This tale of two cities--Butte, Montana, and Chuquicamata, Chile--traces the relationship of capitalism and community across cultural, national, and geographic boundaries. Combining social history with ethnography, Janet Finn shows how the development of copper mining set in motion parallel processe[...]

The worst hard-rock mining disaster in American history began a half hour before midnight on June 8, 1917, when fire broke out in the North Butte Mining Companys Granite Mountain shaft. Sparked more than two thousand feet below ground, the fire spewed flames, smoke, and poisonous gas through a labyr[...]

From the stately Queen Anne mansions of the West End to the hastily constructed shanties of Cabbage Patch, Lost Butte, Montana, traces the city's history through its architectural heritage. The Grand Opera House, once graced by entertainers and cultural icons like Charlie Chaplin, Sarah Bernhardt, a[...]