Author: Writers Project of Montana
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2023-12-12
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 1493082175
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Copper Camp is a Montana classic. First published in 1943 and long out of print, Copper Camp is available again, bigger and better than ever with 25 new historical photos chosen specifically for this edition. Copper Camp contains hundreds of brawling, bawdy, over-the-top, laugh-out-loud stories about Butte during the height of the copper mining in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Each story is told with keen wit, love, and appreciation for the world’s greatest copper camp and the people who lived, loved, played, and worked there. Writers for the Works Projects Administration compiled the stories. Their aim was to reveal “the wealth of human interest held within the folds of the ‘richest hill on earth.’ Instead of the Copper Kings, here are the kids and characters, ministers, miners, mothers, girls from the line, bankers, and barkeeps. Of such stuff as strikes, parades, politics and people – above all, of rawboned, lively, honest-to-God people – is a mining camp composed; and Butte, in the opinion of many experts, if THE mining camp. Copper Camp has been described as “a roaring human document that is as strong, and important as the town of Butte, Montana.” If you want to understand Butte, then read this book. If you want to experience the sheer joy of a wonderful book that takes you to a totally different time and place, then Copper Camp is for you, too.
Author: Harry Campbell Freeman
Publisher:
Published: 1900
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Michael P. Malone
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2012-04-01
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780295802190
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published in 1981, The Battle for Butte has remained the best treatment of the influence of copper in the political history of Montana. "Fine history: rich in detail, full of finely drawn people, masterfully clear where the subject matter is most complex, constructed to preserve something of the tone and atmosphere of the age."-American Historical Review
Author: Marian Templeton Place
Publisher:
Published: 1961
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The connivings of the money-mad and power-and mining "kings" are related in this history of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Grades 5-8.
Author: Richard S. Wheeler
Publisher: Forge Books
Published: 2011-12-06
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 1429986263
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this captivating historical novel, six-time Spur Award winner Richard S. Wheeler turns his storyteller's eye to a clash of towering ambitions in the American West, when the Copper Kings of Butte, Montana, wrestled each other for control of both the "richest hill on earth" and Montana's fledgling government. The city of Butte looks like a cancerous mélange of smoky mine boilers and rudely constructed sheds when newspaperman John Fellowes Hall arrives on a cold spring day in 1892. Butte may be ugly, but it's the place to get rich. It's also a city full of stories—perfect for a journalist looking to make a name for himself. As an employee of mining titan William Andrews Clark, Hall becomes a part of the best story of them all: the fight among the Copper Kings. Butte's three founding fathers were remarkable men with little in common other than ambition. Marcus Daly, a humble Irish immigrant, led the Anaconda Copper Mining Company. His political rival, the formidable William Andrews Clark, a brilliant but vain businessman, bought himself a United States Senate seat. And Augustus Heinze tried to steal the mines, using lawyers and bribed judges, only to be crushed by the Rockefellers. The Richest Hill on Earth captures their struggle as well as the stories of the ordinary people—the miners, their wives and children, the journalists, and even the psychics—trying to make their fortunes in the rapidly-changing West. The Richest Hill of Earth is a Kirkus Reviews Best of 2011 Historical Fiction title. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author: C. B. Glasscock
Publisher: Riverbend Pub
Published: 2002-07
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781931832212
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The famous account of the greedy battles between the three Copper Kings of Butte, Montana.
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Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780738575476
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The story of Butte is the story of underground mining. In the early part of the 1900s, Butte had more than 100,000 people and 400 mines in operation. Open-pit surface mining has replaced underground operations, and only a handful of the iconic gallus or head frames are standing today. This collection of vintage imagery showcases the people, machinery, processes, and technology in the mines that comprised Butte Hill.
Author: Harry Campbell Freeman
Publisher:
Published: 1900
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780870041273
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