Item: O.P. Balgord Papers, 1944-1962
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Finding Aid Title: O.P. Balgord Papers, 1944-1962
Finding Aid Collection Number: 1131
Date Range of Collection: 1944-1962
Creator of Materials: Balgord, O. P. (Oscar Peter), 1885-1974
Content Description: The Balgord papers consist of letters, speeches, press releases, clippings, and legislative memoranda mostly dealing with Montana water policy and Balgord's involvement with related legislation. Particularly prominent are documents discussing the Deadman's Basin Project, the Montana legislature's hearing on water conservation, and three telegrams from United States Senator Burton K. Wheeler. The documents have been arbitrarily arranged in subject folders created either by Balgord or Robert Dunbar, the person to whom Balgord gave the material before its donation to Montana State University. Sometime in the 1970s MSU library personnel calendared the contents of the folders and that listing has been preserved as written.
Finding Aid URL: http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv30728
Keywords: water conservation, law and legislation, montana, water-supply, government policy
Subjects: Montana and Histories of the American West The People of Montana
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