Theses and Dissertations at Montana State University (MSU)
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Item Geographic perspectives on state-directed heritage production in Twentieth-Century Montana(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Letters & Science, 2019) Briwa, Robert Merrill; Chairperson, Graduate Committee: William Wyckoff; William Wyckoff was a co-author of the article, 'Making heritage through Montana's official state highway maps, 1914-2000' in the journal 'Geographical review' which is contained within this thesis.Heritage produces deeply entrenched understandings about places across a range of geographic scales. Heritage is a deliberate framing of identity, actively constructed to promote ties binding history to place. This research interrogates the intersections of heritage, landscape, and state government in twentieth-century Montana. It examines how selected Montana state institutions produced heritage. The Montana Department of Transportation (MDoT), Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks (FWP), and the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) direct heritage production through numerous practices, including cartography (MDoT), state park management (FWP), and historic preservation (SHPO). This dissertation draws from conceptual frameworks of place identity and heritage and employs qualitative methods--principally archival research and document analysis--to examine how these state institutions produce Montana heritage. Between 1914 and 2000, the MDoT used its highway map program to anchor Montana heritage around five themes: territorial identity, mythic west, natural wealth, outdoor recreation, and hospitality. Montana's state park system, particularly Bannack State Park, demonstrates federal and local influences in evolving state visions of heritage at a Montana ghost town. National narratives centered on Euro-American westering experiences evolved to a more culturally inclusive heritage at Bannack. Montana's historic preservation movement under the direction of the SHPO shows a trend towards a decentralized planning model that increasingly emphasizes preservation outcomes grounded in regional and more inclusive perspectives. In Montana's urban landscapes, however, local contexts and generative forces weaken state-directed preservation. These case studies offer six common characteristics of state-directed heritage production in the American West. 1) States shape heritage production in a variety of ways and these diverse institutional drivers evolve over time. 2) State-directed heritage production reflects an evolving dynamic existing across institutional and geographic scales. 3) Key individuals matter in heritage production and they have the ability to shape long-term narratives of state-produced heritage. 4) Sufficient funding from state and federal sources consolidates states' abilities to produce heritage, while insufficient funding from state and federal sources weakens states' abilities to produce heritage. 5) The evolving content of heritage production reflects changing cultural values and related political mandates. 6) State-directed heritage in Montana relies on dispersed heritage governance.Item Geology of the NW 15-minute Ural Quadrangle, Lincoln Co., Montana(Montana State University - Bozeman, 1961) Shelden, Arthur W.Item The basalts of Yellowstone Valley, southwestern Montana(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Letters & Science, 1967) Bush, John HaroldItem Surficial geology of a part of the northeast flank of the Bridger Range, Montana(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Letters & Science, 1976) Schrunk, Verne KeithItem The geology and geothermal potential of the upper Madison Valley between Wolf Creek and the Missouri Flats, Madison County, Montana(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Letters & Science, 1976) Weinheimer, Gerald JosephItem Geology of a part of the north end of the Gallatin Range, Gallatin County, Montana(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Letters & Science, 1966) Tysdal, Russell GeneItem A survey of earth science courses as a discipline in Montana secondary schools(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Letters & Science, 1970) Mackin, Richard LelandItem Cenozoic geomorphic history relating to Lewis and Clark Caverns, Montana(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Letters & Science, 1979) Aram, Richard BruceItem Geology of the Emigrant Peak intrusive complex, Park County, Montana(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Letters & Science, 1965) Basler, Albert L.Item The occurrence and timing of gold mineralization at the Red Pine Mine, western Tobacco Root Mountains, southwestern Montana(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Letters & Science, 1987) Kinley, Teresa MayThe Red Pine mine is located in Archean metasediments in the Sheridan mining district of the western Tobacco Root Mountains. The mine is developed in a fissure vein that occurs in marble and along the contact between marble and quartzofeldspathic gneiss. The present study broadens the knowledge of gold mineralization in the range. It describes ore and gangue minerals and establishes their paragenetic sequence. The study also interprets the conditions and timing of ore emplacement and the sources of ore metals and fluids. Two principal periods of mineralization and a minor period of secondary alteration are evident in the deposit. Moreover, textures show that multiple episodes of fracturing and brecciation accompanied the mineralization. Gold is present primarily in the first period of mineralization as discrete grains in fractures in pyrite or on the borders of brecciated pyrite. It is also found as minute inclusions and open-space fillings within pyrite. Gold is also associated with milky quartz, bismuthinite, and, less commonly, with carbonate, chalcopyrite, and tetrahedrite. Period I mineralization, recognized by milky quartz, contains pyrite, bismuthinite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite, and silver-bearing tetrahedrite. Trace amounts of pyrrhotite have been noted with pyrite and chalcopyrite. A major episode of brecciation separates Period 1 from Period 2. Gangue mineralization predominates in Period 2 with the deposition of graphite, white mica, dark gray microcrystalline quartz, calcite, and minor amounts of pyrite and chalcedony. Some gold is found along fractures in milky quartz that are filled with graphite and mica. Gold is also attached to graphite in these fractures. Goethite, djurleite, malachite, and minor covellite occur ' as sulfide alteration products. Interpretations of timing and pressure-temperature conditions of ore emplacement are made from mineralogy, textures, paragenetic sequence, and geologic relations observed at the mine. A mesothermal to hypothermal temperature (200° to 500° C) of deposition at pressures no greater than 2 kilobars is indicated by field relations and sulfide paragenesis. Ore deposition is interpreted as hydrothermal and as related to the Tobacco Root batholith or an associated igneous body. This relationship suggests a Late Cretaceous to early Tertiary age for the deposit.