Montana State University Archives and Special Collections

The archives is on the second floor of the Renne Library on the Montana State University-Bozeman campus and consists of materials relating to the history of the American West, trout and salmonids, the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and other topics.

Merrill G. Burlingame and Minnie Paugh were instrumental to the creation and development of the archive, establishing a solid foundation of research and collection of regionally important materials.

Paugh also generated a collection of oral histories, consisting of notes, tapes, interviews, photographs, and historical ephemera.

[3][4] Paugh's work is housed at the Montana State University Archives and Special Collections, including books, unpublished materials, and family histories.

[5][6] Similarly, Merrill G. Burlingame (1901–1994) was a prolific researcher and historian who published numerous works essential to the development of the archive.