Author: Sandra Dallas
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 1429903376
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
May Anna Kovacks was discovered on the dustry streets of Butte, Montana and went on to become a Hollywood star. War, fame, marriage, love, and heartbreak came and went. What never changed was the bond she shared with her two best friends, Effa Commander and Whippy Bird. When scandal, murder, and betrayal made a legend of May Anna, only Effa and Whippy Bird could set the record straight.
Buster Midnight's Cafe
Author: Sandra Dallas
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 1429903376
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
May Anna Kovacks was discovered on the dustry streets of Butte, Montana and went on to become a Hollywood star. War, fame, marriage, love, and heartbreak came and went. What never changed was the bond she shared with her two best friends, Effa Commander and Whippy Bird. When scandal, murder, and betrayal made a legend of May Anna, only Effa and Whippy Bird could set the record straight.
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 1429903376
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
May Anna Kovacks was discovered on the dustry streets of Butte, Montana and went on to become a Hollywood star. War, fame, marriage, love, and heartbreak came and went. What never changed was the bond she shared with her two best friends, Effa Commander and Whippy Bird. When scandal, murder, and betrayal made a legend of May Anna, only Effa and Whippy Bird could set the record straight.
A Special Place in Hell. Stories on Life in Butte, Montana
Author: Patrick L. Mcginley
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781497309661
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Poetry influenced and about life in Butte, Montana during the copper mining days of the 50's through the 80's. it is a resplendent walk through the Irish Catholic community and shares the influences of the diverse population on the Historic mining city Of Butte, Montana
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781497309661
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Poetry influenced and about life in Butte, Montana during the copper mining days of the 50's through the 80's. it is a resplendent walk through the Irish Catholic community and shares the influences of the diverse population on the Historic mining city Of Butte, Montana
Mile High Mile Deep
Author: Richard Kilroy O'Malley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780878426867
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
First published by Mountain Press in 1970 and in print nearly continuously through several editions by different publishers, Mile High Mile Deep is once again available through Mountain Press. Part memoir, part novel, Richard Kilroy O�Malley�s compelling coming-of-age story captures life in Butte in the 1920s, when the city was a lusty, two-fisted copper camp. Written with sensitivity and feeling, this wonderful book brings to life the Irish, Scandinavians, Slavs, Cornishmen, Syrians, Greeks, Finns, and Italians who scratched a living in the boisterous mining city. First as observers and then as participants, Dick and his friend Frank see and feel the stark power of the mines�a mile high in the blue sky of Montana, but a mile deep, too, in the sweat and gloom of the underground shafts that trapped and destroyed.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780878426867
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
First published by Mountain Press in 1970 and in print nearly continuously through several editions by different publishers, Mile High Mile Deep is once again available through Mountain Press. Part memoir, part novel, Richard Kilroy O�Malley�s compelling coming-of-age story captures life in Butte in the 1920s, when the city was a lusty, two-fisted copper camp. Written with sensitivity and feeling, this wonderful book brings to life the Irish, Scandinavians, Slavs, Cornishmen, Syrians, Greeks, Finns, and Italians who scratched a living in the boisterous mining city. First as observers and then as participants, Dick and his friend Frank see and feel the stark power of the mines�a mile high in the blue sky of Montana, but a mile deep, too, in the sweat and gloom of the underground shafts that trapped and destroyed.
Beyond Spirit Tailings
Author: Ellen Baumler
Publisher: Montana Historical Society
ISBN: 9780972152242
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Passed down through generations, these stories illustrate the subtle presence of the past in the everyday lives of modern Montanans.
Publisher: Montana Historical Society
ISBN: 9780972152242
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Passed down through generations, these stories illustrate the subtle presence of the past in the everyday lives of modern Montanans.
Butte
Author: Matt Vincent
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439625409
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Nicknamed The Richest Hill on Earth, Butte was once among the worlds largest copper producers and a thriving industrial metropolis in the undeveloped west. Working with the Butte-Silver Bow Public Archives and the World Museum of Mining, authors and Butte residents Matt Vincent and Chad Okrusch show here how the gritty town has weathered many booms and busts, celebrating its rich history while also dealing with the environmental legacies of its industrial age.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439625409
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Nicknamed The Richest Hill on Earth, Butte was once among the worlds largest copper producers and a thriving industrial metropolis in the undeveloped west. Working with the Butte-Silver Bow Public Archives and the World Museum of Mining, authors and Butte residents Matt Vincent and Chad Okrusch show here how the gritty town has weathered many booms and busts, celebrating its rich history while also dealing with the environmental legacies of its industrial age.
