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Neil Fullerton Research Collection: Northwest Montana History Fullerton (Neil) papers, 1932-1968

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Fullerton, Neil, 1903-1968
Title
Neil Fullerton Research Collection: Northwest Montana History Fullerton (Neil) papers
Dates
1932-1968 (inclusive)
Quantity
3.3 linear feet of shelf space
Collection Number
MC 76 (collection)
Summary
The Neil Fullerton Collection (1932-1968) consists primarily of research data collected by Neil Fullerton concerning the location of Saleesh House, the travels of early explorer David Thompson, the Nez Perce trek of 1877, Indian missions, the naming of local western Montana communities such as Thompson Falls, the early U.S. Forest Service, exploration and the fur trade in the Northwest, and northern Idaho.
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
Access Restrictions

Collection open for research.

Languages
English
Sponsor
Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Biographical Note

Neil Fullerton, a native of Lawton, Oklahoma, was born February 13, 1903. He received a forestry degree from Iowa State University at Ames, Iowa. After graduation Fullerton worked for the U.S. Forest Service in Utah and later in Montana. He served three years in the Navy during World War II. He returned to the Forest Service following the war and worked in Thompson Falls, Montana, until his death on May 20, 1968. During his spare time Fullerton researched the history of northwestern Montana. He helped to survey and locate Saleesh House, an early trading post on the Clark Fork River.

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Content Description

Research collection. 1909-1968. 3.3 linear feet. This collection consists primarily of research data collected by Neil Fullerton concerning the location of Saleesh House, the travels of early explorer David Thompson, the Nez Perce trek of 1877, Indian missions, the naming of local western Montana communities, and northern Idaho. Files include clippings, article reprints, personal interviews, research notes, and maps. Included are some writings by Fullerton, as well as by other western Montana amateur historians.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

Researchers must use collection in accordance with the policies of the Montana Historical Society. The Society does not necessarily hold copyright to all materials in the collection. In some cases permission for use may require additional authorization from the copyright owners. For more information contact an archivist.

Preferred Citation

Item description and date. Collection Title. Collection Number. Box and Folder numbers. Montana Historical Society Research Center, Archives, Helena, Montana.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

Arranged by series. Some material housed in oversize folder in archives map case. See inventory below for more information.

Location of Collection

4:5-1

Acquisition Information

Acquisition information available upon request

Related Materials

Both this collection and MF 310b contain research material, writings, and maps on the possible location of Saleesh House, including a manuscript written with Thain White entitled "The Possible Location of Saleesh House."

Separated Materials

Artifacts, photographs, and printed material transferred to the MHS Museum, Photo Archives, and Library, respecitvely. See inventory below for more information.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

