Montana History Conferences and Various Public Programs— Bibliography This bibliography includes oral histories from the Montana Historical Society’s audio recordings of Montana History Conferences and Various Public Programs. Subjects range from women in politics to weddings. Where possible, audio format is noted. The collection is divided between oral histories that have been transcribed and those that have not. Where possible, length of typed transcription is noted. ___________________________________________________________________________ Transcribed: None. ___________________________________________________________________________ Not Transcribed (may include a typed summary): 2nd Annual Montana History Conference proceedings, 1975 October 23-25. (OH 114). Montana Historical Society Archives. 15 audio tapes (13 hr.) 18-page summary. The 2nd Annual Montana History Conference was held in Helena. Panel discussions address Montana agrarian radicalism; the role of women in politics; Senator Burton K. Wheeler; Indian reservation history; political changes in Montana since World War II; western literature; and the writing of local history. Speakers include Professor Richard Ruetten; author A. B. Guthrie; Governor Ted Schwinden; legislator Francis Bardanouve; and Professor Richard Etulain. 11th Annual Montana History Conference proceedings, 1984 October 25-27. (OH 1551). Montana Historical Society Archives. 17 audio tapes (17 hr.) 1-page summary. The 11th Annual Montana History Conference assembled in Lewistown. It included panels concerning farming; homesteading; women; the Taylor Grazing Act; cowboys; and ethnic groups, especially the Danes, Hutterites, Germans, Croatians, and Métis. 21st Annual Montana History Conference proceedings, 1994 October 13-15. (OH 1600). Montana Historical Society Archives. 17 audio tapes (16 hr., 20 min.) The 21st Annual Montana History Conference met in Red Lodge. Sessions address various topics including the state of the Montana Historical Society; Pryor Mountains archaeology; cowboy recollections; Red Lodge history; homesteading women; Native American activities; and area industry. 23rd Annual Montana History Conference proceedings, 1996. (OH 1765). Montana Historical Society Archives. 14 audio tapes (14 hrs.) The 23rd Annual Montana History Conference met in Butte, Montana. Sessions addressed topics including “Myth, Community and Survival in Butte and Anaconda” (Brian Shovers, Dale Martin, Patrick Malone); Butte ethnography (John Mihelich); Butte women in the 1920s (Mary Murphy); “Jacobs Brothers, Montana Windsmiths” (Robert Righter); radio broadcasting in Montana (Clair Krebsbach, Bill Knowles); architectural legacy of Anaconda (Kim Morrison); “Our Lady of the Rockies” (Pat Munday); women and community “company towns” (Janet Finn); mine tailings disposal (Fred Quivik); Anaconda Mining Company and the environment (Kent Curtis, Eugene Tidball); Lee Metcalf conservation activities (Rex Renk); Anaconda Company newspapers (John McNay); agricultural settlement promotions in Montana (Douglas Edwards); Montana in the world economy (Michael Malone); Granville Stuart (Carol O’Connor); Mary MacLane, Myron Brinig, and other Montana writers (Julia Watson, Carrie Johnson, Ron Fischer); women’s unions in Butte labor strikes (Janet Ore Whitney Williams, Marilyn Maney); and recreation in Butte including baseball and prostitution (Pete Dowling, James Scott, Howard Morris, Ellen Baumler). This bibliography was created for Women’s History Matters, a project of the Montana Historical Society, www.montanahistoricalsociety.org. Learn more: http://montanawomenshistory.org 2 24th Annual Montana History Conference proceedings, 1997. (OH 1773). Montana Historical Society Archives. 14 audio tapes (14 hrs.) Proceedings of the 1997 Montana History Conference included the state of the Montana Historical Society address; presentations on art history including rock art and ledger drawings (James Keyser); Blackfeet grass dancing traditions (Jennifer Waterston); artist Helen McAuslan (Gennie DeWeese); Ralph Olson and the Flathead Valley during the Depression (Megan Pepe); Chinese in Bozeman (Jennifer Dunn); Irish immigration (Mark Gibbons); Guy Weadick and the Calgary Stampede (Donna Livingstone); the autobiography of Red Cloud (R. Eli Paul); Johnny Grant memoirs (Lyndel Meikle); the Lemhi and Shoshone-Bannocks in Fort Hall and Idaho (Shirley Stephens, Marcia Montgomery, John Mann); Mike Mansfield (Donald Ritchie); capitol building paintings (Patricia M. Burnham); the Carlin hunting party (Dave Walter); Jacob Thorkelson (Jon Axline); snake oil salesmen (Lyndel Meikle); labor history, bison, and firefighting in Yellowstone National Park (Douglas Weber, Brit Fontenot, Tom Haynes); the 1972 Constitutional Convention; the future of historical research (Elliott West); Sisters of Providence, Missoula (Janice Willms, Todd Savitt); medicine of Blackfeet and Salish (William Farr); Connecticut investment in Montana gold mining (Jeffrey Safford); the Spring Hill Mine, Helena Mining District (John Koerth); and Virginia City (John Ellingsen). 