Six tourists wearing hard hats and heavy overalls sit, cramped up in a narrow mineshaft, with barely enough space to kneel. The local tour guide pulls out a disposable lighter, ignites a bright green ...
No city in Montana captures the imagination like Butte. The Mining City s rollicking history of boom times and bust and diverse ethnic culture has plenty to stoke years of contemplation. A newly ...
The Mining City Astronomy Club meets once a month at the Butte Public Library. This group is led by Joe Witherspoon of Cottontail Observatory. The next meeting will be held at the library on Jan. 16 ...
The Marchesseau and Valiton Block on the northeast corner of Granite and Main was better known as the Beaver Block for the huge copper and concrete beaver gracing its parapet. It was built in 1890 as ...