Robert G. Dunbar papers, 1930-1986.

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Robert G. Dunbar papers, 1930-1986.

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Includes research notes, term papers, newspaper clippings, brochures, maps, copies of articles, lecture notes, syllabi, lecture outlines, bibliographies, and collected subject files resulting from personal history courses taken and history courses taught during Dunbar's career; research files identified with publications; "Washington the Farmer," "History of Agriculture," "The Farmer and the American Way," "The Economic Development of the Gallatin Valley," "The Initiation of the McNary-Haugen Movement in Montana and the Pacific Northwest," and "Forging New Rights in Western Waters," to speeches, talks, and presentations having topics of pre-World War II conditions, the United Nations and the USDA, and to agricultural history including agricultural organizations; files associated with Dunbar's career at Montana State University, including his role as a member of the Curriculum and Instruction Committee, the director for the Center for Inter-Cultural Affairs, and the founder of the International Studies Center, and to the establishment of a Peace Corp program (Ecuador/Heifer) and to the International Farm Youth Exchange program; files relating to the Great Plains Foundation, the Montana Farmers' Union, and the Agricultural History Society; and lists of books, articles, and reviews authored by Dunbar, copies of some of the articles, a file on the Dead Sea Scrolls, a set of personal and professional correspondence (with some enclosures) chronologically arranged, personal correspondence and loose papers, and personal ephemera.

5 reels of microfilm.

Montana State University (Bozeman, Mont.). Library

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Montana State University (Bozeman, Mont.). Library

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