Local geologist and historian Dick Gibson has lived in Butte since 2003 and has worked as a tour guide for various organizations and museums. …
Major League Baseball is often considered to have begun with the first National League game in Philadelphia in 1876. There’s little doubt that…
By most accounts, significant placer gold was first discovered in the Butte area on July 13, 1864, by Barker and party. There’s a monument on …
The "World Famous" Miles City Bucking Horse Sale starts Thursday. It was canceled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Check out these photos…
Seven groups asked the U.S. Board of Geographic Names on Tuesday to rename three geographic places in Montana now named after Jefferson Davis,…
More than a century after they came, they are remembered. As Butte grew rapidly in the 19th century, immigrants from Ireland's Beara Peninsula…
On Feb. 2, 1989, temperatures plummeted to minus 27 degrees Fahrenheit as 49 runaway train cars barreled down Mullen Pass above Helena, Montan…
On Feb. 2, 1989, temperatures plummeted to minus 27 degrees Fahrenheit as 49 runaway train cars barreled down Mullen Pass above Helena, Montan…
Here’s what people are uncovering in The Montana Standard newspaper archives. Search our historical issues for obituaries, marriage and birth …
Copper King William A. Clark established the Gardens in 1899 for the miners and city that helped feed his fortune. The park grew to 68 acres a…
Copper King William A. Clark established the Gardens in 1899 for the miners and city that helped feed his fortune. The park grew to 68 acres o…
Take a look at these Halloween illustrations from the archives of the Montana Standard, Butte Miner and Anaconda Standard.
Take a look at the history behind Montana's statehouse, the Montana State Capitol, from its original (and abandoned) design, to its status tod…
Ask any resident of Anaconda about their city and they will likely mention the city's deep mining history.
Vintage postcards of mines from the past.
These days you can’t help but notice some of the quirky names bestowed on newborn babies and wonder — “Why in the world did they pick that name?”
Just a few years before Billings became the "Magic City," another town served as the area's commercial hub. Coulson was a riverboat town that …
As Butte grew from a mining camp to a huge industrial metropolitan city, amenities expanded to accommodate the needs and wants of a population…
Butte’s Chinese Baptist Mission was established in 1896 at 44 West Galena Street, and Mrs. Whitmore was the superintendent there in 1898. By 1…
In 1918, Butte’s City Directory listed 23 dairies, but only 11 of them were in town. The others were a few miles out of Butte, listed as “5 mi…
Street names in the United States tend to be long-lived, but changes do happen. In Butte, some street name changes honored certain people, man…
In the summer of 1923 Butte was in all her glory and President Warren G. Harding came to visit, to see for himself what all the commotion was about.
When Eugene V. Debs first visited Butte on February 8, 1897, he was already a prominent labor union activist. He was a founder of the American…
The southeastern corner of Gold and Montana Streets was just barely outside the original southern limit of Butte City as it was defined when t…
The discovery of precious metals brought countless new residents to Butte, many of whom lived in small mining shacks.
When Hebgen Dam was completed in 1915, the reservoir it created on the Madison River just west of Yellowstone Park was the seventh largest in …
Until the early 1900s there were many mining companies in Butte, with the Amalgamated (later the Anaconda Company) owning the lion’s share of …
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