29th Annual Montana History Conference, proceedings, 2002. (OH 2054). Montana Historical Society Archives. The 29th Annual Montana History Conference (2002) was held in Havre. Panels and presentations discussed Lewis and Clark on the Marias River (John Logan Allen); state of the Montana Historical Society (Arnold Olsen); “Montana Scholars discuss Northern Montana College, Eugenics, Environmental History” (James Hawkins, Jerry Frank, Brad Vandt); African American, Chinese, and South Asian communities in Montana and Alberta (Barbara Behan, Dudley Gardner); interpreting Native American historic sites (Alden Big Man Jr. and Curley Bear Wagner); women’s narratives (Sarah Carter, Mary Clearman Blew, Jodie Foley); Nez Perce War (Sandi McFarland, Jerome Greene, Paul Fees); Great Northern Railway employee stories (Joseph McGeswich, Herbert Goggins, Joe Cech, Tom Reese); Montana Tribal Scholars reservation life, alcohol and drugs on reservations, Small Robe Band of Blackfeet, and Catholicism (Joan Johnson, John Mitchell, Linda Juneau); medicine in Montana including St. Patrick’s Hospital, terminal patient home care, and epidemics in Montana (Herbert Swick, Todd Savitt, Dawn Nickel); cultural events and documents including Dawes Act, the Medicine Line, and last buffalo hunt (Jodi Rave, Beth Ladow, Heather Devine); women of literature in Montana (Mary Clearman Blew, Judy Blunt, Dierdre McNamer); Cree in Montana (Michel Hogue); and “Jerks in Montana History,” Havre sanitation, and William Cambell (Lyndel Meikle, Jon Axline, Dave Walter). 30th Annual Montana History Conference proceedings, 2003. (OH 2109). Montana Historical Society Archives. The topics discussed include women in Montana’s literary heritage (Mary Murphy, Ellen Baumler, Ripley Hugo); Montana war brides (Jodie Foley, Seena Kohl); Montana Historical Society photograph archives; military medicine (H. Schwick, D. Smith, and A. Sohn); dinosaurs in Montana (Jack Horner); and “Jerks in Montana History.” This bibliography was created for Women’s History Matters, a project of the Montana Historical Society, www.montanahistoricalsociety.org. Learn more: http://montanawomenshistory.org 3 33rd Annual Montana History Conference Proceedings, 2006. (OH 2221). Montana Historical Society Archives. 19 audio tapes. Tape 1: Montana Preservation Alliance (Joyce L. Mayer). Tape 2: Time and Place: The Year That Was at MHS and the Magic of the “Magic City” (Richard Sims). Tape 3: Nothing Plain About It: Clothing Styles of the Crow and Northern Cheyenne (Mardell Plain Feather, Vernon Sootkis). Tape 4: Showcasing Montana History Scholars: Caroline McGill Mining City Doctor, Border Wars: A Brief History of Montana’s Shared Stewardship of the Northern Yellowstone Elk Herd, Crossroads of Change in Western Montana A. B. Hammond and Chief Charlot (Connie Staudohar, Wendy M. Zirngibl, Greg Gordon). Tape 5: Getting the News to You (Jay Kohn, Virginia Smith, Bob McCann Zeeck, Vic Miller). Tape 6: Browsing Through the Morgue: A Sideways Look at the History of Montana Journalism (Dennis Swibold). Tape 7: Looking for More Work: Ranch Women with a Vision, Isabelle Johnson (Kristi Hager, Donna Forbes, Gordon McConnell). Tape 8: Showcasing Montana Tribal College History Scholars, Battle of the Little Big Horn (Patrick J. Hill, Dusty Cummins). Tape 9: Coalbed Methane Development and Cultural Resource Preservation: A Round Table Discussion (Chere Jiusto, David Breisch, Bruce Williams, Ray Mugley). Tape 10: Rabies in Our Backyard: The History of Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention (Volney Steele, Pierce Mullen, Rob Myers). Tape 11: Canvassing the West: Cowboys as Chroniclers: Memories of Grandpa The Life and History of J. K. Ralston, Will James, and the Tailbone Factor (A’Lisa Scott, Allan Jensen). Tape 12 Roads to Roam: Tourism and Politics in the Yellowstone Valley: The Impact of the Yellowstone Trail on the Yellowstone River Valley (Janene Caywood, John and Alice Ridge). Tape 13: Rediscovering the Crops: Reflections on the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial (William L. Lange). Tape 14: Little Bear’s Determination to Find a Home, 1885-1916 (Dr. David Miller). Tape 15: Jerks in Montana History: Mr. Montana Granville Stuart and His Evil Destiny; The Swan Massacre and the Ecology of Violence; Treaty Rights, Fire and a Murderous Jerk (Rich Aarstad, Thompson Smith). Tape 16: Developing Views: Our Place (Lory Morrow, Becca Kohl). 34th Annual Montana History Conference Proceedings, 2007. 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