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History of Montana. 1739-1885 : A history of its discovery and settlement, social and commercial progress, mines and miners, agriculture and stock-growing, churches, schools and societies, Indians and Indian wars, vigilantes, courts of justice, newspaper press, navigation, railroads and statistics, with histories of counties, cities, villages and mining camps ...

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Title	History of Montana. 1739-1885 : A history of its discovery and settlement, social and commercial progress, mines and miners, agriculture and stock-growing, churches, schools and societies, Indians and Indian wars, vigilantes, courts of justice, newspaper press, navigation, railroads and statistics, with histories of counties, cities, villages and mining camps ...
Creator	Leeson, M. A. (Michael A.)
Subject	History
Description	This book, originally published in 1885, is a 1,367 page reference exploring topics such as the exploration and occupation of Montana, Indian history, wars, trading and military posts, mining, newspapers, churches, and societies during the time between 1735 and 1885. The book includes treatments of 13 Montana counties as well as personal ""reminisciences"" from several notable Montanans. The book also contains over 500 illustrations of people, buildings, farms, ranches, and natural features of the era.
Date Original	1885
Type	Text
Contributing Institution	The University of Montana
Genre	books
Geographic Coverage	Montana
Date Digitized	2007
Digital Format	image/jpeg
Language	English
Provenance	Gift of Bill Papesh
Publisher (Original)	Chicago, Warner, Beers & Co.,
Relation	[IsPartOf] The Early Montana Histories Collection, Mansfield Library, University of Montana-Missoula. http://www.lib.umt.edu/digital/EarlyMTHistories
Local Identifier	umt0000020; Digitized at 600 dpi at 8 bit gray scale. Scanners used for this project include the Microtek OpticBook 3600, as well as the Epson 10000 XL. Un-retouched master images are stored in uncompressed TIFF format. Access images viewable from this site have been downsampled in Adobe Photoshop CS to 150 dpi and 1,500 pixels on the long edge. Optical Character Recognition was accomplished using ABBYY FineReader version 8.0.
Rights Management	Copyright 2008 University of Montana. All rights reserved.
Physical Collection	978.6 L487h
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