[PDF] Contributions To The Historical Society Of Montana With Its Transactions Act Of Incorporation Constitution Ordinances Officers And Members eBook

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Excerpt from Contributions to the Historical Society of Montana, Vol. 1: With Its Transactions, Act of Incorporation, Constitution, Ordinances, Officers and Members The Historical Society of Montana was incorporated by an act of the Legislative Assembly, approved February 2, 1865. To it was confided the trust of accumulating information illustrative of the early history of the region of country embraced in what is now the Territory of Montana. The trust seemed, at first, a barren and thankless one. There is not, probably, in the United States a region of equal area about which so little information can be gleaned as that parallelogram along their northern border which contains the springs of the Columbia and the Missouri. In the discharge of the trust thus confided to the Society, it has sought to gather from this barren field such information as books would afford, and to acquire from the adventurers and early pioneers whatever of interest their memories had preserved. The Territory seems to have been just between the two lines of early travel across the continent. To the north, the fur-traders from Montreal, passing through Lake Superior to Lake Winnipeg, and thence up the Saskatchewan, across the Rocky Mountains, to the Flatbow river, proceeded down the Columbia. At a later day, but early in the present century, adventurous traders from St. Louis and New York, passing up the Platte and through the South Pass, crossed Green river to the Lewis Fork of the Columbia, and passed by Fort Hall down toward Astoria. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Release : 2017-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780260217769

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Excerpt from Contributions to the Historical Society of Montana, Vol. 2: With Its Transactions, Act of Incorporation, Constitution, Ordinances It is apparent that public intertst in the events of our early history has with the increasing prosperity of the country been greatly aug mented. The organization Of the Society of Pioneers and the reminis cences of the early times which with increasing frequency appear in our newspapers, demonstrate the increasing solicitude of our people to know of this conquest of Montana from savage life to the humanities and amenities Of our present civilization. We cannot attribute the increase of this thirst for local episode solely to the greater prosperity of the country. Interest in the signal events of a people always increases as they recede. The flight of the years corrects the perspective, sets each circumstance in orderly array and relieves it of that prosaic quality which familiarity breeds. The actors in those early days did not them selves appreciate how vast a result they were achieving. They builded better than they knew. Engaged in a concrete struggle with savage life and rugged nature, their eager competitions led them away from the philosophic. The heroic, the poetic and sentimental aspects of the strife, as such struggles always do. To them it was a contention for farms, for herds, for gold, for office and for the gratification too Often of mean am bitions; but time has crystalized it all into the founding Of a State, the planting of a civilization. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Transactions, Act of Incorporation, Constitution, Ordinances, Officers and members.

Author : Historical Society of Montana
Publisher : Legare Street Press
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Release : 2022-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781017946284

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Release : 2015-07-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781332007752

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Excerpt from Contributions to the Historical Society of Montana, Vol. 3: With Its Transactions, Officers and Members In accordance with the provisions of Section 2393, of the Political Code of Montana, the Trustees herewith present Volume III of "Contributions to the Historical Society of Montana"; with the modest hope that it will meet with as great favor as the former volumes. Four years have elapsed since the publication of Volume II, during which time, as a State, we have been making history rapidly. Towns in our midst have felt the disastrous effect of booms; enterprises of great importance started and carried to successful completion; projects, less meritorious perhaps, have failed; churches and schools established; new fraternal societies organized, older ones planning large schemes for the "Good of the Order." The proceedings of all of these bodies should have a place in the archives of the Society, if they are to become a part of future volumes of "Contributions" issued through the generous aid of the State Legislature. These years have witnessed the passing away to their long home of many of our early settlers. It is sad to contemplate the rapid decrease of the noble Pioneers who wrested from the savage our present homes, who gave us the reign of law and order, who established peace and prosperity on our midst, who laid the foundations of the political parties, discovered and developed our mines, who organized the schools and established the churches of which we are so justly proud. These are the characters, above all others, whose deeds and words should be preserved in the archives of the Historical Society. Biography is called the mother of History, and history is said also to be the biography of society. Before these Pioneers pass away, their biography, (whether it be as shown by their correspondence to public men on public affairs or their journals, or simply a sketch prepared properly by some one interested, or whether it be by all these means) should be given into the custody of the State for future use. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.