Montana: Bibliography and Sources
Montana Atlas of Historical County Boundaries
John H. Long, Editor; Peggy Tuck Sinko, Historical Compiler;
Emily Kelley, Research Associate; Laura Rico-Beck, GIS Specialist and Digital
Compiler; Peter Siczewicz, ArcIMS Interactive Map Designer; Robert Will, Cartographic Assistant.
Copyright The Newberry Library 2005
Abbott, Newton Carl, and Fred E.
Carver. Evolution of Washington Counties. Compiled by J. W. Helm.
Yakima: Yakima Valley Genealogical Society and Klickitat County Historical
Society, 1978.
Burlingame, Merrill G. “Political
Divisions in Montana.” 1974. Photocopy.
Burlingame, Merrill G., and K. Ross
Toole. History of Montana. 3 vols. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing
Co., 1957.
Chaney, Rob. “100 Most Influential
Montanans of the Century: 11. Dan McKay,” 19 February 2004, http://www.missoulian.com/specials/100montanans/list/011.html.
Cheney, Roberta Carkeek. Names on
the Face of Montana: The Story of Montana’s Place Names. Rev. ed. Missoula:
Mountain Press Publishing Co., 1984.
Crowley, Sarah. “Lines Drawn on the
Plains: Birth of Petroleum County No Easy Task,” 19 February 2004, http://www.rootsweb.com/~mtnews/mtpetroleum.htm.
Reproduced from the Lewistown News Argus, 15 December 1996.
David Rumsey Map Collection, 26 July
2004, http://www.davidrumsey.com. An online collection of over 10,000
historical maps, including many nineteenth-century maps of North America.
De Lacy, W. W. Map of the
Territory of Montana, with Portions of the Adjoining Territories. 1865.
Reprint. Montana Magazine of History 1 (April 1951): pocket, back cover.
Map prepared “for the use of the first legislature of Montana.”
Dubester, Henry J. State
Censuses: An Annotated Bibliography of Censuses of Population Taken after the
Year 1790 by States and Territories of the United States. 1948. Reprint.
New York: Burt Franklin, 1969. The standard guide for its subject.
Filby, P. William, comp. American
and British Genealogy and Heraldry: A Selected List of Books. 3d ed.
Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1983.
Filby, P. William, comp. American
and British Genealogy and Heraldry: 1982–1985 Supplement. Boston: New
England Historic Genealogical Society, 1987.
Filby, P. William, comp. Bibliography
of American County Histories. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1985.
Haines, Aubrey L. Yellowstone
Story: A History of Our First National Park. 2 vols. Yellowstone National
Park, Wyo.: Yellowstone Library and Museum Association in Cooperation with
Colorado Associated University Press, 1977.
Historical Records Survey, Montana. Carbon,
Gallatin, Park, Stillwater, Sweet Grass. Inventory of the County Archives
of Tennessee, nos. 5, 16, 34, 48, and 49. Bozeman: Montana Historical Records
Survey, 1942. County archives surveys of five counties published in one volume.
Historical Records Survey, Montana. Madison
County (Virginia City). Inventory of the County Archives of Montana, no.
28. Bozeman: Montana Historical Records Survey, 1940.
Historical Records Survey, Montana. Missoula
County (Missoula). Inventory of the County Archives of Montana, no. 32.
Missoula: Montana Historical Records Survey, 1938.
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; Also, Personal Reminiscences of Great Historic
Value; Views Characteristic of the Territory in Our Own Times, and Portraits of
Pioneers and Representative Men in the Professions and Trades. Chicago: Warner, Beers and Co.,
1885. M. A. Leeson was “asked to collate and compile” this work, and it is
often known as Leeson’s History of Montana.
Holman, Frederick V. "Oregon
Counties: Their Creations and the Origins of Their Names." Oregon
Historical Society Quarterly 11 (1910):1–81.
Howard, Joseph Kinsey. Montana:
High, Wide, and Handsome. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1943.
Idaho Territory. Laws of the
Territory of Idaho, First Session. Lewiston, 1864. Laws of Idaho Territory
passed at the first session of the territorial legislature. Cited as Idaho
Terr. Laws.
Johnson, Coburn, et al. Bibliography
of Montana Local Histories. [Missoula]: Montana Library Association in
Cooperation with the University of Montana, 1977.