Detailed Description of the Collection

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

  • Subject Files

    • Description: "Air Wells" (Thompson Falls)
      Dates: 1961, undated
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 1
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Ashley Creek" (re Nelson Grandchamp sawmill)
      Dates: 1966-1967
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 2
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Bad Rock"
      Dates: 1962-1965
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 3
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Books-References-Dealers" (correspondence and book catalogs re historical literature)
      Dates: 1960-1961
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 4
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "John Britt"
      Dates: 1960-1966
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 5
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Buffalo Butchering" (re Moiese herd)
      Dates: 1956-1967
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 6
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Buffalo hunt" (Alaska)
      Dates: 1962-1968
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 7
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Bill Cooper" (re Brazillia Fonzo Cooper)
      Dates: 1960
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 8
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Custer Battle" (clippings)
      Dates: 1961-1967
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 9
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Dams" (clippings)
      Dates: 1959-1964
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 10-11
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Dams" (printed material)
      Dates: 1959-1962
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 1
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Davis, Evelyn M." ("before Sanders County" re Shannonville)
      Dates: 1954-1966
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 2
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Col. W. DeLacy"
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 3
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Fences"
      Dates: 1963-1966
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 4
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Ferris, W.A." (excerpts from "Life in the Rocky Mountains")
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 5
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Field notes" (re surveying)
      Dates: 1950, 1964-1965
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 6
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Fires" (clippings)
      Dates: 1949-1967
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 7
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Fires" (interviews and miscellaneous)
      Dates: 1963-1967, undated
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 8
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Ed Fitzgerald" (clippings, drawings)
      Dates: 1958-1962, undated
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 9
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Ed Fitzgerald" (financial records)
      Dates: 1909-1916
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 10
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Ed Fitzgerald" (interviews and miscellaneous)
      Dates: 1958-1962, undated
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 11
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Flathead House"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 12
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Flathead Valley Historical Society" (re field trip, miscellaneous)
      Dates: 1965
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 13
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Forest Service"
      Dates: 1965-1968
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 1
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Fort Owen"
      Dates: 1958-1965
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 2
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Franchere, G." (excerpt from "Narrative of a Voyage")
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 3
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Galloway" (re Dallas F. Galloway)
      Dates: 1964-1967
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 4
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Patrick Gass"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 5
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Graves" (re Chinese graves)
      Dates: 1961-1968
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 6
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Halfway House" (Sanders County)
      Dates: 1954-1966
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 7
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Hartman" (re Homer Hartman of C.H. Scribner)
      Dates: 1965-1967
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 8
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Herriott, D.V."
      Dates: 1962-1967
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 9
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "History notes" (re Lasso Stasso of Arlee and Catholics in Montana)
      Dates: 1952, undated
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 10
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Robert Hitchman"
      Dates: 1960-1963
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 11
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Indian games"
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 12
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Indians"
      Dates: 1966-1967
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 13
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Indians" (clippings)
      Dates: 1959-1967
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 14-15
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Indians" (re Nez Perce War)
      Dates: 1963-1967, undated
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 16
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Inland Empire" (clippings re Spokane, Washington)
      Dates: 1957-1965
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 1
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Kootenai Trail" [Oversize Material in Map Case]
      Dates: 1967-1968, undated
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 2
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Kootenai Trail" [Map Case]
      Dates: 1967-1968, undated
      Container: Oversize Folder 1
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Krueger" (re Carl C. Krueger)
      Dates: 1968
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 3
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Legends" (clippings)
      Dates: 1959-1967
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 4
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Lewis and Clark"
      Dates: 1962-1968
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 5
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Duncan McDonald"
      Dates: 1967
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 6
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Theodore McEvers"
      Dates: 1959-1967
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 7
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "McLean" (re Marie McLean)
      Dates: 1963-1966
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 8
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Mass, Mrs. Fred" (Janet Mass)
      Dates: 1961-1962
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 9
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Missions"
      Dates: 1960-1967
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 10
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Monuments" (re David Thompson)
      Dates: 1963
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 1
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Mountain House" [Oversize Material in Map Case]
      Dates: 1965, undated
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 2
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Mountain House" [Map Case]
      Dates: 1965, undated
      Container: Oversize Folder 1
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Mullan" (Mullan Road)
      Dates: 1964
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 3
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Murray - Thompson Falls - Prospect Creek" (re mining)
      Dates: 1960-1967
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 4
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Nigger Bill" (William McNorton)
      Dates: 1961-1965
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 5
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Nippert, W.E."
      Dates: 1961-1965
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 6
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "N.P. Centennial" (re Northern Pacific Charter Centennial)
      Dates: 1964
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 7
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Oxen"
      Dates: 1961
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 8
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Packing"
      Dates: 1966-1967
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 9
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Packing" (clippings)
      Dates: 1962-1967
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 10
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Packing" (re Northwest Airlines plane crash; clippings)
      Dates: 1936-1937
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 11
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Pictographs"
      Dates: 1958-1965
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 12
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Place names"
      Dates: 1932-1942
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 1
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Plains" (re town of Plains)
      Dates: 1961-1966
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 2
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Pony Express"
      Dates: 1960-1966
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 3
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Dorothy R. Powers" (clippings)
      Dates: 1957-1966
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 4
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Bernadine Prince" (re Alaska)
      Dates: 1957-1967
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 5
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Renshaw" (Emera Wolford Renshaw material re Forest Service)
      Dates: 1966-1967
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 6
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Rides through Montana" (re Thomas F. Meagher)
      Dates: 1960-1967
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 7
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Peter Ronan"
      Dates: 1939, 1962
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 8
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Sacajawea"
      Dates: 1961-1967
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 9
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "St. Regis" (re town of St. Regis)
      Dates: 1965
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 10
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Saleesh House - food and subsistence"
      Dates: 1960-1965
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 1
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Saleesh House - location"
      Dates: 1959-1967
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 2
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Saleesh House location" (includes Fullerton's manuscript written with Thain White entitled "The Possible Location of Saleesh House")
      Dates: 1959-1963
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 3
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Sanders County"
      Dates: 1963-1964
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 4
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Shannonville"
      Dates: 1962
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 5
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Steamboats"
      Dates: 1965-1966
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 6
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Stevens Treaty" (includes typescript copy of proceedings of Council of Hell Gate, 1855)
      Dates: 1962-1966
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 7
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Granville Stuart"
      Dates: 1962-1965
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 8
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Jackson Sundown" (re bronc riding)
      Dates: 1966-1967
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 9
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "David Thompson"
      Dates: 1958-1965
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 1
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "David Thompson portage"
      Dates: 1962
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 2
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Thompson Falls"
      Dates: 1959-1967
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 3
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Thompson Falls" (clippings)
      Dates: 1959-1966
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 4
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Tobacco Plains"
      Dates: 1964-1968
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 5
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Trout Creek"
      Dates: 1961-1966
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 6
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "John Vandenberg"
      Dates: 1958-1965
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 7
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Thain White" (re Battle of Rosebud and Thompson Falls)
      Dates: 1963-1966
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 8
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "John Work"
      Dates: 1959
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 9
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Wounded Knee" [Battle of]
      Dates: 1963-1967
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 10
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: "Howard Wright"
      Dates: 1966-1967
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 11
      Location: Subject Files
    • Description: Miscellaneous
      Dates: 1962-1966
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 12
      Location: Subject Files

