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Continuation of Big Four Brand Book. Contains Brands of Cattle and Horses of the Range District of North and South Dakota, Montana, and Wyoming (where the water runs East), Northeast Colorado and Nebraska. The only Brand Book where the Ear Marks are shown in the Cut of Cattle, and the only one that will receive any or all Brands.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a paperback facsimile copy of the original book published in 1900 by the Little Gem Brand Book Co. out of Kansas City. 194 pages in black and white, 6” x 9”.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncludes index of brands and numerous cattle illustrations, also packed with advertisements. Unlike other brand books of the time, the Little Gem was \"controlled by no Association or State,\" making it a private commercial venture that competed with the association-published brand books. 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This reprint reproduces the complete original — cover, title page, the certification of I. R. Alden, Clerk of the Supreme Court and ex-officio Recorder of Brands, every page of recorded brands, and the alphabetical index of owners — printed in black and white from scans of the Montana State Library copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCompiled in the last years before the great open-range boom, the register preserves the brands and earmarks recorded with the Territory through December 15, 1875. Each entry gives the owner's name, county, the brand device and its placement on the animal, and the vents and ear marks used to transfer or cancel it — spades, tomahawks, ox yokes, horse's heads, shamrocks, monograms, and dozens of letter and numeral brands, described exactly as filed. The entries span Montana's pioneer stock country: Lewis and Clarke, Madison, Beaverhead, Gallatin, Jefferson, Meagher, Deer Lodge, and Missoula counties, along with entries from Fort Shaw, Camp Baker, and the Blackfoot Agency. For anyone tracing a Montana ranching family, researching a territorial-era brand, or studying the cattle frontier before the boom of the 1880s, this is the primary record.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn essential reference for genealogists, ranch historians, and collectors of Montana and Western Americana.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e46 pages. 6\" x 9\". Black and white. 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It covers the whole city of 15,000 people, from the stores, hotels and theatres of Montana Avenue and First and Second Avenues North, the County Court House and the Union Depot, through the Northern Pacific and Great Northern freight yards, wholesale houses and implement warehouses, to the Polytechnic Institute, the sugar factory and power plants and the residential streets of the North Side and the South Side.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe thirty-seven numbered map sheets work block by block from the stores, banks, hotels and theatres along Montana Avenue, Minnesota Avenue, First, Second and Third Avenues North, Twenty-seventh Street and Twenty-eighth Street - the Yellowstone County Court House and Jail, the City Hall, the Post Office, the Parmly Billings Public Library, the Chamber of Commerce, the Masonic Temple, Coliseum Hall and Industrial Hall, the Babcock and Acme theatres, the Grant, Elk, Northern and Commercial hotels, the Cottage Inn, the Boykin House, the Orpheum lodgings, the Y. 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Every building is shown to scale and color-coded for construction (yellow for frame, pink for brick, blue for stone), with heights, uses, windows, party walls, hydrants, water mains and fire stations all marked. The index lists every street and every named business, church, school, hotel, mill and works with the sheet it appears on, and the key map places the colored sheet grid over the whole city.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition is an unabridged facsimile republication of the atlas: the combined title, key map and index sheet and the thirty-seven numbered map sheets that follow it. Ideal for local historians, genealogists, architects, preservationists and anyone tracing a Billings address back to 1912.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e40 pages. 8.5\" x 11\". Full color. 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The entire atlas is reproduced in color: all 99 numbered street maps surveyed at 50 feet to an inch, the city-wide key map, the surveyors' report on the city's waterworks and fire department, the full street index, and a block index that locates any of Butte's nearly one thousand numbered blocks by sheet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the turn of the century Butte was the copper capital of the world — a mining city of 75,000 spread across the richest hill on earth — and the Sanborn surveyors mapped all of it: the uptown blocks along Broadway, Main, Park, and Granite Streets, the mine yards and hoisting works threaded through the neighborhoods (the index names dozens, from the Anaconda Copper Mining Company's works to the Gray Rock and the Wake-up Jim), the smelters and reduction works along Silver Bow Creek, and the outlying communities of Walkerville, Centerville, Meaderville, and South Butte. Every building appears with its footprint, construction, story height, and address — the Grand Opera House, St. James Hospital, the breweries, the boarding houses and miners' cottages, the Butte, Anaconda \u0026amp; Pacific rail yards, even the race track — with the great mining companies of the Boston \u0026amp; Montana and Butte \u0026amp; Boston era fixed in place at their peak.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor anyone researching a Butte property, the Sanborn atlas is the definitive record of what stood on a lot a century ago. An essential reference for genealogists, house historians, and collectors of Butte, Montana, and Western mining history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e104 pages. 8.5\" x 11\". Full color. 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