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Montana School of Mines, 1900. In 1900, Butte opened its first institution of higher education, the Montana School of Mines, which is contemporarily Montana Tech of the University of Montana. [30] Between approximately 1900 and 1917, Butte had a strong streak of Socialist politics, even electing a Mayor on the Socialist ticket in 1914. [31]
They were known for their struggles over control of the local copper mining industry in Butte, Montana, and the surrounding region, during the Gilded Age. The battles between Clark, Daly, Murray and Heinze, and later between just Heinze and industrialist financiers William Rockefeller and Henry H. Rogers are a large chapter in Montana history.
Montana Before History-11,000 Years of Hunter-Gatherers in the Rockies and Plains. Missoula, MT: Mountain Press Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0878425853. Malone, Michael P.; Roeder, Richard B.; Lang, William L. (1991). Montana-A History of Two Centuries. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press. ISBN 0-295-97129-0., the standard scholarly history
Butte is home to numerous museums and other educational institutions chronicling its history. In 2002, Butte was one of only 12 U.S. towns to be named a Distinctive Destination by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. [79] [110] The Butte Silver Bow Public Library, at 226 W. Broadway, is dedicated to preserving the town's history. [111]
The Anaconda Copper Mining Company, known as the Amalgamated Copper Company from 1899 to 1915, [1] was an American mining company headquartered in Butte, Montana.It was one of the largest trusts of the early 20th century and one of the largest mining companies in the world for much of the 20th century.
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Montana Resources, owned by the Washington Group, as of 2007, operates an open pit copper and molybdenum mine in Butte, and also recovers copper from the water in the Berkeley Pit. In 1980 the Berkeley Pit, the Clark Fork River and the smelter outside the town of Anaconda, MT were declared federal Superfund sites by the US EPA.
The History of Washington, Idaho and Montana (1845–1889) Vol XXXI. San Francisco, CA: The History Company. Fogarty, Kate Hammond (1916). The Story of Montana. New York: A. S. Barnes Company. Hamilton, James McClellan. From Wilderness to Statehood: A History of Montana, 1805–1900 Archived 2012-07-26 at the Wayback Machine (Bindfords & Mort ...