Silver Bow County, Montana - Butte, Montana, People from Silver Bow County, Montana, Transportation in Silver Bow County, Montana, Walkerville (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: Butte, Montana, People from Silver Bow County, Montana, Transportation in Silver Bow County, Montana, Walkerville, Montana, Interstate 90 in Montana, Anaconda Copper, 2009 Montana Pilatus PC-12 crash, Berkeley Pit, Milltown Reservoir Superfund Site, National Register of Historic Places listings in Silver Bow County, Montana, Copper Kings, United States District Court for the District of Montana, Anaconda Road Massacre, List of mountains in Silver Bow County, Montana, David Frederick Cunningham, Montana Tech of the University of Montana, Butte-Anaconda Historic District, Anaconda Copper Mine, Melrose, Butte, List of lakes in Silver Bow County, Montana, Butte Copper Kings, Homestake Pass, Pipestone Pass, List of cemeteries in Silver Bow County, Montana, Dickie Hills, Speculator Mine disaster, Butte, America, Venus Alley, Butte Daredevils, Imperial Block, Silver Bow, Butte, Rocker, Butte, Ramsey, Montana. Excerpt: Butte (IPA: ) is a city in Montana and the county seat of Silver Bow County, United States. In 1977, the city and county governments consolidated to form the sole entity of Butte-Silver Bow. As of the 2010 census, Butte's population was 34,200. Butte is currently Montana's 5th largest city. In the 19th and 20th centuries, Butte experienced every stage of development of a mining town, from camp to boomtown to mature city to center for historic preservation and environmental cleanup. Unlike most such towns, Butte's urban landscape includes mining operations set within residential areas, making the environmental consequences of the extraction economy all the more apparent. Despite the dominance of the Anaconda Company, Butte was never a company town. It prided itself on architectural diversity and a civic ethos of rough-and-tumble individualism. In the 21st century, efforts at interpreting and preserving Butte's...