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The article discusses the significance of former Montana governor Forrest Anderson to the state's government. According to the article, Anderson was elected governor in 1968 and his administration consolidated several state bureaucratic boards, commissions, and agencies, and oversaw the drafting and approval of a new state constitution. The article also discusses Anderson's career in Montana government, his campaign tactics, and the process of revising the state constitution.

The article features the Lowe Printing Press Number 2, which was used to print the regular edition of the "Montana Post" newspaper in Montana Territory from August 1864 to June 1869. Topics include the topics covered by the newspaper like frontier vigilantism, territorial politics, and business, as well as its publishers like John Buchanan, Daniel Webster Tilton, and Benjamin R. Dittes.

The article presents an overview of the Montana Historical Society's collection of maps. Brief information is given about the Society's history, the career of cartographer Walter W. DeLacy who mapped the Territory of Montana in 1866, and the social significance of maps. Information is given about the "Exploring Montana's Past through Maps" exhibit which will open in November 2011. Some of the Historical Society's maps can be seen online in the Montana Memory Project digital archives at http://mhs. mt.gov/research/MTMemoryProj.asp.

The article reviews the television documentary motion picture "Butte, America," directed by Pam Roberts and written by Edwin Dobb and Eugene Corr.