  • Transfers to Other Programs

    • Description: List of artifacts, photographs, and printed materials transferred to Museum, Photo Archives, and Library respectively
      Dates:
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 13
      Location: Transfers to Other Programs

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Subject Terms

  • American Bison
  • Cheyenne Indians--Wars, 1876
  • Dakota Indians--Wars, 1876-1877
  • Dams--Montana
  • Electric Power
  • Fishing Guides
  • Forest Fires--Montana
  • Historic Sites
  • History--Research
  • Hunting Guides
  • Indians of North America
  • Indians of North America--Treaties
  • Little Big Horn, Battle of The, Mont., 1876
  • Missionaries
  • Nez Perce Indians--Wars, 1877
  • Picture-Writing, Indian

Personal Names

  • Fullerton, Neil, 1903-1968 (creator)

Geographical Names

  • Alaska--Commerce
  • Bad Rock (Mont.)
  • Coeur D'Alene Mining District (Idaho)
  • Flathead House (Mont.)
  • Fort Owen (Mont.)
  • Idaho
  • Knowles Dam (Mont.)
  • Kootenai Trail (Mont.)
  • Libby Dam (Mont.)
  • Moiese (MONT.)
  • Mountain House (Mont.)
  • Mullan Road
  • National Bison Range (Mont.)
  • Noxon Rapids DAM (Mont.)
  • Plains (MONT.)
  • ST. REGIS (Mont.)
  • Saleesh HOUSE (Mont.)
  • Sanders County (Mont.)
  • Shannonville (Mont.)
  • THOMPSON FALLS (Mont.)
  • Tobacco Plains (Mont.)
  • Trout Creek (Mont.)

Finding aid prepared by the MHS staff
2004

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