Kane, Joseph Nathan. American
Counties: Origins of Names, Dates of Creation and Organization, Area,
Population, Historical Data, and Published Sources. 3d ed. Metuchen, N.J.:
Scarecrow Press, 1972.
Lainhart, Ann S. State Census
Records. [Baltimore]: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1992.
Larcombe, J. Russell, and E. E.
MacGilvra. “In Pursuit of a New County: The Creation of Phillips County—1915.”
Montana: The Magazine of Western History 27 (July 1977):72–77.
“Look at This! How Thimblerigging
Politicians Bunco and Flim-Flam the People In Making New Counties,” Fairview
Times, 28 January 1915, p. 5. Newspaper account of the boundary dispute
between Richland and Wibaux Counties.
“Lord and Meadors Sacrificing
Interests of Richland County,” Fairview Times, 4 February 1915, p. 1.
Newspaper account of the boundary dispute between Richland and Wibaux Counties.
Loy, William G., ed. Atlas of
Oregon. Eugene: University of Oregon Books, 1976.
MacDonald, Grace E., comp. Check-List
of Session Laws. New York: H. W. Wilson Co., 1936. Complemented by Pollack
(below), this guide lists all state session laws through 1935.
MacDonald, Grace E., comp. Check-List
of Statutes of States of the United States of America, Including Revisions,
Compilations, Digests, Codes and Indexes. Providence: Oxford Press, 1937.
The most complete guide to state codes through 1937.
Malone, Michael P., Richard B.
Roeder, and William L. Lang. Montana: A History of Two Centuries. Rev.
ed. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1991.
Map of Hill County, Montana. Drawn and compiled by John F.
Daoust. N.p., 1912.
Missouri. Laws of a Public and
General Nature of the State of Missouri. 2 vols. Jefferson City, Mo., 1842.
Cited as Mo. Laws Pub. and Gen.
Montana. Laws, Resolutions, and
Memorials of the State of Montana. Helena, 1891–. Cited as Mont. Laws.
Montana. Revised Codes of Montana
of 1921. Vol. 1. San Francisco:
Bancroft-Whitney Co., 1921. Cited as Mont. Rev. Code 1921.
Montana Atlas and Gazetteer. Freeport, Maine: DeLorme Mapping,
1994. A collection of seventy-four highly detailed topographic maps covering
the entire state.
Montana Code Annotated (Annotations). “Description of County
Boundaries.” Helena: Montana Legislative Services Division, 1998.
Montana Supreme Court. Reports of
Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Montana. 1868–. Cited
as Mont. Rpts.
Montana Territory. Laws,
Resolutions and Memorials of the Territory of Montana. Title varies. 1st–16th
sess. Virginia City and Helena, 1864–1889. Cited as Mont. Terr. Laws.
Noyes, A. J. In the Land of
Chinook, Or the Story of Blaine County. Helena: State Publishing Co., 1917.
[Oregon]. Laws of a General and
Local Nature Passed by the Legislative Committee and Legislative Assembly, At
Their Various Successive Sessions from the Year 1843, Down to and Inclusive of
the Session of the Territorial Legislature, Held in the Year 1849; Except Such
Laws of Said Session As Were Published in the Bound Volume of Oregon Statutes,
Dated Oregon City, 1851. Salem, Ore., 1853. Cited as Ore. Laws, gen. and
local, 1843–1849.
Oregon Archives: Including the Journals,
Governors’ Messages and Public Papers of Oregon, from the Earliest Attempt on
the Part of the People to Form a Government, Down to, and Inclusive of the
Session of the Territorial Legislature, Held in the Year 1849, Collected and
Published Pursuant to an Act of the Legislative Assembly, Passed Jan. 26, 1853.
By La Fayette Grover, Commissioner. Salem, Ore., 1853.
Oregon Territory. Laws of the
Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Oregon. Oregon City [et al.],
1849–1858. Title varies. The session laws of Oregon Territory. Cited as Ore.
Terr. Laws.
Parry, Clive, ed. Consolidated
Treaty Series. 231 vols. Dobbs Ferry, N. Y.: Oceana Publications,
1969–1981.
Paullin, Charles O. Atlas of the
Historical Geography of the United States. Edited by John K. Wright.
Washington, D.C., and New York: Carnegie Institution of Washington and American
Geographical Society of New York, 1932. Excellent section on international and
interstate boundary disputes.
