H. Miner, Minnesota Club, Frank D. Miracle, T.E. Mitchell and Son)
1909-1928
13 / 6
George P. and E.A. Moeller (Hettinger, N.D.)
1924
13 / 7
A. Moier and Son (Reichle, Mont.)
1919
13 / 8
Manley Moline (Circle, Mont.)
1924-1925
13 / 9
Monnett and Hamilton (Dayton, Wash.)
1921
13 / 10-11
Montana. Agricultural Experiment Station (includes C.N. Arnett, R.C. McChord, Clyde McKee, Louis Vinke, F.M. Harrington, H.W. Vaughan, Purcell Bill establishing Fort Keogh station)
1918-1928
13 / 12
Montana. Agricultural Extension Service
1923-1928
13 / 13
Montana. Board of Railroad Commissioners
1918-1924
13 / 14
Montana. Board of Stock Commissioners
1908-1910
13 / 15
Montana. Dept. of Agriculture, Labor and Industry (includes State Fair)
1921-1927
13 / 16
Montana. Dept. of Fish and Game; Fish and Game Commission
1917-1928
13 / 17
Montana. Dept. of State Lands and Farm Loans
1909-1928
13 / 18
Montana. Governor
1909-1927
13 / 19
Montana. Industrial Accident Board
1916-1918
13 / 20
Montana. Livestock Commission
1919-1928
13 / 21
Montana. Livestock Sanitary Board (W.J. Butler, State Veterinarian)
1917-1928
13 / 22
Montana. Secretary of State
1917-1928
13 / 23
Montana. Stallion Registration Board
1910-1922
13 / 24
Montana. State Fire Marshal
1919-1926
13 / 25
Montana. [miscellaneous state agencies]
1907-1928
13 / 26
Montana Club
1918-1928
13 / 27
Montana Deaconess Home
1915-1917
13 / 28
Montana Farmer
1916-1927
13 / 29
Montana Flour Mills Company
1921-1927
13 / 30
Montana Hereford Breeders Association (includes C.C. Davis, L. Chatterton)
1918-1925
13 / 31
Montana Life Insurance Company
1927-1928
13 / 32
Montana Livestock Finance Corporation (A.T. Hibbard)
1922-1926
13 / 33
Montana State Fair [private]
1909-1921
13 / 34
Montana Stock Growers Association
1917-1928
13 / 35
Montana Trust and Savings Bank (Helena, Mont.)
1915-1927
13 / 36
Montana Wool Growers Association
1921-1926
13 / 37
Montana (correspondents include Montana Automobile Association, Montana Commercial and Labor League, Montana Culvert and Flume Company, Montana Duroc-Jersey Breeders Association, Montana Joint Stock Land Bank, Montana Livestock Pavilion Company, Montana Mercantile Company, Montana Muskrat Breeders Inc., Montana Newspaper Association, Montana Purebred Sheep Association, Montana Ranches Company, Montana Raw Fur Company, Montana Southern Railway Company, Montana Sportsmen's Association, Montana Tax-Payers' Association, Montana Wool Cooperative Marketing Association)
1910-1928
13 / 38
C.F. Morris (Havre, Mont., re Brown's Coulee oil drilling)
1927
13 / 39
George H. Moses (U.S. Senator, New Hampshire)
1924-1925
14 / 1
Burton C. Mossman (Roswell, N.M.)
1926-1928
14 / 2
Matteson M. Mounts (Bismarck, N.D.)
1909-1928
14 / 3
Mousel Brothers (Cambridge, Nebr.)
1909-1922
14 / 4
Mo (correspondents include Moffett Studio, Ed Monahan, C.F. Monson, J.H. Montgomery, Montreal and Southern Counties Railway Company, Montross Metal Casket Company, E.L. Moorman, C.F. Morris, Morrison Brothers, W.J. Moss, R.S. Mossman, C.H. Moulton, Mount Royal Hotel Company)
1909-1928
14 / 5
George M. Mungas (Philipsburg, Mont.)
1922-1928
14 / 6
Mu-My (correspondents include C.S. Muffly, W.P. Murphy, Murphy Wholesale Grocery Company, Kenneth Myers)
1907-1924
14 / 7
T.Y. Nakagawa (Missoula, Mont.)
1923
14 / 8
National Bank of Montana (Helena, Mont.)
1909-1928
14 / 9
National Duroc-Jersey Record Association (J.R. Pfander)
1918-1924
14 / 10
National Irrigation Congress
1909
14 / 11
National Live Stock and Meat Board (includes report by R.C. Pollock)
1927-1928
14 / 12
National Marketing Committee
1915
14 / 13
National Wool Warehouse and Storage Company
1922-1923
14 / 14
National (correspondents include National Agricultural Society, National Association of Farm Equipment Manufacturers, National Economic League, National Farm News, National Institute of Progressive Farming, National Land Company, National Life Insurance Company, National Western Stock Show, National Wool Growers Association)
1915-1927
14 / 15
Louis Nelson (N.D. and Ont.)
1906
14 / 16
Thomas Newland (Helena, Mont.)
1915-1917
14 / 17
C.C. Newman (Dillon, Mont.)
1915-1926
14 / 18
Na-Ni (correspondents include Arthur C. Nash, Nay Brothers, Nebraska Governor, Nebraska Consolidated Mills Company, R. Neusch, Guy D. Nevills, New York Evening Post, Nichols and Shepard Company, Nixon Live Stock Commission Company)
1910-1928
14 / 19
Northern Pacific Railway Company (includes lawsuit, 1921; time of men fighting railroad caused fires, 1926)
1908-1928
14 / 20
Northern Pacific Railway Company. Land Dept. (includes leases, receipts, etc.)
1914-1928
14 / 21
Northwest Hereford Cattle Breeders Association (Reno Banks)
1920-1926
14 / 22
Northwest (correspondents include Northwest Livestock Association, Northwest Regional Advisory Board)
1915-1924
14 / 23
Northwestern (correspondents include Northwestern Distributing Company, Northwestern Electric Equipment Company, Northwestern Engineering Company, Northwestern Hereford Breeder, Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, Northwestern Society of New York, Northwestern Stockman and Farmer)
1909-1926
14 / 24
Nor-West Farmer
1917-1927
14 / 25
No-Ny (correspondents include Pat Normandin, Edwin L. Norris, Northern Grain and Warehouse Company, Northern Nevada Purebred Association, E.A. Noyes and Son, Nye and Jenks Grain Company)
1913-1928
15 / 1
John E. O'Connor (Portland, Ore.)
1916
15 / 2
P.A. O'Farrell (Montreal, Que.)
1909
15 / 3
J.C. Oliver and Sons (Herman Oliver, John Day, Ore.)
1921-1928
15 / 4
Charles E. Orchard (Denver, Colo.)
1925-1928
15 / 5
O (correspondents include W.L. Ober, C.N. O'Donel, J.C. O'Hara enclosing copy of his A Mining Romance, Oklahoma Live Stock News, Thomas O'Laughlin, Olds Motor Works, Henry Oliver, Omaha Chamber of Commerce, Axel Carlson Onrud, Ossining School, Handel E. Owen)
1907-1928
15 / 6
Pacific Northwest Farm Trio
1919-1926
15 / 7
John E. Painter (representative of several live stock associations)
1918-1924
15 / 8
Parchen Drug Company (Helena, Mont.)
1922-1925
15 / 9
Pa (correspondents include Pacific Bond and Mortgage Company, Pacific Coast Pipe Company, Pacific International Live Stock Exposition, M.S. Parker, Willis F. Parker, Thomas G. Paterson, H.F. Patterson, G.T. Paul, Peter Pauly, Oscar L. Payne)
1906-1928
15 / 10
Marguerite Peacock (Drummond, Mont.)
1926-1928
15 / 11
Peking University (China)
1924
15 / 12
Lewis Penwell Company (Helena, Mont.)
1917-1923
15 / 13
J.L. Perron (Montreal, Que.)
1918-1926
15 / 14
R.F. Pettigrew (Sioux Falls, S.D.)
1921-1925
15 / 15
Pe (correspondents include George D. Pease, Pelletier and Crowther, Pence Automobile Company, Frank Peterson, John Peterson, Andrew Petrie)
1909-1927
15 / 16
Phelps Ranch (Eugene and L.G. Phelps, Meeteetse, Wyo.)
1919-1928
15 / 17
Ph (correspondents include H.W. Phelps, Edwin A. Phillips, P.M. Phillips)
1910-1926
15 / 18
Pickering Farm (W.A. and W.R. Pickering, Belton, Mo.)
1918-1927
15 / 19
Harry W. Pickett (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
1906-1907
15 / 20
Pioneers of Eastern Montana
1912-1928
15 / 21
Pi-Pl (correspondents include A.W. Pieper, Charles H. Pierce, Piggly Wiggly Montana Company, H.H. Pigott, David Pimperton)
1909-1928
15 / 22
Political: re manganese tariff
1922
15 / 23
Political: re proposal to move Forest Service to Dept. of Interior
1921-1922
15 / 24
Charles Pollack (Craig, Mont.)
1919-1924
15 / 25
Norman S. Poole (Townsend, Mont.)
1912-1925
15 / 26
T.C. Power; T.C. Power Company; T.C. Power Motor Car Company
1906-1928
15 / 27
Po (correspondents include J.E. Poole, C.R. Pope Company, Porter-Davidson Company, Louville Porter, Portland Cattle Loan Company, Portland Union Stock Yards, Potrero Ranch, W.O. Pound and Sons, J.D. Powell, William Powers)
1906-1928
15 / 28
Charles Preece (Waterloo, Mont.)
1908-1910
15 / 29
The Producer
1919-1923
15 / 30
Pr-Py (correspondents include Pratt-Thompson Construction Company, Charles N. Pray, Robert A. Pringle, George Prior, W.O. Protsman, Pullman Company)
1909-1928
15 / 31
Quealy Land and Livestock Company (John Quealy, Hanna, Wyo.)
1926-1928
15 / 32
Quinn-Shepardson Company (Minneapolis, Minn.)
1917-1919
15 / 33
Q (correspondents include Quanah Cotton Oil Company, Thomas B. Quaw, Queen Incubator Company, Benjamin Quigley, Tom Quing, Nora Quinlan)
1914-1927
15 / 34
Jack T. Ramey (Fort Yates, N.D.)
1925-1928
15 / 35
Wellington Rankin (Helena, Mont.)
1928
15 / 36
Rea Brothers (Billings, Mont.)
1916-1926
15 / 37
Reinig Company (Helena, Mont.)
1922-1926
16 / 1
Ra-Re (correspondents include A.E. Ragan, A.A.D. Rahn, Realty Company, N.R. Reasoner, George Rebedeaux, Carl L. Reed, Harry C. Reed, W.C. Reed, K.M. Reeves, Regina Agricultural and Industrial Exhibition, J.H. Reniger, Fred Reppert)
1908-1917
16 / 2
Ringling (correspondents include Ringling and Work, R.T. Ringling Ranch, Ringling State Bank)
1922-1926
16 / 3
Dave Risk (Kansas City, Mo.)
1917-1922
16 / 4
Ri (correspondents include D.E. Richards, Howard F. Riddle, Ridgefield Sheep Feeding Yards)
1918-1928
16 / 5
Robinson Cartage and Storage Company (Orilia, Ont.)
1912-1923
16 / 6
Charles O. Robinson and Company, Livestock Commission
1922-1928
16 / 7
Rocky Mountain Club of New York
1907-1928
16 / 8
Nick Rorvig (Helena, Mont.)
1917-1928
16 / 9
Rosenbaum Brothers and Company
1915-1928
16 / 10
Ro (correspondents include George Robb, E.L. Robbins, O.P. Roberts, T.H. Robertson, Harry Robinson, Rock Island Stove Company, Rocky Mountain Fertilizer Company, Ralph Rodriguez, Joseph Roke, Leverett S. Ropes, Dan H. Ross)
1912-1928
16 / 11
Ru (correspondents include George C. Rudston, Charles Rule, Rural Spirit, William N. Russ, William G. Russell)
1910-1928
16 / 12
C.E. Ryan (Great Falls, Mont.)
1914-1918
16 / 13
Ryrie Brothers (Toronto, Ont.)
1911-1913
16 / 14
Ry (correspondents include Ethan B. Ryan, Mrs. J.J. Ryan, John D. Ryan, Lawrence B. Ryman)
1912-1928
16 / 15
P.D. Sanders (Tacoma, Wash.)
1922-1925
16 / 16
Sam E. Sanders (Desdemona, Tex.)
1924
16 / 17
Sa (correspondents include C.L. Sackett, St. Peter's Hospital, Salem Nursery Company, Salvation Army, Sands Brothers Dry Goods, Sanford-Evans Company, Max Sarter, Henry J. Sawtell, Sawyer Cattle Company)
1908-1928
16 / 18
George Schadmann (New York, N.Y.)
1921-1925
16 / 19
Gustav Schmidt (Killdeer, N.D.)
1920-1924
16 / 20
Fred Schmitz (Townsend, Mont.)
1920-1928
16 / 21
Schroeder Brothers Company (Helena, Mont.)
1910-1926
16 / 22
Adelaide Schulenburg (Chicago, Ill.)
1925-1926
16 / 23
C.H. Schultz (Bowbells, N.D.)
1927-1928
16 / 24
Charles L. Scofield (Biddle, Mont.)
1925-1926
16 / 25
C.B. Scott (Gardiner, Mont.)
1924-1928
16 / 26
J.E. Scott and Company (Hecla, S.D.)
1922
16 / 27
Sc (correspondents include Scarsdale Estates, Albert Schlechten, Max Schling, Henry B. Schock, Henry Schubert, A.E. Schwingel, C.E. Scott, Ted Scott)
1909-1928
16 / 28
L.E. Sedgwick (Christina, Mont.)
1918-1928
16 / 29
Ralph W. Selkirk (Heart-Bar-L Ranch, Fishtail, Mont.)
1923-1928
16 / 30
Se (correspondents include J.H. Searle, Ed Sendelbach, Harry Sexton)
1921-1928
16 / 31
J.A. Shade (Shadeland Herefords, Kingsley, Iowa)
1918-1927
16 / 32
A.W. Shaw Company (System on the Farm)
1917-1918
16 / 33
J.H. Shaw (Williston, N.D.)
1918, 1928
16 / 34
Sheffield Ranch (B.B. Sheffield, Frank Peterson, Calabar, Mont.)
1925-1928
16 / 35
Court Sheriff; Fred Sheriff (Helena and Canyon Ferry, Mont.)
1917-1919
16 / 36
J.H. Shober (Shober-Nolan Ranch, Toston, Mont.)
1922-1928
16 / 37
Sh (correspondents include D.M. Shannon, W.J. Sharp, J.C. Shaubut, B.B. Sheffield, Sam Shepard, W.S. Shore)
1907-1928
17 / 1
Claude H. Siems (Siems, Helmers and Schaffner, St. Paul, Minn.)
1922-1926
17 / 2
Silver Bow National Bank (Butte, Mont.)
1908-1922
17 / 3
John L. Slattery (endorsement for U.S. Attorney for Montana)
1925
17 / 4
C.C. Slaughter (Dallas, Tex.)
1927-1928
17 / 5
Si-Sl (correspondents include Harry Siegel, S. Silberman and Sons, J.O. Sinclair, George W. Slack)
1909-1928
17 / 6
Smith and Morton, Livestock Photographers
1925-1928
17 / 7
Charles W. Smith (includes Dept. of Public Health analysis of Cook Stock Farm milk and water)
1918
17 / 8
R. DeB. Smith (Helena, Mont.)
1911-1918
17 / 9
Smith (correspondents include Smith Brothers Commission Company, C.A. Smith, H.H. Smith, James S. Smith, M. Smith, Oscar Smith, T.E. Smith, Tom Smith)
1906-1928
17 / 10
Sn-So (correspondents include George M. Sneider, Snell and Arnott, T.A. Snidow, Sotham Brothers, Southland Cotton Oil Company)
1910-1927
17 / 11
Spokane Inter State Fair
1910-1918
17 / 12
Sp (correspondents include C.A. Spaulding, R.J. Spear, Sperry Realty and Investment Company, Spokane and Eastern Trust Company, Spreckles Sugar Company, Josephine Spriggs, J.L. Sprinkle)
1910-1928
17 / 13
Emil Starz, Pharmacist (includes report on Cook Stock Farm water)
1916-1923
17 / 14
State Nursery and Seed Company (Helena, Mont.)
1918-1928
17 / 15
F.B. Stearns Company (Cleveland, Ohio)
1920-1923
17 / 16
H.S. Stephenson (El Paso, Tex.)
1925-1928
17 / 17
Sam Stephenson (Great Falls, Mont.)
1917-1924
17 / 18
E.W. Stetson (Butte and Warm Springs, Mont.)
1907-1925
17 / 19
F.R. Stevens (New York, N.Y.)
1915-1918
17 / 20
I. Thayer Stevens (Harlowton, Mont.)
1927-1928
17 / 21
H.L. Stewart (New York, N.Y.)
1915-1918
17 / 22
P.S. Streit (Moore, Mont.)
1928
17 / 23
Allis Brown Stuart (Mrs. Granville Stuart)
1925
17 / 24
J.G. Stuart (Hill Cattle Corporation, Livingston, Mont.)
1922-1928
17 / 25
St (correspondents include Standard Garage, James T. Stanford, Herman Steen, William Stewart, Stockgrowers Inc., F. Thayer Stoddard, J.B. Stoker, Claude E. Storm, B.F. Stranahan, V.B. Strong, John Sturrock Plumbing and Heating Company)
1907-1928
17 / 26
Suffolk Storage Warehouse Company (re shipment of Mrs. Cook's goods)
1909
17 / 27
Su-Sw (correspondents include George Sucin re Rumanian sheepherders, D.E. Sullivan, Harry L. Summers, Sunburst Oil and Gas Company, Sunburst Refining Company, W.I. Sutcliff, Neil Sutherland, Stanley Swaim, A.D. Swan, Sweet Brothers, Charles R. Swift)
1907-1928
17 / 28
William S. Tash (DL Ranch, Bannack, Mont.)
1922-1928
17 / 29
Ta (correspondents include William Howard Taft, T.P. Talle, Tanawax Pheasantry, J. Taylor)
1911-1928
17 / 30
Terrell's Aquatic Farm (Clyde B. Terrell, plants for wildlife habitat)
1919-1927
17 / 31
Te (correspondents include C.D. and Julian Terrett, Teton County offices, Texas Hereford Association)
1908-1927
17 / 32
L.W. Thompson (Mondak, Mont.)
1925-1926
17 / 33
Notley Thompson (aide to Thomas A. Marlow)
1913-1918
17 / 34
Herman and Melvin Thor (Oramia, Minn.)
1922-1928
17 / 35
D. Thronson (Chicago and Marseilles, Ill.)
1910-1911
17 / 36
Th-Ti (correspondents include R.C. Thatcher, Henry Thiessen, I.W. Thomas, William Thomlinson, Lester H. Thompson, Thoroughbred Horse Association, Russell Thorp, I.H. Thurman, R.E. Thurston, G.D. Tilley naturalist)
