Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

This subseries primarily contains papers from Carpenter's time in the Colorado senate (1909-1913). The main subjects represented are agriculture and irrigation, with the Carpenter Reservoir Bill being prominent. Other legislative topics are included, as are some Republican party materials. Document types include legislation, speeches, and notes. Files are arranged alphabetically.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

This subseries primarily contains papers from Carpenter's time in the Colorado senate (1909-1913). The main subjects represented are agriculture and irrigation, with the Carpenter Reservoir Bill being prominent. Other legislative topics are included, as are some Republican party materials. Document types include legislation, speeches, and notes. Files are arranged alphabetically.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: This subseries holds the smaller categories of publications and reports that family members saved. These include agriculture, the Baca Land Grant, cattle, Colorado, Fort Morgan/Morgan County, Greeley/Weld County, Herbert Hoover, the New Mexico Military Institute, and religion as well as a miscellaneous category. There are also categories for Delph E. Carpenter, Donald A. Carpenter, and M. J. Hogarty, holding publications containing mention of them. Family bibles and hymnals are found in the...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: This subseries holds the smaller categories of publications and reports that family members saved. These include agriculture, the Baca Land Grant, cattle, Colorado, Fort Morgan/Morgan County, Greeley/Weld County, Herbert Hoover, the New Mexico Military Institute, and religion as well as a miscellaneous category. There are also categories for Delph E. Carpenter, Donald A. Carpenter, and M. J. Hogarty, holding publications containing mention of them. Family bibles and hymnals are found in the...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: This subseries contains Carpenter's correspondence found unfiled in the collection. As many of the same subjects are covered, the same Subseries 1 categories are utilized: cattle, compacts and rivers, legal, personal, and political. The only difference is here the personal category is split in two: "by person" and "by subject." Preference was to organize the personal correspondence by subject, but when a letter concerned several subjects or no subject in particular, it was grouped into...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: This subseries contains Carpenter's correspondence found unfiled in the collection. As many of the same subjects are covered, the same Subseries 1 categories are utilized: cattle, compacts and rivers, legal, personal, and political. The only difference is here the personal category is split in two: "by person" and "by subject." Preference was to organize the personal correspondence by subject, but when a letter concerned several subjects or no subject in particular, it was grouped into...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: This subseries contains Carpenter's correspondence found unfiled in the collection. As many of the same subjects are covered, the same Subseries 1 categories are utilized: cattle, compacts and rivers, legal, personal, and political. The only difference is here the personal category is split in two: "by person" and "by subject." Preference was to organize the personal correspondence by subject, but when a letter concerned several subjects or no subject in particular, it was grouped into...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: This subseries contains Carpenter's correspondence found unfiled in the collection. As many of the same subjects are covered, the same Subseries 1 categories are utilized: cattle, compacts and rivers, legal, personal, and political. The only difference is here the personal category is split in two: "by person" and "by subject." Preference was to organize the personal correspondence by subject, but when a letter concerned several subjects or no subject in particular, it was grouped into...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: This subseries contains Carpenter's correspondence found unfiled in the collection. As many of the same subjects are covered, the same Subseries 1 categories are utilized: cattle, compacts and rivers, legal, personal, and political. The only difference is here the personal category is split in two: "by person" and "by subject." Preference was to organize the personal correspondence by subject, but when a letter concerned several subjects or no subject in particular, it was grouped into...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: This subseries contains Carpenter's correspondence found unfiled in the collection. As many of the same subjects are covered, the same Subseries 1 categories are utilized: cattle, compacts and rivers, legal, personal, and political. The only difference is here the personal category is split in two: "by person" and "by subject." Preference was to organize the personal correspondence by subject, but when a letter concerned several subjects or no subject in particular, it was grouped into...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: This subseries represents the main focus of Carpenter's career: creating, negotiating, and promoting interstate river compacts. The materials are categorized by river and therein arranged alphabetically. The exception is compact drafts, which are arranged as chronologically as possible; often the drafts are undated and unnumbered, making determinations as to sequence difficult. The river compacts documented at length here are the Colorado, North Platte, Rio Grande, and South Platte; the...