Alexander Leggat Pamphlet Collection, 1863-1966

Pamphlets, brochures and broadsides dealing with a wide variety of topics in Montana history. Topics particularly well represented are Butte and Helena, Montana, the Northern Pacific, Union Pacific, and Great Northern Railways, and Montana politics and government. Originally part of the books and serials accessioned with the Leggat donation, many of these ephemeral pieces were removed for item level cataloging and placement in the library's catalog. These remaining materials are either duplicates with some marginalia or items considered too marginal to justify the creation of an original catalog record. The materials have been placed in alphabetical order by author, with a shortened title statement and date of publication following.

Unbound tear sheets and separately printed reports, documents, and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives from the sequentially numbered U.S. Congress Serial Set. Most of these materials deal specifically with Montana topics such as political, social, cultural, military and ethnic history. These materials have been chronologically arranged.

Whole and tearout copies of magazine and serial articles dealing with a wide variety of Montana topics. In those cases where the entire magazine was retained, the pertinent article is generally noted on the cover by markings made by Leggat himself. These files have been placed in alphabetical order by the magazine or serial title.

Original main entry and analytic catalog cards created by the Montana State University library to document the various pieces of the Leggat collection. Included are analytic entries for the magazine articles represented in Series 3 and main entry shelf list cards for the books and pamphlets of the Leggat collection. Many of the titles represented in the shelf list cards have already been entered into the library's holdings and have complete MARC records available online, but some cards representing the "grey literature" of the pamphlets in Series 2 are also represented. Cards representing the pamphlets in Series 1 are generally marked as such. All cards are in alphabetical order by "main entry," (author or title).