1914-1928
18 / 1
Harriet W. Tooley (Harlowton, Mont.)
1922-1924
18 / 2
Cyrus A. Tow (Norway, Iowa)
1918-1928
18 / 3
To (correspondents include W.H. Tobey, Arthur Todhunter, Nathaniel Tonkin, William Tonn, John R. Toole, E.A. Tostevin)
1907-1928
18 / 4
A.O. Trumbull (Miles City, Mont.)
1923
18 / 5
Tr-Tw (correspondents include Tractor and Equipment Company, Benjamin Turner, J.E. Turner, T.J. Twedt, Twin City Land Company, Twin Falls North Side Land and Water Company)
1907-1928
18 / 6
United States. Bureau of Animal Industry (includes U.S. Sheep Experiment Stations in Miles City, Mont., and Dubois, Idaho)
1915-1928
18 / 7
United States. Forest Service, District 1; Wasatch National Forest
1919-1920
18 / 8
United States. Forest Service, Helena National Forest (correspondents include J.B. Seely, C.K. McHarg, Arthur H. Abbott)
1916-1927
18 / 9
United States. Forest Service, Jefferson National Forest (correspondents include Scott Leavitt, W.B. Willey)
1916-1924
18 / 10
United States. Office of Indian Affairs
1917-1921
18 / 11
United States. Indian Field Service (Colville Agency, Crow Agency, Fort Apache, Fort Belknap)
1917-1928
18 / 12
United States. Indian Field Service (Fort Berthoud, Fort Hall)
1922-1926
18 / 13
United States. Indian Field Service (Pine Ridge, Rocky Boy)
1923-1927
18 / 14
United States. Indian Field Service (Tongue River Agency)
1926-1928
18 / 15
United States. Internal Revenue Service
1924, 1927
18 / 16
United States. [miscellaneous agencies]
1915-1924
18 / 17
United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company
1915
18 / 18
United States Live Stock Sanitary Association
1922-1923
18 / 19
University of Idaho Experiment Station
1915-1919
18 / 20
University of Wyoming Agricultural College and Experiment Station
1916-1923
18 / 21
Paul E. Utz (White Sulphur Springs, Mont.)
1918-1919
18 / 22
U (correspondents include Union Bank and Trust Company, Union Stockyards Company of Ohaha, United Stockmen's Association for Federal Control of Public Grazing Lands, Utah State Fair Association)
1906-1928
18 / 23
Peter Van Hoven (St. Paul, Minn.)
1921
18 / 24
Ralph Van Vechten (Chicago, Ill., includes estate)
1923-1928
18 / 25
George C. Vogt (Sula, Mont.)
1925-1928
18 / 26
V (correspondents include Valier Farm Sales Company, H.P. Van Epps, George B. Vaughan, A. Vaux, S.H. Velie, B.F. Voodman, Joseph Vook)
1909-1913
18 / 27
Charles Wake (England)
1909-1913
18 / 28
Mrs. William Wallace (Wallace Ranch, Missoula, Mont.)
1925-1928
18 / 29
Wallace's Farmer (Henry C. Wallace, Des Moines, Iowa)
1920
18 / 30
James A. Walsh (Helena, Mont.)
1918-1921
18 / 31
Thomas J. Walsh (U.S. Senator)
1914-1927
18 / 32
Walters Brothers, Walters Company, C.N. Walters and Son (Buffalo, Wyo.)
1919-1928
18 / 33
Ernest L. Walton (Bainville, Mont.)
1927
18 / 34-35
Carlos Warfield (Toronto, Ont., also includes Marion Warfield; see also Hygeia Ice Company)
1912-1922, n.d.
18 / 36
M.R. Warnick (Middle West Farm, Leola, S.D.)
1922-1923
18 / 37-38
J.D. Watson (includes Knight-Watson Ranching Company, Lethbridge, Alta.)
1912-1928
19 / 1
Alex Watt (Kilherran, B.C.)
1925-1926
19 / 2
George Watterson (Bishop, Calif.)
1921-1922
19 / 3
Wa (correspondents include Alex Wagstaff, Waite Brothers and Company, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Walkers' Cash Liquor House, D.D. Walker, J.M. Walker, Herbert Wall, Edgar T. Wallace, John Walsh, Frank Ward, R.M. Washington, Washington State Fair, Waterloo Cement Machinery Company, E.C. Waters, James E. Watson, Luella E. Watson)
1907-1928
19 / 4
C.C. Webber (Minneapolis, Minn.)
1922-1927
19 / 5
John V. Weber (Clancy, Mont.)
1918-1924
19 / 6
F.A. Weinrich (Fort Union, Mont.)
1925-1928
19 / 7
Wentworth Realties Ltd. (John Findlay, Montreal, Que.; includes financial statement)
1924-1928
19 / 8
Western Empire Insurance Company (includes financial statements, etc.)
1909-1915
19 / 9
Western Engineering Company (includes legal documents)
1909-1911
19 / 10
Western Hereford Breeders Association (includes John Painter, T.F. DeWitt)
1915-1928
19 / 11
Western Seed Company (Denver, Colo.)
1920-1923
19 / 12
Western States Land and Development Company (Helena, Mont.)
1917
19 / 13
Western (correspondents include Western Auto and Supply Company, Western Breeders Journal, Western Contract Company, Western Royal Live Stock Association)
1912-1927
19 / 14
Weston Manufacturing and Supply Company (Denver, Colo.)
1918-1928
19 / 15
We (correspondents include Elbert D. Weed, John B. Emily Wellcome, G.W. Wermersen, West End Factory, A.O. Westberg, Martin Westland, R.G. Weston)
1906-1928
19 / 16
D.J. Whaley (Missoula, Mont.)
1908
19 / 17
J.C. Whaley (Montana Ditch Company, Townsend, Mont.)
1918
19 / 18
Burton K. Wheeler (United States Senator)
1924-1928
19 / 19
Charles W. Whitcomb (includes report on Ruby Gulch gold property, Little Rockies)
1910-1920
19 / 20
White Holland Turkeys
1927-1928
19 / 21
White (correspondents include B.F. White, White Bear Golf and Yacht Club, White Brothers, L.C. White, W. McC. White inclosing prospectus for Butte and Vipond Gold Mining and Milling Company)
1909-1928
19 / 22
Fred Whiteside (includes reports on Lodge Grass oil structure and on St. Andrews Bay Tract, Florida) [map in OVERSIZE FOLDER 1]
1928
19 / 23
Wh (correspondents include Fred J. Whitcroft, W.C. Whipps, M.C. Whitegaard)
1912-1928
19 / 24
W.F. Wilkins (Compania Ganadera de Atotonileo, Mexico)
1926-1928
19 / 25
A.R. Williams (Moorhead, Mont.)
1921-1928
19 / 26
George L. Williams (White Sulphur Springs, Mont.)
1916-1918
19 / 27
Williams (correspondents include A.G. Williams, C.H. Williams, W.H. Williams)
1916-1928
19 / 28
Williamson (correspondents include C.O. Williamson, Stewart Williamson)
1917-1922
19 / 29
Wilson (correspondents include F.D. Wilson, George A. Wilson, John R. Wilson, Lark Wilson)
1921-1926
19 / 30
Winnecook Ranch Company (Winnecook, Mont.)
1923-1928
19 / 31
Lawrence M. Winters (Saskatoon, Sask.)
1921
19 / 32
Hiram S. Winterton (Winterton Brothers, Charleston, Utah)
1918-1926
19 / 33
W.W. Withie (Buenes Aires, Argentina; Vancouver, B.C.)
1911-1912
19 / 34
Wi (correspondents include W.H. Wickens, R.A. Wigmore, Charles Wiley, Wilkie and Sellery Tailors, Wilkinson and Carroll Cotton Company, John Willis, J.M. Willis Cotton Products Company, E.A. Winstanley)
1907-1928
20 / 1
Wood Brothers Livestock Commission Merchants (Chicago, Ill.)
1908-1926
20 / 2
P.W. Woods (Helena, Mont.)
1918-1928
20 / 3
Wo (correspondents include Martin Woldson, Women's Directory of Montreal, Mark J. Woodhull, Wool Growers Marketing Company, Lester P. Work)
1914-1928
20 / 4
Wyoming State Fair
1915-1918
20 / 5
Wr-Wy (correspondents include Thomas F. Wren, Al Wright, Lewis T. Wright, Will Wright, Writers Press Association, G.C. Wunn, Wyatt Live Stock Company, D.J. Wylie)
1918-1924
20 / 6
Y (correspondents include Yamsay Land and Cattle Company, Dan Yancey, Dave Yandall, Yellowstone National Park, Yellowstone Packing Company, Yellowstone Registered Livestock Association, L.L. Young, Young Men's Christian Association [YMCA])
1907-1928
20 / 7
Zenoleum Products Company (Detroit, Mich.)
1926-1928
20 / 8
Z (correspondents include Ziemer's Poultry and Bee Farm, Henry Zimmer, Louis Zimmerman, Mose Zimmerman, George Zinec, unidentified)
1910-1925
20 / 9
Miscellaneous (re planned re-incorporation or sale of ranch, Hereford cattle sale)
1927-1928
Outgoing Correspondence
Box/Folder
20 / 10
Letterpress book: personal
1889-1891
20 / 11
Letterpress book: personal (re campaign for State Auditor)
1892
Miscellaneous Correspondence
Box/Folder
20 / 12
Letters of recommendation for A.B. Cook
1882-1885
20 / 13
Letters of endorsement for A.B. Cook as U.S. Surveyor General for Montana
1902
Court Papers
Box/Folder
20 / 14
Butte and Boston Consolidated Mining Company vs. Montana Ore Purchasing Company et al. (includes assignments of fines to A.B. Cook; S.B. 5647 "for the relief of Andrew B. Cook, assignee")
1908
20 / 15-16
A.B. Cook vs. John MacGinnis (includes brief of appellant; transcript on appeal)
1924
21 / 1
Amelia McStravick vs. A.B. Cook (undertaking)
1924
21 / 2
Mergenthaler Lynotype Company case (includes statement of case, mortgages, satisfactions of mortgages, etc.)
1917-1929
21 / 3
A.L. Smith, Trustee vs. A.B. Cook (foreclosure which resulted in sale of his cattle)
1928
21 / 4
Notebook re court cases
ca. 1895-1898
Financial Records
Box/Folder
21 / 5-13
Bills, invoices, etc. [sampled]
1893-1928
21 / 14
Bills for services: Gunn, Rasch and Hall, attorneys
1919-1928
21 / 15
Bills due
1921, 1923
21 / 16-21
Checkstubs, cancelled checks, bank statements, etc.
1886-1901
22 / 1-7
Checkstubs, cancelled checks, bank statements, etc.
1900-1928
23 / 1-5
Checkstubs, cancelled checks, bank statements, etc.
1911-1928
23 / 6
Financial statements
1909-1928
23 / 7
Fire insurance
1909, 1914
23 / 8
Inventory: Helena warehouse
1913, n.d.
23 / 9
Investments
1916
23 / 10
Life insurance
1889, 1914-1927
23 / 11
Liquor inventories
1918
23 / 12
Promissory notes
1890-1927
23 / 13
Receipts: Masonic and fraternal orders
1888-1920
23 / 14
Receipts: social clubs
1889-1926
23 / 15
Taxes: City of Helena
1890-1927
23 / 16
Taxes: Lewis and Clark County
1888-1928
23 / 17
Taxes: Park County (re property at Cooke City)
1890-1919
23 / 18
Taxes: certificates of redemption of property sold for taxes
1899, 1901 1927-1928
Legal Documents
Box/Folder
23 / 19
Affidavit as candidate for Republican National Committee
1924
23 / 20
Bill for appointment of a Deputy State Auditor (SB 21)
n.d.
23 / 21
Bills of sale
1918, 1928
23 / 22
Cooke City property
1886-1891, 1911
23 / 23
James Gorman Estate (Tacoma, Wash.)
1891-1893
23 / 24
Helena property: Brooke Addition [map in OVERSIZE FOLDER 1]
1890
23 / 25
Helena property: Northern Pacific #1 Addition
1887-1901
23 / 26
Helena property: Northern Pacific #2 Addition
1889-1902
23 / 27
Helena property: Thompson Placer Claim (West Lawrence Street)
1889-1895, 1918
23 / 28
Mining claims
1894-1897
23 / 29
Will
1916
Maps
Box/Folder
23 / 30
List of maps in oversize folders
Reports
Box/Folder
24 / 1
James S. Cunningham report on geology of P. Burns Coal Mines, Ltd. (Sheep Creek, Alta.)
1919
24 / 2
R.H. Ewart, "Geological report of Genou Fold of the Sweet Grass Arch"
1921
24 / 3
C.P. Hill, "Commercial report on the necessity of more smelters of silver, lead, zinc and antimony ores mined in Canada, as viewed from a Canadian standpoint"
1915
24 / 4
John F. Stevens, "Alaskan Railways: Contract vs. Direct Government Work"
1915
Subject Files
Box/Folder
24 / 5
Boat
1917
24 / 6
A.B. Cook home, Townsend (includes specifications for original house and for additions and alterations [blueprints in OVERSIZE FOLDER 2]
1915, 1919
24 / 7
Lake McDonald cottage
1926
24 / 8
Land (includes Indian Creek placers, Beartooth Ranch, etc.) [Maps in OVERSIZE FOLDER 3]
1915-1916
24 / 9
Mines: Beaver Creek Mining Company list of stock certificates
1917
24 / 10
Mines: Black Friday Mine (Radersburg, Mont.)
1910
24 / 11
Mines: British Columbia
ca. 1911
24 / 12
Mines: Cataract Placer Claim (Jefferson County, Mont.: report by E. Gybons Spilsbury)
1887
24 / 13
Mines: Clark Fork River [map in OVERSIZE FOLDER 3]
1923
24 / 14
Mines: Colin Campbell Lode (Lake and Park counties, Colo.)
ca. 1901
24 / 15
Mines: Columbian group of quartz mines (York, Mont., includes Golden Messenger and Dandy)
ca. 1900
24 / 16
Mines: Federal Zinc and Lead Company (Gaspe County., Que., includes report by Walter Harvey Weed)
1918-1926
24 / 17
Mines: Gravelly Range placers (Madison County, Mont., includes report by F.B. Turner on Rubylyn and Sapphire claims)
1899, n.d.
24 / 18
Mines: Hudson Bay mining claims (Salma, B.C., includes report by R.K. Neill)
n.d.
24 / 19
Mines: Josephine Mine (Rimini, Mont., includes report by P. Knabe)
1892
24 / 20
Mines: Keystone and King Mining and Milling Company (Spring Gulch Mining District, Missoula County, Mont., includes report by J.W. Hamilton)
n.d.
24 / 21
Mines: T.H. McFadden claims (Thompson Mining District, Mont.)
1885-1889
24 / 22
Mines: Montana-Idaho Mines Corporation
1927
24 / 23
Mines: Montana, Pony and Pay Rock claims (near Libby, Mont.) [map in OVERSIZE FOLDER 3]
n.d.
24 / 24
Mines: Neihart area
1922-1923
24 / 25
Mines: New Jersey Blue Mine (Butte, Mont., includes report by Michael Cooney) [Map in OVERSIZE FOLDER 3]
1890
24 / 26
Mines: Prize Mine (Granite Butte, Powell County, Mont., includes report and map by J. McConnell)
1894
24 / 27
Mines: Red Mountain Consolidated Mining Company (Rimini, Mont.) [Map in OVERSIZE FOLDER 3]
1926
24 / 28
Mines: Ruby Gulch Mining Company (Phillips County, Mont., includes reports by Melvin S. Patterson, Marcus L. Hurley, William R. Price)
1927
24 / 29
Mines: Union Mining Company (Unionville, Mont., stockholder list) [Map in OVERSIZE FOLDER 3]
1901
24 / 30
Mines: miscellaneous (includes Mineral County mines, Davis Placer report, Butte West Side Mines Company prospectus, Hazel Mining Company prospectus, Ohio and Climax production, notes) [Map in OVERSIZE FOLDER 3]
1897-1924
24 / 31
Mining letters
1925-1928
24 / 32
New Day Oil Company drilling
1927
24 / 33
United Copper Aetna deal
1909-1911
24 / 34
Western Gas Construction Company (includes Loomis Gas and Electric Company brochures)
1889
24 / 35
Wyoming, Salt Lake and California Railway
1889-1890
Miscellany
Box/Folder
25 / 1
American Kennel Club (AKC) registration form, including list of dog breeds
n.d.
25 / 2
Art (pencil sketch, probably of Mary and Jesus, by unknown artist)
n.d.
25 / 3
Boone and Crockett Club membership list [A-H only]
1892-1926
25 / 4
Broadwater County annual financial statements
1919-1920
25 / 5
Broadwater County precinct list
1920
25 / 6
Cartoon re A.B. Cook "What Big Business Tried to Do"
n.d.
25 / 7
P.J. Coleman address to Farmers Elevator Association
1926
25 / 8
Helena Builders and Manufacturers Exchange constitution and bylaws
1891
25 / 9
Letterheads
n.d.
25 / 10
List of lands under Billings Ditch
n.d.
25 / 11
Memorandum books
n.d.
25 / 12
Montana Club annual report and membership list [incomplete set]
1894-1922
25 / 13
National Arbitration and Peace Congress dinner program
1907
25 / 14
Pioneers of Eastern Montana constitution and bylaws
1903
25 / 15
"Report of the Anti-Saloon League of Montana"
1924
25 / 16
Sawyer Stores, Inc. prospectus
1926
25 / 17
Taxpayers organization brochures and flyers
1921, n.d.
25 / 18
Wedding congratulations
1908
25 / 19
Willow Creek Oils, Ltd. prospectus
1914
25 / 20
Miscellaneous (includes Cook Coal Company stock certificate, Montana Drug Company balance sheet, Montana Mining Company equipment for sale, address by Cornelius F. Kelley before Montana Bankers Association, Collins Land Company brochure, poems, etc.)
1897-1927

