Author: Harry Cass FreemanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Butte (Mont.)
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
A Brief History of Butte, Montana
Author: Harry Cass FreemanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Butte (Mont.)
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
A Brief History of Butte, Montana
Author: Harry Campbell FreemanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Butte (Mont.)
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Lost Butte, Montana
Author: Richard I. GibsonPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1614238197
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
From the stately Queen Anne mansions of the West Side to the hastily constructed shanties of Cabbage Patch, Lost Butte, Montana traces the citys history through its architectural heritage. This book includes such highlights as the Grand Opera House, once graced by entertainers and cultural icons like Charlie Chaplin, Sarah Bernhardt and Mark Twain; the infamous brothels protested by reformer Carrie Nation, wielding her hatchet and sharp tongue; and the Columbia Gardens, built by copper king William Clark as a respite from the smoke and toil of the mines and later destroyed by fire. Through the stories of these structures, lost to the march of time and urban renewal, historian Richard Gibson recalls the boom and bust of Butte, once a mining metropolis and now part of the largest National Historic Landmark District.
A Brief History of Butte, Montana, the World's Greatest Mining Camp; Including a Story of the Extraction and Treatment of Ores from Its Gigantic Coppe
Author: Harry Campbell FreemanPublisher:
ISBN: 9781297682377
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Copper Camp
Author: Writers Project of MontanaPublisher: Riverbend
ISBN: 9781931832045
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Stories about life in Butte during its fabulous mining heyday.
Copper Chorus
Author: Dennis L. SwiboldPublisher: Montana Historical Society
ISBN: 9780975919606
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
This is the first book devoted to Montana's long history of industrial newspaper ownership and the consequences for democracy. The work also reveals the costs paid by owners and their journalists, whose credibility eroded as their increasingly constricted newspapers lapsed into ambivalence and indifference. The story offers a timeless study of the conflict between commerce and the notion of a free and independent press.
Anaconda, Montana
Author: Patrick F. MorrisPublisher: Swann Publishing
ISBN: 9780965720922
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Fire and Brimstone
Author: Michael PunkePublisher: Hachette Books
ISBN: 1401305717
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, The Revenant -- basis for the award-winning motion picture starring Leonardo DiCaprio -- tells the remarkable story of the worst hard-rock mining disaster in American history. A half-hour before midnight on June 8, 1917, a fire broke out in the North Butte Mining Company's Granite Mountain shaft. Sparked more than two thousand feet below ground, the fire spewed flames, smoke, and poisonous gas through a labyrinth of underground tunnels. Within an hour, more than four hundred men would be locked in a battle to survive. Within three days, one hundred and sixty-four of them would be dead. Fire and Brimstone recounts the remarkable stories of both the men below ground and their families above, focusing on two groups of miners who made the incredible decision to entomb themselves to escape the gas. While the disaster is compelling in its own right, Fire and Brimstone also tells a far broader story striking in its contemporary relevance. Butte, Montana, on the eve of the North Butte disaster, was a volatile jumble of antiwar protest, an abusive corporate master, seething labor unrest, divisive ethnic tension, and radicalism both left and right. It was a powder keg lacking only a spark, and the mine fire would ignite strikes, murder, ethnic and political witch hunts, occupation by federal troops, and ultimately a battle over presidential power.
A Brief History of Butte, Montana
Author: Harry Campbell FreemanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Butte (Mont.)
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Mining Childhood
Author: Janet L. FinnPublisher: Farcountry Press
ISBN: 9780980129250
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Mining Childhood offers a fresh perspective on Montana history. Drawing from a broad range of archival materials and oral histories, the book offers a child’s-eye view of key events in Butte’s history and considers how social, political, and economic forces shaping life in Butte left their marks on children. With its rich stories, the book captures children’s experiences of school, play, and work by exploring their joys and miseries, their keen impressions of life in Butte, and the varied lessons learned. These stories illuminate the meaning and purpose of mining life in Butte: people came in search of a better life for themselves, and they stayed and struggled in order to build a better life for their sons and daughters—living with the hardships and dangers of mining life so that their children might have a life beyond mining. Children were, quite simply, Butte’s reason to be.