Pemberton, W. Y. “Changing the Name
of Edgerton County.” Contributions to the Historical Society of Montana 8
(1917):323–327.
Pollack, Ervin H., comp. Supplement
with Bibliographical Notes, Emendations, and Additions to the Check List of
Session Laws, Complied by Grace E. MacDonald. Preliminary ed. Boston:
National Association of State Libraries, 1941. Fills gap in MacDonald’s 1936
compilation (above) to produce the most complete list of state session laws
through 1935.
Prosch, Thomas W. “Evolution of
Spokane and Stevens Counties.” Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society
5 (1904):25–33.
Rabenhorst, Thomas D., and Carville
V. Earle, eds. Historical U.S. County Outline Map Collection, 1840–1980.
Baltimore: Department of Geography, University of Maryland (Baltimore County),
1984. A portfolio of redrawn federal maps; no supporting text or documentation.
Rohrbough, Malcolm J. Land Office
Business: Settlement and Administration of American Public Lands, 1789–1837.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1968.
Royce, Charles
C., comp. “Indian
Land Cessions in the United States.” Part 2 of Eighteenth Annual Report of
the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1896–1897. Washington, D.C., 1899. The
standard authority in its field; state maps detail all Indian land-cession
treaties with the federal government.
Sanders, Helen Fitzgerald. History
of Montana. 3 vols. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1913.
Sanders, James U., ed. Society of
Montana Pioneers: Constitution, Members, and Officers, with Portraits and Maps. N. p., 1899. Contains briefs histories and
maps of the counties, including W. W. de Lacy’s map of Montana Territory
(1865).
Scott, James W., and Roland L. De
Lorme. Historical Atlas of Washington. Norman: University of Oklahoma
Press, 1988.
Sealock, Richard B., Margaret M.
Sealock, and Margaret S. Powell. Bibliography of Place-Name Literature:
United States and Canada. 3d ed. Chicago: American Library Association,
1982.
Shaudys, Vincent K. Published
Maps of Montana: An Annotated Bibliography. Regional Study No. 9. Missoula:
Bureau of Business and Economic Research, Montana State University, 1958.
Sinko, Peggy Tuck. Guide to Local
and Family History at the Newberry Library. Salt Lake City: Ancestry
Publishing, 1987.
Stewart, Lowell O. Public Land
Survey: History, Instructions, Methods. 1935. Reprint. Minneapolis: Meyers
Printing Co., 1976.
Swindler, William F., ed. Sources
and Documents of United States Constitutions. 10 vols. Dobbs Ferry, N. Y.:
Oceana Publications, 1973–1979. The most complete and up-to-date compilation
for the states.
Taylor, Robert L., Milton J. Edie,
and Charles F. Gritzner. Montana in Maps: 1974. Bozeman: Big Sky Books,
Montana State University, 1974.
Territorial Papers of the United
States. Vols. 1–26
edited by Clarence E. Carter; vols. 27–28 edited by John P. Bloom. Washington,
D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1934–1975. Cited as Terr. Papers U.S.
Thorndale, William, and William
Dollarhide. Map Guide to the U.S. Federal Censuses, 1790–1920.
Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1987. An atlas of well-designed county
outline maps for each state, accompanied by a bibliography and an explanation
of methodology.
United States. Statutes at Large
of the United States of America, 1789–1873. 17 vols. Boston: Little, Brown,
1845–1874. Vols. 18–. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1875–.
Cited as U.S. Stat.
United States. Secretary of the
Interior. Laws and Regulations Relating To the Yellowstone National Park
Wyoming. Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office, 1908.
U.S. Census Bureau. “Significant Changes to Counties and County
Equivalent Entities: 1970–Present.” http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/ctychng.html
Van Zandt, Franklin K. Boundaries
of the United States and the Several States. Geological Survey Professional
Paper 909. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1976. The standard
compilation for its subject.
Washington Territory. Laws of the
Territory of Washington. 6th–11th sess. Olympia,
1858–1863. Title varies. The early session laws of Washington Territory. Cited
as Wash. Terr. Laws.
Williams, Gene F. Idaho
Territorial Voters Poll Lists 1863. Boise: Williams Printing, 1996.
Woody, Frank H. “Sketch of the Early
History of Western Montana.” Contributions to the Historical Society of
Montana 2 (1896):88–106.