A.B. Cook Estate Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
General Correspondence
Box/Folder
25 / 21
A-M (correspondents include American Hereford Cattle Breeders Association, C. Dunkel, Walter J. Hill, Illinois Steel Bridge Company, The Jockey Club, James H. Johnston, Arthur T. McIntosh and Company, McIntyre Ranching Company, Hazel Alsterberg Mitchell, Montana Life Insurance Company, Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company)
1928-1930
25 / 22
R-W (correspondents include John Reagor, Seattle National Bank, State Bank of Chicago, J.D. Watson, T.B. Weir)
1928-1930
Court Papers
Box/Folder
25 / 23
Notice of probate; creditor's claim; petition for sale of personal property
1928, 1930
Financial Records
Box/Folder
25 / 24
Checkstubs
1931-1932

A.B. Cook Stock Farms Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Court Papers
Box/Folder
26 / 1
A.B. Cook testimony in John Doughty case (re theft of Cotswold sheep)
ca. 1921
26 / 2
Meagher County water rights case (lists Confederate Creek water rights)
1890
Employment Records
Box/Folder
26 / 3
Employment agency referrals: Coe's Employment Agency (Helena, Mont.)
1918-1920
26 / 4
Employment agency referrals: Kain's Employment Agency (Helena, Mont.)
1921-1924
26 / 5
Employment agency referrals: Randall's Employment Agency (Billings, Mont.)
1923-1928
26 / 6
Employment agency referrals: Montana Employment Agency; Montana Labor Office (Charlie Rustad, Great Falls, Mont.)
1922-1923
26 / 7
Employment agency referrals: Tonn's Employment Agency (Helena, Mont.)
1925-1927
26 / 8
Employment agency referrals (miscellaneous)
1918-1928
26 / 9-11
Employment applications (includes some biographical material)
1926-1928
26 / 12
Monthly labor reports (gives labor cost of each operation)
1915-1916
26 / 13-18
Payrolls/time sheets/time books (includes Bedford, Dunleavy, Rorvig and Sheep ranches)
1915-1922
27 / 1-3
Payrolls/time sheets/time books (includes Bedford, Dunleavy, Rorvig and Sheep ranches)
1923-1954
27 / 4-5
Payrolls/time sheets/time books: carpenters includes A.B. Cook house, Bedford, Dunleavy, Rorvig and Sheep ranches)
1917-1921
27 / 6
Payroll: ditch work
1920-1921
Financial Records
Box/Folder
27 / 7-8
Accounts
1927-1928
28 / 1
Bank statements
1922-1928
28 / 2-3
Bills, invoices, etc.
1925-1930
Volume
Vol. 1
Cash book and voucher register
1920
Box/Folder
28 / 4-7
Checkstubs
1927-1933
28 / 8-9
Commissary account books
1917, 1924-1928
28 / 10
Grocery lists
1923, n.d.
28 / 11
C.D. Hall account
1928
28 / 12
Hay scale receipts
1915-1928
28 / 13
Axel Holmstrom accounts
1924-1925
28 / 14
Hotel accounts
1926-1928
29 / 1-12
Inventories (include Dunleavy, Bedford, Rorvig, Luppold, and Sheep ranches)
1913-1933
29 / 13
Monthly financial statements
1914-1915
29 / 14
Promissory notes
1919, 1925
29 / 15-18
Requisitions
1920-1924
30 / 1
Show cattle expenses and winnings
1919-1921, n.d.
30 / 2
Taxes: Broadwater County
1914-1928
30 / 3
Taxes: Meagher County
1918-1928
30 / 4
Taxes on shipped cattle
1918-1925
30 / 5
Trial balance sheet
May 1919
30 / 6
Wool warehouse receipts
1916
Legal Documents
Box/Folder
30 / 7
Abstract of title and deeds: Bedford Townsite
1882-1919
30 / 8
Canadian customs forms for exhibit cattle
1919
30 / 9
Chattel mortgages on cattle (includes correspondence, lists, etc.)
1923-1928
30 / 10
Dunleavy Ranch
1912
30 / 11
Axel Holmstrom
1918
30 / 12
Livestock contracts with railroads
1915-1928
30 / 13
Mortgages
1925-1928
30 / 14
Northern Pacific Railway Land Dept.
1916-1928
30 / 15
Jay Rathbun
1912-1923
30 / 16
Nick Rorvig
1916
30 / 17
Sheriff's sales
1923, 1926, 1928
30 / 18
Springville Townsite
1894-1912
30 / 19
State lands
1919, 1928
30 / 20
White Sulphur Springs property
1926-1927
30 / 21
Miscellaneous
1917-1928
Maps
Box/Folder
30 / 22
Maps of ranch property [includes OVERSIZE FOLDER 4]
Organization
Box/Folder
30 / 23
Articles of incorporation, bylaws, minutes electing officers
1919
Printed Material
Box/Folder
30 / 24
A.B. Cook's Herefords: a select sale offering of fifty-two head (sale catalog)
1920
Production Records
Box/Folder
Cardbx / 1
American Hereford Cattle Breeders Association: certificates of entry [chronologically arranged]
1901-1933
31 / 1-3
American Hereford Cattle Breeders Association: registration stub books
1911-1922
32 / 1-4
American Hereford Cattle Breeders Association: registration stub books
1924-1930
32 / 5-7
American Hereford Cattle Breeders Association: transfer stub books (sales of cattle)
1909-1923
33 / 1-2
American Hereford Cattle Breeders Association: transfer stub books (sales of cattle)
1923-1928
33 / 3
American Rambouillet Sheep Breeders Association: registrations
1922
33 / 4-7
Breeding and birth records: Hereford cattle
1918-1921
34 / 1-3
Breeding and birth records: Hereford cattle
1922-1926
34 / 4-6
Breeding registers: Hereford cattle
1914-1924
34 / 7
Breeding registers: Holstein dairy cattle
1912-1926
34 / 8-12
Calves dropped
1908-1925, 1928
35 / 1-2
Calves dropped: White Sulphur Springs
1918-1923
35 / 3
Canadian Hereford Breeders Association: pedigree registrations
1918-1919
35 / 4-11
Cattle lists
1910-1928
35 / 12
Holstein-Friesian Association registrations [additional Holstein records in CardBx 1]
1928-1929
35 / 13
Horse pedigrees and lists [additional Belgian Horse records in Cardbx 1; pedigree of Rogon in OVERSIZE FOLDER 5]
1910-1917
35 / 14
Lamb sales
1919
35 / 15
National Duroc-Jersey Record Association registrations (pigs)
1924, 1926
Cardbx / 1-2
Pedigree cards: Hereford cattle [unsorted]
36 / 1
Pedigree cards: Hereford cattle, A-W
1902-1913
36 / 2-5
Pedigree books and sheets: Hereford cattle [various arrangements]
1904-1923
36 / 6
Sheep at shearing
1917-1923
Subject Files
Box/Folder
36 / 7
Accredited herd papers (re tuberculosis-free certification)
1927-1928
36 / 8-9
Advertising
1921-1928
36 / 10
Belgian horses (includes Major d'Appel)
1925-1928
36 / 11
Brands
1912-1927
36 / 12
Cattle dealers and breeders
1913-1921
37 / 1
Cesspool design
1925
37 / 2
Chickens (also includes turkeys and geese)
1918-1922
37 / 3
Combine sale
1927
37 / 4
Dogs
1915-1927
37 / 5-15
Fairs, expositions, and sales (re Cook's entry of Hereford show herd at United States and Canada fairs, includes lists, prizes, expenses) [certificates and posters in OVERSIZE FOLDER 5]
1916-1926
38 / 1-4
Fairs, expositions, and sales (continued)
1927-1928
38 / 5
Feeding experiments
1925
38 / 6
Fencing
1917-1926
38 / 7
Fire insurance [map of layout of buildings at ranch in OVERSIZE FOLDER 5]
1917, 1927
38 / 8
Fish and game (re stocking of trout in Sheep Creek, migratory bird refuges, etc.)
1924
38 / 9
Grinders (re grain and feed grinders)
1927-1928
38 / 10
Havey Brothers ranch
1922
38 / 11
Hay and straw
1921-1922
38 / 12
Holstein dairy cattle
1916, 1924
38 / 13
Horse hitch systems
n.d.
OVFD / 5
Irrigation: map of proposed irrigation canal by John H. Farmer
n.d.
38 / 14
Irrigation: Charles W. Helmick plans for diversion of Missouri River near Dunleavy ranch [maps in OVERSIZE FOLDER 5]
1920-1925
38 / 15
Irrigation: Don Mumbrue re Bedford Ditch
1921
38 / 16
Irrigation: Louis K. Pool re Lower Reed Ditch
1919
38 / 17
Keyes, VanVechten and Kennedy leases (includes correspondence, application, tax assessment)
1925-1927
38 / 18
Latin America (includes letters from cattlemen in Latin America)
1920-1921
38 / 19
Livestock Sanitary Board inspections
1920, 1926
38 / 20
Livestock Loan Company (proposed)
1925
38 / 21
Loan application to Montana Joint Stock Land Bank of Helena on Sheep Creek Ranch (includes correspondence, inventory, etc.)
1922
38 / 22
Loan companies (includes John Clay and Company, Montana Livestock Finance Company, Tri-City Land Company; see also correspondence file for each company)
1921-1927
38 / 23
Luppold Ranch lease from Emelia McStravick (includes correspondence, lease papers, etc.)
1922, 1926
38 / 24
Frank Miracle land
1920, 1926
38 / 25
Montana Potato Improvement Association (includes report of 4th annual meeting)
1927
39 / 1
Montana State Poultry Association, ROM Turkey Breeders Division
1929
39 / 2
Morgan's mining equipment
1928?
39 / 3
National Forest grazing leases [map in OVERSIZE FOLDER 5]
1918-1924
39 / 4
New Zealand and Australian Land Company
1918-1920
39 / 5
Newlan Creek Ranch (Harry H. Keyes)
1923-1928
39 / 6
Pictures (re orders for prints, photographs, frames)
1916-1918
39 / 7
Plans and drawings for buildings and equipment [see also map in OVERSIZE FOLDER 5]
1917-1926
39 / 8
Railroad rates
1922-1926
39 / 9
Ranch lands (includes some ranches offered for sale) [map in OVERSIZE FOLDER 5]
1917-1926
39 / 10
Roses
1919-1920
39 / 11
Seeding
1926
39 / 12
Sheep
1926-1927
39 / 13
Sheep Creek Ranch (bought from Thomas A. Marlow)
1916-1923
39 / 14
Show herd (re expenses, prizes, pedigrees at fairs; see also "Fairs, expositions and sales")
1926-1927
39 / 15
Silos (re building of brick silos on ranch)
1918-1920
39 / 16
Sioux City sale of A.B. Cook Herefords
1920
39 / 17
State leases
1926-1928
39 / 18
Twin Cities Land Company (re Ballard and Company mortgage)
1923-1926
39 / 19
Veterinary medical remedies, etc.
1922-1927
39 / 20
Water rights on Confederate Creek
1890-1928
Miscellany
Box/Folder
39 / 21
American Hereford Cattle Breeders Association financial report
1917
39 / 22
American National Live Stock Association programs, reports, ICC docket
1914-1917
39 / 23
Automobile titles and registration
1926-1928
39 / 24
Cattle breeders lists
1923, n.d.
39 / 25
Fair brochures
1922-1923
39 / 26
Graham Scientific Breeding School brochures
n.d.
39 / 27
Hereford cattle record keeping methods
1920
40 / 1-2
Indexes (unidentified)
n.d.
40 / 3
Lists of land holdings
1924, n.d.
40 / 4
Petition for federal aid highway over Duck Creek Pass
1927
40 / 5
T.C. Power Company price lists
1921-1927
40 / 6
Soil analyses
1920
40 / 7
Miscellaneous (includes brochures, advertisements, catalogs, etc.)
1921-1928
Clippings
Box/Folder
40 / 8
A.B. Cook, his show herd, and dispersal sale
1921-1928
40 / 9
Resorts and dude ranches
1925
40 / 10
Weeds, soils, livestock, etc.
1921-1928

