Dashiell Hammett, a former Pinkerton strikebreaker-turned-writer, modeled the fictional town of Poisonville on Butte ... of a decade-old essay, “The Pit,” by Montana writer Nathaniel Miller ...

Butte of course nests near the Berkeley Pit, described by writer Edwin Dobb as a “bitter pool” of “corrosive waters.” The Pit – some of us old natives ... Berm, Montana Pole and Treating ...

Montana's mining history is ... But for a better look at the Old West, it's best to head to the state's first major industrial city: Butte. Sitting right smack dab between the unmatched beauty ...

Residents in Butte, Montana may be more used to seeing bison, but an escaped circus elephant was a surprise when she was captured on video walking through the town streets. Viola, the 58-year-old ...

To see the best of Butte, Montana, all Joyce O’Bill has to do ... “I started 31 years ago, and kept going and going. I’m the old one there,” she says. “When we started, it was only ...

They feared that the productions could worsen a rise in prices the city had seen after a wave of remote workers moved to Montana ... old wood furniture. The Madrazos, who both grew up in Butte ...