Eighty miles west of Bozeman, copper-mining BUTTE is bunched on a steep, almost treeless hillside where massive black headframes of long-abandoned pits soar up among paint-bare homes, stark gray business premises, and a ring of surface workings and dirty-yellow slag heaps. It's an oddly compelling landscape, best appreciated at dusk, when the golden pink light casts a glow on the mine-scoured hillsides, and the old neon signs illuminate uptown's historic brick buildings. Exploration of this friendly, atmospheric town soon reveals a community rich in ethnic and trade union culture. Among … more »
There's gold in them thar hills!; That's what started the lure to Butte... more »
The people of Butte are split between really horrible people and really kind... more »
Bert Mooney Silver Bow County has 27 flights departing per week for short... more »
When Butte was a rip-roaring copper town, there were two things to do--work... more »
Butte (pop. 33,000) is a city built upon the spoils of mid-1800s gold strikes... more »
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