RESOURCES USED

Below is a list of the various sources which we consulted during our research into the life and times of Charlie Conrad. It will be updated as necessary as research continues.  (9/17/22)

 ARCHIVES & LIBRARIES 

Conrad Mansion Museum. Kalispell, Montana.

Cutter & Malmgren Records (Ms 49), Eastern Washington State Historical Society/ Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, Spokane, WA.

Drouin Collection, Institut Généalogique Drouin. Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Flathead County Records Preservation Dept., Kalispell, Montana.

Flathead County Library, Kalispell, Montana

Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

James J. Hill Papers, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, Minnesota.

Jean Conrad Rowe Collection,  Johanna & Richard L. Hardesty archives, Hungry Horse, Montana.

Jesuit Archive in Canada, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Joel F. Overholser Historical Research Center and Schwinden Library, Fort Benton, Montana.

Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. (vast amount of information, including NWMP Personnel Records, Indian contracts, Treaty 7, etc.).

Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, K. Ross Toole Archives, University of Montana, Missoula. Collection Mss185, Conrad, Campbell and Stanford Family Papers, 1818-1968. Correspondence, documents, photos.

Missionary Oblates, Grandin Archives at the Provincial Archives of Alberta. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Montana Historical Society, Helena, Montana (MHS). Correspondence, documents.

BOOKS, JOURNAL ARTICLES & MSS

[Anon.] Proceedings and Debates of the Constitutional Convention Held in the City of Helena, Montana, July 4th, 1889, August 17th, 1889.  Helena: State Publishing Co., 1921.

[Anon.] Progressive Men of the State of Montana. Chicago: Bowen, [n. d., but 1902].

Ashby, Shirley Carter.  Shirley Carter Ashby papers, 1867-1889. Collection SC283. Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, K. Ross Toole Archives, University of Montana, Missoula.

Brown, Peter A. Mosby’s Fighting Parson: The Life and Times of Sam Chapman. Westminster, MD: Willbart Books, 2001.

Christiansen, Albert. The Conrad Buffalo Ranch : a Colorful and Far-Reaching Moment in Flathead Valley History. Bigfork, MT: Albert Christiansen, 1991.

Corbin, Annalies. The Life and Times of the Steamboat Red Cloud.  College Station: Texas A & M University Press, [2006].

Hale, Laura Virginia. Four Valiant Years in the Lower Shenandoah Valley 1861-1865, Front Royal, VA: Hathaway, 1986. 4th edition.

Holterman, Jack. King of the High Missouri, [Helena and Billings: Falcon Press, 1987].

Hughes, Katherine. Father Lacombe, the Black-Robe Voyageur. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, [1920].

Johns, Sam E. The Pioneers. Vast collection of Flathead Valley material compiled by the late Mr. Johns and bound into 10 volumes. Unpublished. The only two copies in existence are located at Flathead County Library, Kalispell.

Keen, Hugh C. 43rd Battalion, Virginia Cavalry, Mosby's Command. Lynchburg, Va. : H.E. Howard, Inc., [1993]. 

Klassen, Henry Cornelius. Eye on the future: business people in Calgary and the Bow Valley, 1870-1900. Calgary: Univ. Alberta Press, 2002. 496 pp. Chapter 2 is about the Conrads & I. G. Baker & Co., but chaps. 1 & 3 are also pertinent.

______.  "The Conrads in the Alberta Cattle Business, 1875-1911." Agricultural History, Vol. 64, No. 3 (Summer, 1990), pp. 31-59 (29 pages). Published by: Duke University Press.

______.   "Shaping the Growth of the Montana Economy: T. C. Power & Bro. and the Canadian Trade." Great Plains Quarterly 11: 3 (Summer 1991): 166-180. Published by Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

______.  "T. C. Power & Bro.: The Rise of a Small Western Department Story, 1870-1902." Business History Review 66 (Winter 1992): 671-722. Published by  Cambridge University Press for Harvard Business School.

______.  "The Early Growth of the Conrad Banking Enterprise in Montana, 1880-1914. Great Plains Quarterly 17: 1 (Winter, 1997): 49-62. Published by Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

[Leeson, Michael]. History of Montana, 1735-1885. Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1885.

McDougall, John. On Western Trails in the Early Seventies. Toronto: William Briggs, 1911.

Miller, Joaquin. An Illustrated History of the State of Montana. Chicago: Lewis Publ. Co., 1894, pg. 510-511.

[Monteiro, Aristide]. War Reminiscences by the Surgeon of Mosby’s Command. Richmond: [self-published], 1890.

Morris, Alexander. The Treaties of Canada With the Indians of Manitoba and the Northwest Territories Including the Negotiations on Which They Were Based and Other Information Relating Thereto.  Toronto: Willing & Williamson, [1880]. Source for Treaty 7.

Mosby, John S.  Ed. Charles Wells Russel. The Memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby. Boston: Little, Brown, 1917.

Murphy, James E. Half Interest in a Silver Dollar: The Saga of Charles E. Conrad.  Missoula: Mountain Press, [1988].  Though seriously flawed, this is still useful if one is careful. 

Oldenburg, Charles (1862-1944). The Story of My Life. Unpublished. Copy of MS in collection of Records Preservation Dept., Flathead county.

Overholser, Joel. Fort Benton World's Innermost Port. Fort Benton, MT: Joel Overholser, [1987].

Schultz, James Willard.  Blackfeet and Buffalo. Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma, 1982.

Sharp, Paul F.  Whoop-Up Country. Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma, [1973].

[Smith, Hoke]. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, Transmitting an Agreement Made and Concluded September 26, 1895, With the Indians of the Blackfeet Reservation, Montana, by William C. Pollock, George Bird Grinnell, and Walter M. Clements, Commissioners Appointed Under the Provisions Contained in the Indian Appropriation Act of March 2, 1895.  54th Congress, 1st Session, Senate Document No. 118. Washington: USGPO, 1896.  The primary original source for the Ceded Strip negotiations.

Storke, Elliot G, Assisted by Jos H. Smith.  “History of Sterling, New York” in  .  History of Cayuga County, New York. Syracuse, New York: D. Mason & Co., 1879

Wert, Jeffrey D. Mosby's Rangers. NY: Simon & Schuster, [1990].

Williamson, James J. Mosby’s Rangers: A Record of the Operations of the Forty-Third Battalion Virginia Cavalry, etc.  NY: Ralph B. Kenyon, 1896.

PERIODICALS

Montana, the Magazine of Western History. Montana Historical Society, Helena, MT.

The Press, Helena, MT (1902).

Weekly Herald, Helena, Mont. Terr./State. (defunct)

Daily Independent, Helena, Mont. Terr./State.

Benton Weekly Record, Ft. Benton, Mont. Terr. (defunct)

Le Patrie, Montreal, Quebec (1905), French language paper.

River Press, Ft. Benton, Montana.

The Globe, Toronto, Quebec.

Tri-Weekly Tribune, Bismarck, Dakota Territory.

INTERNET RESOURCES CITED

http://geocitiessites.com/biosterlingny.htm

MISCELLANEOUS RECORDS

U. S. Census records, various. Census records are cited individually as required.