Lost Butte, Montana, a book by Richard I. Gibson, is in stores and museum gift shops around Butte. Or order from the publisher. It's also in E-book formats at all the usual places. And read an interview with Gibson, here, and on KXLF here. The Facebook page has many historic photos of Butte, and the Butte-Anaconda NHLD project showcases many historic buildings. Location-oriented posts can be found on HistoryPin. On Mondays beginning in January 2016, look for Gibson's "Mining City History" column in the Montana Standard. Many of these blog posts have been converted to podcast episodes, available at KBMF.


Butte History Events

2014

June 13 - Miner's Union Day

June 14 - showing of Brothers on the Line, a film documenting the legacy of the Reuther brothers. At Grand Hotel (124 W. Broadway), time TBA. The Butte America Foundation, AFL-CIO, and the SW Montana CLC are bringing Walter Reuther's nephew, film producer Sasha Reuther, to Butte and Missoula for the showing.

June 18 - TEDx 6:00 pm

June 25 - Dick Gibson's brown bag at the archives, 12:00 noon, on the dynamiting of the Union Hall

June 23-29 Butte Chinese Heritage Week. Mai Wah Open House Sat. June 28, 1-4.

Butte History Comes Alive - coming in July, in association with Butte Arts Foundation

4 comments:

  1. AnonymousDecember 7, 2014 at 12:47 PM

    I clicked on Montana's Women's link in the 'Link List' and most of the further links that went with the pictures there did NOT work. To bad, I was very disappointed and didn't bother with any other links in that list.

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    1. Richard GibsonDecember 7, 2014 at 1:01 PM

      I'm sorry that things did not work for you. The Montana Women's history link is to a Facebook page, which works for me. It appears that the links there to their web site - http://montanawomenshistory.org/ - are down right now. I don't know the cause for that lack but I imagine it is temporary, but in any event I don't have anything to do with maintaining it. Sorry.

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  2. UnknownJanuary 16, 2017 at 8:08 AM

    I was searching for articles on the explosion that happened in the 60's. I was in grade school and my dad was working there. I remember some men stole some dynamite and the officers followed them into an area where shots where fired. Of course it blew up because they hit the dynamite. I was relating the story to someone and now my interest it peaked. It was many years ago and my mom and dad are both gone so I cannot ask them details. Thank you. crazyoldlady6775@yahoo.com

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    1. Richard GibsonJanuary 16, 2017 at 8:15 AM

      Hello and thanks - your best resource for researching this is probably the Butte Archives, https://www.buttearchives.org/ They probably have the newspapers reporting on that event.

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