Flying U Ranch (Bynum, Mont.) Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
General Correspondence
Box/Folder
40 / 11
B-C (correspondents include A.W. Beach; George A. Chichester; Clay, Robinson and Company; Frank Conley; Conrad Banking Company; Conrad-Stanford Company; Creeklyn Stock Farm; Thomas A. Cummings)
1908-1910
40 / 12
J.L. DeHart
1907-1910
40 / 13
G-M (correspondents include Great Falls Meat Company, Hirshberg Mercantile Company, Montana State Land Dept.)
1908-1910
40 / 14
Rosenbaum Brothers and Company
1908-1910
40 / 15
George Sim
1909-1911
40 / 16
Axel Swanson
1908-1911
40 / 17
Truman's Pioneer Stud Farm
1907-1910
40 / 18
Carlos Warfield
1906-1910
Employment Records
Box/Folder
40 / 19
Employee accounts
1908-1909
Financial Records
Box/Folder
40 / 20
Bills, receipts, etc.
1908-1912
40 / 21
Cattle purchases
1908
40 / 22
Cattle sales
1908-1910
40 / 23
Check register
1908-1909
40 / 24
Horse transfers
1906-1907
40 / 25
Inventories
n.d.
40 / 26
Taxes: Teton County
1908-1917
Legal Documents
Box/Folder
40 / 27
Abstract of title, homestead certificate, deeds, bills of sale, lease
1892-1912

