Excerpt from Eighteenth Biennial Report of the Board of Trustees of the Historical Society of Montana, 1925-1926 This department regrets to report that during this period two of our worthy presidents have died. Mr. J. H. T. Ryman departed this life at Missoula, Montana, on June 1, 1926, and Mr. James T'. Stanford at Conrad, Montana on August 10, 1926. Both of these gentlemen were well known and very capable citizens of Montana who took great interest. In the affairs of the Historical Society. The Board of Trustees reiterates the statements made in the report of December 1, 1924 as to the crowded conditions in the present quarters in the state capitol building. The constantly increasing accumulation of government, state and historical libraries of other states reports, news paper files and donations of portrait paintings, photographs, manu scripts and other historical material donated by interested pioneers add to this over crowded condition, all of these must be catalogued, indexed and room provided for. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.