1876 A Record of the Stock Brands and Marks of Montana Territory Book

A facsimile of A Record of the Stock Brands and Marks of Montana Territory, published by authority at Helena in 1876 by Fisk Bros., Printers, Herald Building, Broadway. 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.

Compiled 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.

An essential reference for genealogists, ranch historians, and collectors of Montana and Western Americana.

46 pages. 6" x 9". Black and white. Paperback.

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