Stiles Cattle Company (Standing Rock Reservation, S.d.) Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Interoffice Correspondence
Box/Folder
41 / 1-4
Miscellaneous (correspondents include J.A. Stiles, L. Earl, J.W. Schock, Jack Ramey; includes report of Perry P. Kline)
1917-1928
41 / 5-6
Telegrams
1917-1926
General Correspondence
Box/Folder
41 / 7
A. McG. Beede
1924-1926
41 / 8
John Clay and Company
1925
41 / 9
H.C. Smith
1925
41 / 10
Ed Straub (Standing Rock Reservation, S.D.)
1918
41 / 11
U.S. Indian Service: Standing Rock Indian School (E.D. Mossman)
1923-1925
41 / 12
A-W (correspondents include Capital Live Stock Loan Company, Chappel Brothers, Joseph A. Hanlon, Live Stock National Bank, O'Neil Brothers, Bud O'Neil, Oscar L. Payne, Sioux County, Western South Dakota Stock Growers Association)
1922-1928
Financial Records
Box/Folder
41 / 13
Delinquent taxes
1925
41 / 14
Financial statements
1918-1926
41 / 15
Property sold at auction
1924
41 / 16
Schedule of damages assessed for trespass on Indian lands
1923, 1925
41 / 17
Miscellaneous (includes cancelled checks, bills, memo books, taxes)
1923-1925
Maps
Box/Folder
OvFd / 6
Maps of Stiles Cattle Company and Standing Rock Indian Reservation, including property ownership on reservation
1909. 1911, n.d.
Production Records
Box/Folder
41 / 18-19
Cattle lists, tatoo numbers. etc.
n.d.
41 / 20
Cattle registrations and transfers (mostly to A.B. Cook)
1918-1923
Miscellany
Box/Folder
41 / 21
Lists of lands leased on Standing Rock Reservation (gives names of Indian land owners)
1922-1924
41 / 22
Lists of lands purchased on Standing Rock Reservation (gives names of sellers)
1920

A.b. Cook (Bynum Reservoir Contract) Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
General Correspondence
Box/Folder
42 / 1
Re court case (correspondents include S.J. Mayo, U.S. General Land Office, John G. Brown, John W. Alvord, Jeremiah Collins, Milton S. Gunn, Albert J. Galen)
1912-1915
Court Papers
Box/Folder
42 / 2-3
A.K. Prescott et al. vs. Teton Cooperative Reservoir Company and A.B. Cook
1912-1914
Employment Records
Volume
Vol. 2
Payroll and timebook
1908-1909
Financial Records
Box/Folder
42 / 4
Account with A.B. Cook and Company re Belt work
1909-1912
42 / 5
Bills, receipts, orders, etc.: A-B
1909
42 / 6
Bills, receipts, orders, etc.: J.I. Case Threshing Machine Company
1909
42 / 7
Bills, receipts, orders, etc.: Conrad Mercantile Company
1909
42 / 8
Bills, receipts, orders, etc.: Cook, Deeks, Hinds and Company
1909
42 / 9-10
Bills, receipts, orders, etc.: C-G
1909
42 / 11
Bills, receipts, orders, etc.: Hirshberg Mercantile Company
1909
42 / 12
Bills, receipts, orders, etc.: H-L
1909
42 / 13
Bills, receipts, orders, etc.: Murphy-Maclay Hardware Company
1909
42 / 14
Bills, receipts, orders, etc.: M-R
1909
42 / 15
Bills, receipts, orders, etc.: Western Wheeled Scraper Company
1909
42 / 16
Bills, receipts, orders, etc.: Winston, Harper, Fisher Company, wholesale groceries
1909
42 / 17
Inventory
1909
42 / 18
Ledger
1908
42 / 19
Trial balances
1908-1909
Legal Documents
Box/Folder
42 / 20
Agreements with Cal Binford and B.P. Derkson to supply oats
1909

Banner Mining Company Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Financial Records
Box/Folder
42 / 21
Taxes: Lewis and Clark County
1899-1921
Legal Documents
Box/Folder
42 / 22
Sale of Banner claim to Cook by G.F. Woodruff and Annie Hollen
1894
Organization
Box/Folder
42 / 23
Stock certificate
1895

Buckeye Mining And Milling Company Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
General Correspondence
Box/Folder
42 / 24
Miscellaneous (correspondents include O.B. Hanley, T.H. Burke, A.J. Steele)
1890-1891
Assay Reports
Box/Folder
42 / 25
Assay certificates
1890-1891
Employment Records
Box/Folder
42 / 26
Payroll / timebook
1891
Financial Records
Box/Folder
42 / 27
Checkstubs
1892
42 / 28
Miscellaneous (includes statement of ore sales, trial balances, loan payments, bill, inventory of tools)
1890-1894, n.d.
Legal Documents
Box/Folder
42 / 29
Notice of location and declaratory statement for Ohio mill site
1890
Organization
Box/Folder
42 / 30
Stock certificates
1890-1895
Reports
Box/Folder
42 / 31
Report on Ohio Climax and Paymaster mines
1889

Cook And Woldson, Railroad Contractors Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
General Correspondence
Box/Folder
43 / 1
Miscellaneous (correspondents include Richard A. Harlow, Montana Railroad Company, Smith Brothers Sheep Company)
1895, 1900
Employments Records
Box/Folder
43 / 2-3
Payroll checkstubs, timebooks, etc.
1893, 1895
Financial Records
Box/Folder
43 / 4
Bank statements
1897-1901
43 / 5-7
Bills, invoices, receipts, etc.: Whitehall spur to Parrot smelter
1895-1896
43 / 8-12
Cancelled checks and checkstubs
1895-1900
44 / 1
Cancelled checks and checkstubs
1900-1901
44 / 2
Daybook
1898-1899
44 / 3
Hauling Cumberland ore
1896-1897
44 / 4
Journal: Gaylord and Ruby Valley Railway; Gallatin Railroad; tie hauling
1897-1899
Volume
Vol. 3-4
Journals: Montana Railroad force account
1899-1900
Box/Folder
44 / 5
Journal: Montana Railroad force account and cash book
1900
44 / 6
Journal: Montana Railroad grading account; Dorsey subcontract; Martinsdale to Marino extension
1899-1900
44 / 7
Journal: Whitehall spur to Parrot Smelter
1895-1896
44 / 8
Ledger
1897-1899
45 / 1-3
Ledgers
1898-1899
45 / 4-5
Montana Railroad accounts
1896-1900
45 / 6
Montana Railroad force of work report
1899
45 / 7
Taxes: Lewis and Clark County
1900
Legal Documents
Box/Folder
45 / 8
Contracts (includes Northern Pacific Railway Company for spur line from Whitehall to Parrot smelter; Butte, Anaconda and Pacific Railway Company; Richard A. Harlow for line to Castle Mining District; Gaylord and Ruby Valley Railway Company; Dorsey Company for subcontract laying track from Summit Station to Martinsdale for Montana Railroad Company)
1895-1899
Miscellany
Box/Folder
45 / 9
Advertisement for bids for work in Yellowstone National Park
1902
45 / 10
Railroad construction specifications and cost estimates
1888-1913, n.d.

