Download or read book Butte Its Copper Mines and Copper Kings written by P. A. O'Farrell and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Battle for Butte written by Michael P. Malone and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book Copper Camp written by Writers Project of Montana and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-12-12 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Butte Its Copper Mines and Copper Kings written by P. A. O'Farrell and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Butte and Its Copper Mines 1899 written by Thompson Investment Co., Butte, Mo and published by . This book was released on 1899* with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Butte and Its Copper Mines 1899 written by Thompson Investment Co and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Copper Mines of Butte and the Amalgamated Copper Company written by George Levi Walker and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Copper Kings of Montana written by Marian Templeton Place and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Mining in Butte written by and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The War of the Copper Kings written by C. B. Glasscock and published by Riverbend Pub. This book was released on 2002-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The famous account of the greedy battles between the three Copper Kings of Butte, Montana.
Download or read book Copper Camp written by Writers' Program (Mont.) and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The War of the Copper Kings written by C B Glasscock and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-08-03 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greed and corruption, bribery and fraud, insiders getting fabulously rich while workers get robbed. Sound familiar? That was the great battle for Butte, Montana, at the dawn of the 20th century when it was the richest hill on earth. Copper was the treasure, eagerly sought for wiring the modern world, and the hard rock below Butte was riddled with thick veins of the precious metal. Those who controlled the copper could make billions of dollars, the fortune sought by three men who fought for Butte’s mineral wealth with greed and generosity, cruelty and compassion, cowardice and courage. In this astonishing battle, they used their fabulous wealth to buy courts, newspapers, politicians, banks, police, and anything and anyone that could help them and hinder their opponents. To get what they wanted, their money flowed like snowmelt through the mile-high city and eventually reached the nation’s capital. All the while the miners toiled thousands of feet below ground in tunnels dug with blasting powder, picks, and shovels. And sometimes, backed by rival copper kings, they also battled, with fists and dynamite, either on the streets of Butte or far below the surface. At this time, Butte was the largest city between Minneapolis and Portland, and it was a wide-open town, born only recently in the rugged Rocky Mountains. Illustrated by rare historical photos, this book tells the story of Butte and the copper kings, a story of raw human drama and timeless historical significance.
Download or read book Butte an Unfinished Story written by Montel Hawkesworth Menting and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2006-09-15 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A mining intrigue radiates from Butte, Montana when an inventor and son get engulfed by the Anaconda Copper Mining Company before and during the Great Depression and World War II. Exploitation of mine workers, safety and environmental issues ensue. The family meets the challenges. The Company ceases." Butte: An Unfinished Story New Book Offers an Intriguing Glimpse into the Mining World Notre Dame, INA mining intrigue radiates from Butte, Montana when an inventor and his son are engulfed by the Anaconda Copper Mining Company upon the introduction of a revolutionary drill bit. Follow this true homespun inspirational account, Butte: An Unfinished Story by Montel Hawkesworth Menting, as the men and their families meet multiple challenges and overcome obstacles in the mining world and make work conditions safer for miners. For many years, the author lived in the mining environment explored in this book. Fifty-three original, interspersed photos illustrate the fascinating inner workings of the mining world and its inhabitants through a fifty-year period of US history. The sources of this book are mainly unpublished documents, letters, and diaries along with newspapers preserved by the authors family over the years. Through this story, readers can learn more about Montana, The Treasure State. Tourists will be interested in viewing the sights mentioned such as the Berkeley Pit and Mining Museum. About the Author Born of illustrious ancestors in Butte, Montana, Montel Hawkesworth Menting, MA, discovered over the years the joys associated with learning, teaching and traveling. Her genealogical research culminated with excursions to forty-five of the United States and over fifty international countries. As a teacher, Montels experience ranged from elementary through graduate school and adult education mostly in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her publications include Generations Have Trod, Have Trod and articles in educational journals and newsletters. Montel currently resides in Indiana.
Download or read book Empty Mansions written by Bill Dedman and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Janet Maslin, The New York Times • St. Louis Post-Dispatch When Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Bill Dedman noticed in 2009 a grand home for sale, unoccupied for nearly sixty years, he stumbled through a surprising portal into American history. Empty Mansions is a rich mystery of wealth and loss, connecting the Gilded Age opulence of the nineteenth century with a twenty-first-century battle over a $300 million inheritance. At its heart is a reclusive heiress named Huguette Clark, a woman so secretive that, at the time of her death at age 104, no new photograph of her had been seen in decades. Though she owned palatial homes in California, New York, and Connecticut, why had she lived for twenty years in a simple hospital room, despite being in excellent health? Why were her valuables being sold off? Was she in control of her fortune, or controlled by those managing her money? Dedman has collaborated with Huguette Clark’s cousin, Paul Clark Newell, Jr., one of the few relatives to have frequent conversations with her. Dedman and Newell tell a fairy tale in reverse: the bright, talented daughter, born into a family of extreme wealth and privilege, who secrets herself away from the outside world. Huguette was the daughter of self-made copper industrialist W. A. Clark, nearly as rich as Rockefeller in his day, a controversial senator, railroad builder, and founder of Las Vegas. She grew up in the largest house in New York City, a remarkable dwelling with 121 rooms for a family of four. She owned paintings by Degas and Renoir, a world-renowned Stradivarius violin, a vast collection of antique dolls. But wanting more than treasures, she devoted her wealth to buying gifts for friends and strangers alike, to quietly pursuing her own work as an artist, and to guarding the privacy she valued above all else. The Clark family story spans nearly all of American history in three generations, from a log cabin in Pennsylvania to mining camps in the Montana gold rush, from backdoor politics in Washington to a distress call from an elegant Fifth Avenue apartment. The same Huguette who was touched by the terror attacks of 9/11 held a ticket nine decades earlier for a first-class stateroom on the second voyage of the Titanic. Empty Mansions reveals a complex portrait of the mysterious Huguette and her intimate circle. We meet her extravagant father, her publicity-shy mother, her star-crossed sister, her French boyfriend, her nurse who received more than $30 million in gifts, and the relatives fighting to inherit Huguette’s copper fortune. Richly illustrated with more than seventy photographs, Empty Mansions is an enthralling story of an eccentric of the highest order, a last jewel of the Gilded Age who lived life on her own terms. Praise for Empty Mansions “An amazing story of profligate wealth . . . an outsized tale of rags-to-riches prosperity.”—The New York Times “An evocative and rollicking read, part social history, part hothouse mystery, part grand guignol.”—The Daily Beast “Fascinating . . . [a] haunting true-life tale.”—People “One of those incredible stories that you didn’t even know existed. It filled a void.”—Jon Stewart, The Daily Show “Thrilling . . . deliciously scandalous.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Download or read book The Biography of F Augustus Heinze written by Sarah McNelis and published by Riverbend. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of the youngest and brashest Copper King.
Download or read book The War of the Copper Kings written by Carl Burgess Glasscock and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Different Perspective of the History of Butte Montana written by Isabel Thigpen Hill and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
