In 1985, I took the first trip of my life. We drove from Oregon to Minnesota for a family reunion. For me, at that age, this was exciting. As we drove east on I-90, we stopped in Butte, Montana. There, I saw the Berkeley Pit,...
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On June 8, 1917, the Speculator Mine in Granite Mountain, near Butte, Montana, caught on fire. 168 miners died in the largest death toll in American history for a hard-rock.
Forget about what's for dinner. What's for dessert? Horror has a face... and you must make a friend of horror. (via https://t.co/5V6P52pN5h) pic.twitter.com/4xNnsTvaX6— 70s Dinner Party (@70s_party) March 21, 2016.
I suppose I should visit Glacier National Park and Glacier Bay National Park before the glaciers become one of our starkest memorials to human-caused climate change. The loss of these glaciers will have widespread negative impacts on the humans and ecosystems in entire region, as...
The borderlands historian Andrew Graybill's latest book is an extremely readable saga into the great complexities of what it has meant to be mixed-race in the American West. The Red.
In our national discussions on race, Native Americans are usually a footnote. We talk about them in the past but forget they are still around today and that they still.
On August 1, 1917, Frank Little, a veteran IWW organizer, was dragged out of his hotel in Butte, Montana by company thugs and lynched. His murder, one of the most famous killings of a labor organizer in American history, demonstrated the lengths to which mining...
Max Baucus, the Democratic Party's most annoying senator, is retiring at the end of his term. While like any Democrat, I worry about holding the seat, if Brian Schweitzer runs,.
A great photo gallery of the vanishing towns of Montana, where just a few people hold on in isolated places. Or sometimes they disappear from the map entirely. The American.
Most of us might not see the direct impact of the sequester on our lives yet. But for those reliant on the federal government, it's already hurting bad. The Post has a good piece on how Yellowstone National Park is adapting. The answer is that...
Quite a contest for today's craziest person. Here's three nominees: 1. Gun Owners of America president Larry Pratt: Pratt predicted that President Obama may begin confiscating guns in order to.
Mitt Romney is having a fundraiser in Hamilton, Montana. Not only is this fundraiser hosted by Charles Schwab, but it is at the home of Marcus Daly, one of Montana's.