Cook Construction Company Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
General Correspondence
Box/Folder
46 / 1
A-B (correspondents include A.R. Armstrong, Bank of Toronto, Burlington Steel Company)
1913-1918
46 / 2
Canadian Government Railways, Halifax Ocean Terminals
1919
46 / 3
Canadian Pacific Railway Company
1905-1925
46 / 4
A.H. Cederberg
1917
46 / 5-8
Cook Construction Company, St. Paul, Minn. (correspondents include J.F. Higgins, Alexander McKenzie, H.B. Shoop)
1912-1921
46 / 9-12
Cook Construction Company, Ltd., Montreal, Que. (correspondents include F.J. Herlihy, F.I. Ker, Harry F. McLean, Alexander McKenzie)
1912-1922, 1928
46 / 13
Cook Construction Company, Ltd. and Wheaton Brothers, Halifax, N.S. (correspondents include Harry F. McLean, J.P. Bains)
1916-1918
46 / 14-15
Cook Construction Company (telegrams, all three locations)
1912-1922
46 / 16
C (correspondents include Canada Cement Company Ltd., Canadian Northern Railway, Canadian Vickers Ltd., Canadian government agencies, J.D. Cumming)
1914-1920
47 / 1
Dominion Construction Company
1918
47 / 2
D-H (correspondents include Maurice E. Davis; Paul Faber; George P. Flannery; C.B. Foster; Gaffy, Stephens and McNamee; Halifax Board of Trade; Henry Holgate; Hoosier Rolling Mill Company)
1915-1923
47 / 3
MacDonell and Boland (correspondents include A.G. MacDonell, W.J. Boland)
1910-1915
47 / 4
M-N (correspondents include Boyd Magee, Miami Conservancy District, Wallace Nesbitt)
1917-1921
47 / 5
W.H. Rosecrans Engineering Company
1912-1914
47 / 6
S (correspondents include L.I. Stephens, A.M. Stewart)
1917-1920
47 / 7
Carlos Warfield
1914
Court Papers
Box/Folder
47 / 8
Thomas Burke vs. Cook and Hinds Railroad Contractors
1906-1907
47 / 9
In the matter of a seizure by the Commissioner of Customs of plant and machinery, property of Cook Construction Company, Ltd.
1914
Financial Records
Volume
Vol. 5
Cash book / voucher register
1913-1916
Box/Folder
47 / 10
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway distribution of yardage and progress estimates
1914
47 / 11
Estimate of profits on construction of Montreal, Joliette, and Transcontinental Junction Railway
ca. 1914
47 / 12
Inventories
1913, 1915
47 / 13
Statements of accounts
1913-1921
47 / 14
Trial balances
1915, 1920-1921
47 / 15
Miscellaneous (includes bills, vouchers, etc.)
1914-1919
Legal Documents
Box/Folder
47 / 16
Agreement with Wheaton Brothers re Halifax Ocean Terminals Railway
1916
Organization
Box/Folder
47 / 17
Articles of incorporation, minutes of one meeting, dissolution
1912-1921
Subject Files
Box/Folder
47 / 18
Azilda-Cartier and Levak contracts (Sudbury, Ont.; includes correspondence, financial records)
1913-1915
47 / 19
Bulwer Junction (Minn.) property (includes correspondence, maps in OVERSIZE FOLDER 7]
1912, 1924
47 / 20
John C. Cox equipment
1920-1923
47 / 21
Intercolonial Railway contract (Halifax, N.S.; includes correspondence, financial records)
1913-1915
47 / 22
Joliette and Lake Manuan Colonization Railway Company contract (includes correspondence, financial records)
1916
47 / 23-28
Montreal aquaduct contract (includes correspondence, court case, financial records, progress reports, and specifications)
1913-1919
48 / 1-4
Montreal power development (includes correspondence, financial records, legal documents, reports, clippings)
1911-1922
Miscellany
Box/Folder
48 / 5
Blueprints: Bucyrus Company steamshovel
n.d.
48 / 6
Steel reinforcement bars for retaining walls
1916
48 / 7
Tuberculin tests on cows owned by company
1918
48 / 8
Miscellaneous (includes notes, sand sample tests, application for industrial or commercial track)
1911-1913, n.d.

Cook Tunnel Company / New Gould Mining Company Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
General Correspondence
Box/Folder
48 / 9
Owen Byrnes (also includes prospectus for Landers Valley Ranch)
1921-1928
48 / 10
J.N. Camden
1922-1926
48 / 11
John P. Cowing
1922-1925
48 / 12
R.J. Kinzer
1922-1924
48 / 13
Edwin Lausier
1922-1928
48 / 14
National Bank of Montana
1922-1924
48 / 15
R.L. Northcutt (re organization of venture)
1922
48 / 16
Claude Siems
1922-1927
48 / 17
C-W (correspondents include C.A. Crawford, Crystal Copper Company, Robert H. Hazlett, Ingersoll-Rand Company, Peter McVeigh, J.D. Watson)
1922-1924, n.d.
Assay Reports
Box/Folder
48 / 18
Certificates of assay
1922-1928
Financial Records
Box/Folder
48 / 19
Distribution of accounts
1922-1924, 1928
Organization
Box/Folder
48 / 20
Articles of incorporation, minutes of one meeting (New Gould Mining Company), stockholder list
1925, 1928
Clippings
Box/Folder
48 / 21
"Jay Gould Tunnel will be 4,500 feet in length"
1922

Gloria Mining Company Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
General Correspondence
Box/Folder
49 / 1-3
E.J.W. Donahue
1917-1924
49 / 4
Telegrams
1917-1924
Assay Reports
Box/Folder
49 / 5
Analyses of iron and manganese ores
1917-1919, n.d.
Financial Records
Box/Folder
49 / 6
Check register
1916-1918
49 / 7
Daily labor and operating reports
1918
49 / 8
Expenses
1917-1918
49 / 9
Journal
1916-1918
49 / 10
Ledger
1916-1918
49 / 11
Miscellaneous (includes equipment lists, schedule of manganese ore prices, trial balance)
1916-1923
Legal Documents
Box/Folder
49 / 12
Ore contracts
1916-1925
Maps
Box/Folder
49 / 13
Maps of Gloria mine property [oversize maps in OVERSIZE FOLDER 7]
n.d.
Organization
Box/Folder
49 / 14
Articles of incorporation; resolution
1918
Reports
Box/Folder
49 / 15
Reports on property by Ernest LeDuc, Franklin Merritt, Walter Harvey Weed
1911, 1915
49 / 16
"Report on a magnetic survey...Crow Wing County, Minnesota"; "Annual report of Inspector of Mines for Crow Wing County, Minnesota"
1917-1918

Lexington Mining Company Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Assay Reports
Box/Folder
49 / 17
Certificates of assay
1922
Financial Records
Box/Folder
49 / 18
Taxes: Lewis and Clark County
1901-1903
Legal Documents
Box/Folder
49 / 19
Abstract of title; legal notice
1905-1916
Maps
Box/Folder
49 / 20
Lexington mine and other claims in Scratchgravel Mining District, Lewis and Clark County [oversize maps in OVERSIZE FOLDER 7]
1922
Organization
Box/Folder
49 / 21
Stock certificates signed by E.F. Child and George B. Child)
1881-1885

