Augustus R. Barrows (July 30, 1838 – December 20, 1885) was an American lumberman, rancher, and pioneer settler of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Montana.
He served as speaker of the Assembly during his term as part of a negotiated coalition with the Democratic caucus.
In August 1864, Barrows volunteered for service in the American Civil War and was enrolled as a private in Company H of the 11th Minnesota Infantry Regiment.
After losing the Congressional election, Barrows (who had suffered financial reverses in the real estate which constituted most of his wealth) organized a group of colonists who arrived in Martinsdale, Montana (a train stop on the main line of the Milwaukee Road), in June 1879.
He built a stage stop hotel, saloon and general store on the stagecoach route, and moved there himself in 1881, becoming (with his family) among the first permanent white settlers of the Judith Basin.
The Barrows were the parents of four children: John R.; Mary, who died at two years of age; Olive; and Clarence H.[5] John, who became a lawyer in San Diego, California, later wrote a memoir of his family's life there titled U-Bet: A Greenhorn in Old Montana (1934; reprinted in 1990) which was reviewed in The New York Times as "dramatic and colorful."