Mcconnell, Cook And Company / A.b. Cook Missoula Properties Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Interoffice Correspondence
Box/Folder
50 / 1-2
A.B. Cook and F.W. McConnell
1889-1892
50 / 3
Telegrams
1889-1890
Incoming Correspondence
Box/Folder
50 / 4
Arkansaw Traveller Publishing Company
1889-1890
50 / 5
A (correspondents include Thomas E. Adams, R.C. Alden and Company, John F. Allan, M.J.E. Allison, C.H. Anderson, Rebecca Archer, John J. Applebury, John A. Armstrong, S.C. Ashby)
1889-1892
50 / 6
Bullen Bridge Company (C.A. Bullen)
1891
50 / 7
Bunnell and Eno Investment Company
1890-1892
50 / 8-10
B (correspondents include Baker and Brown Real Estate and Collections, C.W. Barber, H.P. Bartholomew, H.K. Beck, R.A. Bell, William S. Bell, D.C. Bennington, Walter M. Bickford, L.D. Bingham, Hiram S. Blanchard, Fielding Bradford, A.J. Bradley, Theodore Brantly, Brown and Haywood Stained Glass Works, Sidney H. Butler, T.H. Burke, A.H. Burns, W.C. Buskett, Butte Real Estate Chronicle)
1889-1892
50 / 11
R.L. Clinton; Clinton and Proctor
1890
50 / 12
Tom Cox
1892-1893
50 / 13-14
C (correspondents include D.W. Campbell; Thomas H. Carter; Casey, Holland and Company; M. Cassell; R.M. Cobban and Company; N.H. Connolly; J.R. Conrey; George Coscadden; W.C. Crandall)
1889-1892
50 / 15
Henry H. Davis
1890-1892
50 / 16
D (correspondents include Dargen and James, R.A. Day, Leonie Demers, N.T. Dinsmore, W.H. Dittmer, James Downey, R.G. Dun and Company)
1889-1892
50 / 17
E (correspondents include E.D. Edgerton, Ehle and Dickinson, C.E. Ellis, John W. Eviss)
1889-1892
50 / 18
Finnegan Manufacturing Company
1891
50 / 19
Fire Association of Philadelphia
1891-1892
50 / 20
First National Bank of Missoula
1890-1895
50 / 21
F (correspondents include E.J. Field, John T. Firth, Fleckstein and Mayer, Folk and Devine, Forbes and Davis, Charles H. Fuller)
1889-1892
50 / 22
W.G. Gooding, Commission Merchant (includes price quotes on mining properties)
1890
50 / 23
Guardian Assurance Company
1890-1892
50 / 24
G (correspondents include F.P. Gable, George H. Garnett, W.C. Gass, C.M. Gates, John B. Gavin, F.M. Geer, M.P. Gilchrist, John D. Gill, E.C. Gove, N.N. Grant, A.J. Gray, F.R. Griffith)
1889-1892
50 / 25
Harry H. Hook
1890
50 / 26
S.P. Hull
1892
51 / 1
H (correspondents include John J. Hagerty, J.C. Hall, Luther Harrison, N.Y. Hass, W.W. Heacock, G.M. Hedderich, Arthur Helwig, T.J. Holt and Company, Hosum and Curtin, W.J. Hunter, Charles S. Hutchinson)
1889-1892
51 / 2
A.W. Ide, map publisher
1890-1891
51 / 3
I (correspondents include Independent Publishing Company, Investors Directory Company, The Irrigation Age, Francis Irvine)
1890-1892
51 / 4-5
Jarvis-Conklin Mortgage Trust Company
1889-1890
51 / 6
J (correspondents include G.W. Jackson, C.B. Jacquemin and Company, George R. Jenkins and Company, Journal Publishing Company)
1890-1892
51 / 7
R.W. Kay
1890-1892
51 / 8
L. Kimball Printing Company
1890
51 / 9
W. Klingberg, civil engineer
1891
51 / 10
K (correspondents include Julius Kahn, P.H. Kelly, J.M. Kennedy, Clarence J. Kinna, Frank Kinne, Karl A. Knupfer, P.C. Krigbaum and Company)
1889-1892
51 / 11
L (correspondents include Leon A. LaCroix, S.G. Larimore, P. Larson, Phil E. Lawrence, N. Lester, J.B. Lewis, B.F. Liepner, Robert Love, R.A. Luke and Company)
1890-1892
51 / 12
McConnell and Clayberg (N.W. McConnell, O.W. McConnell)
1890
51 / 13
F.W. McConnell (after partnership dissolved)
1894-1895
51 / 14
J.R. McLaren (Bitter Root Land Agency)
1889-1891
51 / 15
John F. McLennon (Northwest Abstract Company)
1890
51 / 16
Mc (correspondents include N.J. McConnell, architect; D.F. McDevitt, architect; James D. McDermid; Ed H. McDonald; Edgar McKeen; J.C. McKie; D.M. McLeod; John McMurray)
1889-1892
51 / 17
Minnesota Savings and Investment Company
1892
51 / 18
Montana Savings Bank
1891
51 / 19
Ellis L. Motte (includes The Realty Company)
1890-1892
51 / 20-21
M (correspondents include Maling and Taft, A.G. Mandel, C.H. Martien, A.M. Mason, Matheson and Company, W.H. May, L.F. Menage, Miner Publishing Company, Missoula city and county, Missoula County Abstract Company, Mitchell and Lewis Company wagons, Montana National Bank, Andrew C. Morgan)
1889-1894
51 / 22
Niagara Publishing Company (American Investments)
1891-1892
51 / 23
N (correspondents include Nathan Brothers, E.P. Noll and Company, Northern Pacific and Montana Railroad Company, Northern Pacific Railroad Company, Northwestern Land Company)
1889-1893
51 / 24
O (correspondents include W.P. Ogden; Ohio State Journal Company; S.A. Olmstead; Orcutt Company, lithographers; John M. Orr)
1890-1892
51 / 25
W.A. Pennycook
1889-1892
51 / 26
L.G. Phelps (Montana National Bank; Fourth of July Mining Company)
1889-1892
51 / 27
E.L. Proctor (enclosing proofs of lithography for letterhead)
1890
51 / 28
W.C. Pyfer
1889-1892
52 / 1-2
P (correspondents include Pacific Insurance Union, Pacific States Advertising Bureau, W.F. Parker, Passmore and Jeffries, George L. Peck, George H. Pew, S.A. Philpott, R.L. Polk and Company, Jules L. Prickett)
1889-1892
52 / 3
Q (correspondents include John A. Quirk, W.J. Quirk)
1890-1892
52 / 4
Realty Company (B.W. Crowninshield)
1890-1892
52 / 5
Reeder and Helmick (re Missoula Water Works and Milling Company ditch)
1889-1890
52 / 6-7
Fred H. Rice (Western Farm Mortgage Company; Witherbee and Hunter)
1890-1891
52 / 8
Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone Company
1890-1892
52 / 9
R (correspondents include W.H. Raymond, J.M. Reed, T.W. Rittenhouse, William L. Robertson, J.M. Robinson, W.H. Roland, D.H. Ross, Kenneth Ross, R. Lewis Rutter)
1889-1892
52 / 10
R.B. Sherburn
1890-1892
52 / 11
M.M. Shiland
1890-1892
52 / 12
C.D. Sinclair
1891-1892
52 / 13
J.L. Stack and Company
1890
52 / 14
Grace Stambaugh
1890
52 / 15
A.J. Steele (includes Steele and Company; Steele and Clements)
1889-1892
52 / 16-17
S (correspondents include J.U. Sanders, C.A. Scott, S.F. Shannon, J.C. Shaubut, James B. Shaw, W.M. Shaw, A.L. Sherer, E.V. Smalley, Smith and Wyman, E.D. Sniffen, N.G. Snow and Company, G.F. Spaulding, J.H. Suiter, Emma Swain)
1890-1892
52 / 18
T-U (correspondents include John G. Taylor, E.H. Thompson, William Treacy, Underwriters Agency)
1889-1892
52 / 19
W.D. Vincent
1891
52 / 20
V (correspondents include J.G. VanWail, Vermillion Committee)
1889-1892
52 / 21
Belle Waggener
1889-1891
52 / 22
Wallace, Thornburgh and Appleton; Wallace and Thornburgh
1890-1891
52 / 23
J.F. Wardner
1891-1892
52 / 24
Westchester Fire Insurance Company (James N. Reynolds)
1891-1892
52 / 25
Western Farm Mortgage Trust Company
1890-1891
52 / 26
A.F. Whitcomb
1890-1892
52 / 27
J.R. Whitmore
1889-1891
52 / 28
W (correspondents include O.E. Wedgewood, F.M. Williams, L.E. Williams, Sara Williams, Witherbee and Wheeler, Wolf and Ryman, J.B. Wood, Frank H. Woody)
1889-1894
52 / 29
Y-Z (correspondents include W.R. Young; A. Zeese and Company, photo-zinc etchers)
1890-1892
53 / 1-5
Telegrams
1889-1892
General Correspondence
Box/Folder
53 / 6
B (correspondents include Walter Bickford, Blackfoot Forest Protective Association, Booth and Booth; Booth, McIntosh and Fisher)
1910, 1927-1928
53 / 7
R.M. Cobban Realty Company
1906-1907
53 / 8
C-H (correspondents include H.E. Chaney, J.C. Epperson, E. Firchom, Fisher and Van Valen, W.R. Glasscock, Hall and Patterson, J.M. Hladik)
1907-1909, 1927-1928
53 / 9
Warren Jones
1915-1918
53 / 10
J-L (correspondents include Kline and Keith, Charles J. Lange)
1907-1909
53 / 11
C.H. McLeod (Missoula Mercantile Company)
1906
53 / 12
Missoula city and county
1906-1912, 1927-1928
53 / 13
M-P (correspondents include F.W. McConnell, S.R. Mercer, Louis F. Nicolet, O.B.S. Orr, Harry H. Parsons, William C. Pyfer)
1906-1910, 1925, 1928
53 / 14-17
James M. Rhoades, Real Estate and Insurance
1906-1913
53 / 18
R (correspondents include A.F. Randall, M. Ratigan, Ross and Violette)
1906, 1927-1928
53 / 19
Stoddard and Price, Missoula Insurance and Real Estate Agency
1906-1908
53 / 20
S-T (correspondents include George Slack, H.M. Small, LaVantia Smith, R. deB. Smith, George L. Steinbrenner, Frank Thomas)
1906-1912, 1927
53 / 21
C.E. Woodworth
1923-1924
53 / 22
W (correspondents include Watson Agency, Western Montana National Bank, E.A. Winstanley)
1908-1909, 1923, 1928
Financial Records
Box/Folder
53 / 23
Accounts
1891-1892
53 / 24-25
Bank books, bank statements, cancelled checks
1889-1893
Volume
Vol. 5
Bills, receipts, etc.
1891-1892
Box/Folder
53 / 26
Bills, receipts, etc.
1891-1911
53 / 27
Bills and notes payable and receivable
1890-1892
53 / 28
Financial statements (includes Missoula Syndicate)
1889-1900
53 / 29
Inventory
1891
54 / 1
Loan applications (includes property descriptions, inventories, livestock value, etc.)
1890
54 / 2
Lot ledger
1900-1909, 1926
54 / 3-4
Lot lists
1891-1898, n.d.
54 / 5
Pocket journal
1889-1892
54 / 6
Syndicate sales on deed, contract, and bond
1889-1891
54 / 7-10
Tax assessment lists
1892-1928
Legal Documents
Box/Folder
55 / 1
Agreement with The Syndicate
1889
55 / 2
Agreement with Peter Larson
1890
55 / 3
Certificates of redemption for delinquent taxes
1891-1929
55 / 4
Deeds
1890-1902
55 / 5
Partnership agreement and dissolution
1889-1891
55 / 6
Miscellaneous (includes mortgage agreements, building removal agreements, sales agreement)
1889-1891, 1909
55 / 7
Missoula properties [oversize maps in OVERSIZE FOLDER 7]
1891, n.d.
Subject Files
Box/Folder
55 / 8
Proposed Valley National Bank (also includes statements of condition of several banks)
1891
Miscellany
Box/Folder
OvFd / 7
Missoula Power and Irrigation Company flume and ditch drawings
1891

Montana Concrete Construction Company Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Court Papers
Box/Folder
56 / 1
H.L. Wilson, T.R. Hinds, and A.B. Cook vs. Yegan Brothers and Cothron and Todd (re Park County Free Public High School sidewalks)
1908
Financial Records
Box/Folder
56 / 2
Balance sheets for work in Bozeman, Dillon, and Livingston on account Ben Hager
1905, n.d.
56 / 3
Pocket ledgers
1905

Montana Independent Telephone Company Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
General Correspondence
Box/Folder
56 / 4
A-C (correspondents include Charles C. Adams, R.D. Alden, F.W. Buff, H.E. Chaney, George Cox)
1910-1912
56 / 5
John F. Davies
1909-1912
56 / 6
D-K (correspondents include Edward J. Dahms, Exchange National Bank, Interstate Consolidated Telephone Company, C.J. Kelly)
1910-1911
56 / 7-10
Thaddeus S. Lane
1908-1915
56 / 11
M-R (correspondents include John MacGinniss, B.E. Matthews, W.F. McKee, Montana Independent Telephone Company circular letters, John M. Murphy, T.E. Partridge, John A. Roebling's Sons Company)
1914-1915
56 / 12
Milton Smith (Interstate Telephone Company)
1914-1915
56 / 13
S-W (correspondents include Silver Bow National Bank; State Telephone and Telegraph Company; Stern, Anderson and Davis; Union Bank and Trust Company; Washington Fire Insurance Company)
1910-1912
Financial Records
Box/Folder
56 / 14
Financial statements
1910-1913
56 / 15
Ledger
1909-1912
56 / 16
Promissory notes
1910
Legal Documents
Box/Folder
56 / 17
Agreements with John A. Roebling's Sons Company
1910
Organization
Box/Folder
56 / 18
Annual reports to stockholders, prospecti, etc.
1909-1911
Subject Files
Box/Folder
56 / 19
Billings Mutual Telephone Company
1910-1913
56 / 20
Home Telephone and Telegraph Company
1909-1912
Clippings
Box/Folder
56 / 21
Re company
1912

National Life Insurance Company Of Montana Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
General Correspondence
Box/Folder
56 / 22
Miscellaneous (correspondents include William A. Matthews, Morgan Edwards and Company, J.M. Dawson, A.T. Morgan)
1910-1912
Financial Records
Box/Folder
56 / 23
Financial statement, promissory notes
1910-1911
Organization
Box/Folder
56 / 24
Prospectus
1911

Shannon And Cook Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Incoming Correspondence
Box/Folder
57 / 1
D.P. Sheldon
1888
Assay Reports
Box/Folder
57 / 2
Certificate of assay
1888
Financial Records
Box/Folder
57 / 3
Bills, receipts, etc.
1888-1889

Silver Bow National Bank Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
General Correspondence
Box/Folder
57 / 4
B-R (correspondents include H.P. Bennett, J.P. Browne, John F. Davies, Tom R. Hinds, Zephin Job, R.X. Lewis, John Maginniss, McBride and McBride, M.L. Rigby)
1907-1918
57 / 5
Robert T.F. Smith, cashier
1907-1912
57 / 6
U-W (correspondents include United States Treasury Dept., Charles W. Warren)
1909
Financial Records
Box/Folder
57 / 7
Expense accounts
1907-1908
57 / 8
Reports of condition
1907-1908, 1919-1920
Legal Documents
Box/Folder
57 / 9
Agreement between T.R. Hinds, John Maginniss, A.B. Cook, Robert T.F. Smith, and Zephin Job; and State Savings Bank and T.E. Collins for sale of Silver Bow National Bank paper
1907
Organization
Box/Folder
57 / 10
Minutes of meeting, clipping re consolidation of Silver Bow National Bank and Commercial Bank, list of stockholders
1909, n.d.

Toronto Construction Company / Cook, Deeks And Hinds Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
General Correspondence
Box/Folder
57 / 11
George S. Deeks
1906-1909, 1915, 1918
57 / 12
Levi W. Naylor
1906-1907
57 / 13
A.M. Stewart (re Deeks vs. Cook, et al.)
1914-1918
57 / 14
Watson, Smoke and Smith (includes references to Clark vs. Cook)
1906-1907

Trail Creek Coal Company Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Employment Records
Box/Folder
57 / 15
Payroll / timesheets
1899-1900
Financial Records
Box/Folder
57 / 16
Bank statements and cancelled checks
1899-1900
Organization
Box/Folder
57 / 17
Articles of incorporation; stock certificates
1898-1899

Tuttle Land Company Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
General Correspondence
Box/Folder
57 / 18
Alexander McKenzie, Lee Pettibone, Matteson M. Mounts
1913-1923
Financial Records
Box/Folder
57 / 19
Bank statements, cancelled checks, etc.
1915-1920
57 / 20
Financial statements
1916-1923
57 / 21
List of promissory notes
1913-1914, n.d.
Organization
Box/Folder
57 / 22
Minutes of annual meeting; papers re dissolution of company
1916, 1920

Republican Party Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Incoming Correspondence
Box/Folder
57 / 23
Republican Central Committee, Missoula County chairman Gust. Moser: A-G (correspondents include Ike Abernathy, W.E. Baggs, D.P. Belden, O.C. Cooper, Martin Cramer, E.M. Dinnick, George W. Dougherty, Charles B. Gibbs)
1889
57 / 24
Republican Central Committee, Missoula County chairman Gust. Moser: H (correspondents include W.R. Hamilton, Zeb. M. Harris, J.W. Hathaway, M.B. Hendricks)
1889
57 / 25
Republican Central Committee, Missoula County chairman Gust. Moser: J-R (correspondents include Garl T. Jones, R.W. Martin, M.J. McCutcheon, Silas Mitchell, George Miles, James Morris, C.H. Musgrave, T.C. Power, D.H. Ross)
1889
57 / 26
Republican Central Committee, Missoula County chairman Gust. Moser: A.J. Seligman (Republican State Central Committee)
1889
57 / 27
Republican Central Committee, Missoula County chairman Gust. Moser: S-W (correspondents include A.C. Sheldon, J.K. Squiers, H.G. Swaney, Henry Therriault, Henry C. Tuttle, Frank Westler, Lyle Worden)
1889
57 / 28
Republican Central Committee, Missoula County circular letters
1889
58 / 1
Republican Central Committee, Missoula County chairman A.B. Cook: A-B (correspondents include James A. Allen, W.E. Baggs, George H. Bell, C.H. Bernard, P.N. Bernard, Alex. C. Botkin, W.J. Brennan, Amos Buck, Charles Buck)
1892
58 / 2
Republican Central Committee, Missoula County chairman A.B. Cook: C-H (correspondents include T.A. Churchill, R.L. Clinton, O.C. Cooper, Thomas A. Cummings, G.W. Dougherty, J.T. Farris, E.S. French, C.B. Gibbs, C. Gillen, Frank Hatton)
1892
58 / 4
Republican Central Committee, Missoula County chairman A.B. Cook: M (correspondents include Frank W. McConnell, James A. McGowan, B.J. McIntire, M.A. Meyendorff, J.K. Miller, H.J. Mock, Montana Attorney General, Frank J. Morris, George Mueller, C. H. Musgrave)
1892
58 / 5
Republican Central Committee, Missoula County chairman A.B. Cook: N-P (correspondents include Robert A. O'Hara, John D. Posten, T.C. Power)
1892
58 / 6
Republican Central Committee, Missoula County chairman A.B. Cook: N-P (correspondents include Republican State Central Committee members Lee Mantle, Sidney M. Logan)
1892
58 / 7
Republican Central Committee, Missoula County chairman A.B. Cook: R-V (correspondents include Republican National Committee, A.J. Seligman, J.B. Shaw, Perry Silvey, M.P. Stephens, Martin Toole, A.L. Treat, Henry L. Van Wyck)
1892
58 / 8
Republican Central Committee, Missoula County chairman A.B. Cook: W (correspondents include C.L. Wayland, Benjamin Webster, John Wessel, M.L. Whaley, W.C. Whipps)
1892
58 / 9
P.N. Bernard
1893
58 / 10
Missoula County Republican Central Committee, Republican National Committee, Republican State Central Committee
1894-1895
Outgoing Correspondence
Box/Folder
58 / 11
Letterpress book: "Campaign of 1892"
1892
General Correspondence
Box/Folder
58 / 12-13
Miscellaneous (correspondents include Fletcher Maddox, Matteson M. Mounts, John Willis, Frank O. Lowden, Andrew Mellon, J.E. Edwards, Republican National Committee)
1921-1928
Financial Records
Box/Folder
58 / 14
Miscellaneous (includes bills and accounts)
1889
58 / 15
Miscellaneous (includes bills, receipts, checks, etc.)
1892
Miscellany
Box/Folder
58 / 16
Petition for Tin Cup post office; precinct vote totals, list of precinct chairmen, results of canvas
1889
58 / 17
Lists of Missoula County Republicans
1892
58 / 18
Schedule of John E. Rickards speeches; appointment of special deputy sheriffs for election day
1892
58 / 19
Petitions for Frank O. Lowden for President
1928?
58 / 20
Campaign brochures for Wellington D. Rankin for Governor and for Republican candidates; campaign songs
1922, 1926, n.d.
Clippings
Box/Folder
58 / 21
Political (includes Republican National Committee, Frank O. Lowden campaign for President)
1926-1928

Frank Hervey Cook Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Incoming Correspondence
Box/Folder
59 / 1
B-J (correspondents include Engineers Public Service Company, First Seattle Dexter Horton Securities Company, Innovation Ingenuities Inc.)
1924-1949
59 / 2
LaSalle Extension University. School of Law
1925
59 / 3
Frank Hervey Pettingell (includes Estate)
1908, 1925, 1927
59 / 4
P-Y, unidentified (correspondents include St. Paul's School, Washington Mutual Savings Bank, White Sulphur Springs and Yellowstone Park Railway Company)
1925-1949, n.d.
59 / 5-15
Personal, social (correspondents include Eileen Coghlan, Vivian Cowan, Mabel Holdaway, Hilda Richeson, Harriet Laurie Ruiter [Lena's sister], Ruth Schlenske, unidentified)
1924-1938
Financial Records
Box/Folder
59 / 16-22
Bank statements and cancelled checks
1922-1931
60 / 1
Bank statements and cancelled checks: C.R. Cattle and Sheep Company (Wellington D. Rankin)
1929-1930
60 / 2
Bank statements and cancelled checks: Cook Candy Company
1927
60 / 3
Bank statements and cancelled checks: Trustee Account
1931
60 / 4
Bills, receipts, etc.
1932-1950
60 / 5-7
Commodity and stock accounts
1923-1955
60 / 8
Stock ownership ledgers and margin trading
1921-1923
60 / 9
Miscellaneous (includes livestock shipment memo book; expenses, Gosnell lease account)
1930-1936, n.d.
Legal Documents
Box/Folder
60 / 10
Apartment lease, New York City
1924-1925
Reports
Box/Folder
60 / 11
Monthly report of water distribution to Hervey Cook on Confederate Creek [scattered]
1929-1935
60 / 12
"Report of the distilling industry," by Hervey Cook
1936?
60 / 13
Report on Gould Mine
1928?
60 / 14
Report to stockholders of Diamond City Mines Company
1935
School Notes and Records
Box/Folder
60 / 15
Irving School
1911
60 / 16-17
St. Paul's School (includes report cards, finances, publications, yearbook, etc.)
1915-1919
60 / 18
Princeton University (includes book store account, financial statement)
1919-1921
Miscellany
Box/Folder
60 / 19
Sons of the Revolution membership card; Willow Creek Ranch ad (George B. Sim); toasts; etc.)
1920-1936

Gloria Braid Cook Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Miscellany
Box/Folder
61 / 1
Correspondence, bills, court receipt, clippings, etc.
1928-1933, n.d.

Lena Gosnell Bowyer Finley Cook Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Incoming Correspondence
Box/Folder
61 / 2-3
Robert M. Clarke and others (re legal affairs, inheritance, etc.)
1929-1931
61 / 4
Harriet L. Gosnell (sister-in-law)
1931-1933
61 / 5
Family and friends (many unidentified)
1931-1933
Financial Records
Box/Folder
61 / 6
Checkstubs
1933
61 / 7
Financial statements
1929-1930
61 / 8
Truman B. Gosnell bills (father)
1929
Subject Files
Box/Folder
61 / 9
Harry Bowyer's Canadian property
1924
61 / 10
Estate materials
1934
Miscellany
Box/Folder
61 / 11
House floor plans and decoarating ideas
1932-1933
61 / 12-13
European travel itinerary
1928
61 / 14-16
European travel brochures, etc.
1928
61 / 17
Memorabilia, address book, etc.
n.d.

Margaret A. Cook Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Financial Records
Box/Folder
62 / 1
Insurance on household furnishings
1900-1903
62 / 2
Taxes on Missoula property
1898-1927
Legal Documents
Box/Folder
62 / 3
Miscellaneous (includes deed to Helena Cemetery Association lot, deeds to Missoula lots)
1895-1908

Mary Morgan Cook Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Incoming Correspondence
Box/Folder
62 / 4
Miscellaneous (correspondents include Frank Hervey Cook, A.B. Cook, Episcopal Diocese of Montana, Mayo Clinic, Mary Agnes Cook, unidentified)
1918-1928, n.d.
62 / 5-6
Condolences on death of A.B. Cook
1928-1929
Miscellaneous Correspondence
Box/Folder
62 / 7
Letter from Fitch H. Medbury to G.P. Kievenaar (re death of Mary Morgan Cook's mother, and family problems)
1928
Financial Records
Box/Folder
62 / 8
Bills, receipts, etc.
1914-1929

Mary Agnes Cook Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Incoming Correspondence
Box/Folder
62 / 9
Harry P. Bennett
1923-1925, n.d.
62 / 10
Frank J. Kelly
1923-1925
Legal Documents
Box/Folder
62 / 11
Sales contract on automobile
1927
School Notes and Records
Box/Folder
62 / 12
Miscellaneous (includes Emma Willard School, Knox School, Ossining School, Finch School, Blessed Sacrament Convent, Helena Business College)
1913-1926

Transfers To Other Programs Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Transfers
Box/Folder
62 / 13
Lists of printed material, maps, photographs, and artifacts transferred to the Library, Photograph Archives, and Museum respectively

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Aqueducts--Quebec--Montreal
  • Railroads--Design and construction
  • Agricultural exhibitions
  • Agricultural experiment stations
  • Cattle raising--Montana
  • Cattle breeding
  • Dams--Design and construction
  • Ditches
  • Employment agencies
  • Exhibitions
  • Farmers
  • Grazing leases
  • Hereford cattle--breeding
  • Horse breeding
  • Indians of North America--Land transfers
  • Irrigation
  • Land companies
  • Mines and mineral resources--Canada
  • Mines and mineral resources--Minnesota
  • Mines and mineral resources--Montana--Broadwater County
  • Mines and mineral resources--Montana--Jefferson County
  • Mines and mineral resources--Montana--Lewis and Clark County
  • Mining claims
  • Ranches
  • Sheep ranches--Montana
  • Sheep dogs
  • Telephone
  • Water rights
  • Water-power
  • Water-supply
  • Wildlife habitat improvement

Geographical Names

  • Bedford (Mont.)
  • Bedford Ranch (Mont.)
  • Bynum Irrigation District (Mont.)
  • Bynum Reservoir Dam (Mont.)
  • Dunleavy Ranch (Mont.)
  • Flying U Ranch (Bynum, Mont.)
  • Halifax (N.s.)
  • Halifax Ocean Terminals Railway
  • Luppold Ranch (Mont.)
  • Mcintyre Ranch (Alta.)
  • Mckenzie Mine (Cuyuna Range, Minn.)
  • Missoula (Mont.)--Commerce
  • Montreal (Que.)
  • Sheep Creek Ranch (Mont.)
  • Springville (Mont.)
  • Standing Rock Indian Reservation (N.d. And S.d.)
  • Winnecook Ranch (Mont.)