The Richest Hill on Earth
Author: Richard S. Wheeler
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 9780765366436
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
One of the West's most beloved writers sets his sights on the war of the Copper Kings in late 19th-century Montana, and their struggle for control of the Orichest hill on Earth.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 9780765366436
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
One of the West's most beloved writers sets his sights on the war of the Copper Kings in late 19th-century Montana, and their struggle for control of the Orichest hill on Earth.
Montana, Its Story and Biography
Author: Tom Stout
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Montana
Languages : en
Pages : 1124
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Montana
Languages : en
Pages : 1124
Book Description
The Story of Mary MacLane
Author: Mary MacLane
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752417862
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Story of Mary MacLane by Mary MacLane
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752417862
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Story of Mary MacLane by Mary MacLane
Frank Little and the IWW
Author: Jane Little Botkin
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806157917
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 535
Book Description
Franklin Henry Little (1878–1917), an organizer for the Western Federation of Miners and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), fought in some of the early twentieth century’s most contentious labor and free-speech struggles. Following his lynching in Butte, Montana, his life and legacy became shrouded in tragedy and family secrets. In Frank Little and the IWW, author Jane Little Botkin chronicles her great-granduncle’s fascinating life and reveals its connections to the history of American labor and the first Red Scare. Beginning with Little’s childhood in Missouri and territorial Oklahoma, Botkin recounts his evolution as a renowned organizer and agitator on behalf of workers in corporate agriculture, oil, logging, and mining. Frank Little traveled the West and Midwest to gather workers beneath the banner of the Wobblies (as IWW members were known), making soapbox speeches on city street corners, organizing strikes, and writing polemics against unfair labor practices. His brother and sister-in-law also joined the fight for labor, but it was Frank who led the charge—and who was regularly threatened, incarcerated, and assaulted for his efforts. In his final battles in Arizona and Montana, Botkin shows, Little and the IWW leadership faced their strongest opponent yet as powerful copper magnates countered union efforts with deep-laid networks of spies and gunmen, an antilabor press, and local vigilantes. For a time, Frank Little’s murder became a rallying cry for the IWW. But after the United States entered the Great War and Congress passed the Sedition Act (1918) to ensure support for the war effort, many politicians and corporations used the act to target labor “radicals,” squelch dissent, and inspire vigilantism. Like other wage-working families smeared with the traitor label, the Little family endured raids, arrests, and indictments in IWW trials. Having scoured the West for firsthand sources in family, library, and museum collections, Botkin melds the personal narrative of an American family with the story of the labor movements that once shook the nation to its core. In doing so, she throws into sharp relief the lingering consequences of political repression.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806157917
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 535
Book Description
Franklin Henry Little (1878–1917), an organizer for the Western Federation of Miners and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), fought in some of the early twentieth century’s most contentious labor and free-speech struggles. Following his lynching in Butte, Montana, his life and legacy became shrouded in tragedy and family secrets. In Frank Little and the IWW, author Jane Little Botkin chronicles her great-granduncle’s fascinating life and reveals its connections to the history of American labor and the first Red Scare. Beginning with Little’s childhood in Missouri and territorial Oklahoma, Botkin recounts his evolution as a renowned organizer and agitator on behalf of workers in corporate agriculture, oil, logging, and mining. Frank Little traveled the West and Midwest to gather workers beneath the banner of the Wobblies (as IWW members were known), making soapbox speeches on city street corners, organizing strikes, and writing polemics against unfair labor practices. His brother and sister-in-law also joined the fight for labor, but it was Frank who led the charge—and who was regularly threatened, incarcerated, and assaulted for his efforts. In his final battles in Arizona and Montana, Botkin shows, Little and the IWW leadership faced their strongest opponent yet as powerful copper magnates countered union efforts with deep-laid networks of spies and gunmen, an antilabor press, and local vigilantes. For a time, Frank Little’s murder became a rallying cry for the IWW. But after the United States entered the Great War and Congress passed the Sedition Act (1918) to ensure support for the war effort, many politicians and corporations used the act to target labor “radicals,” squelch dissent, and inspire vigilantism. Like other wage-working families smeared with the traitor label, the Little family endured raids, arrests, and indictments in IWW trials. Having scoured the West for firsthand sources in family, library, and museum collections, Botkin melds the personal narrative of an American family with the story of the labor movements that once shook the nation to its core. In doing so, she throws into sharp relief the lingering consequences of political repression.
Political Hell-Raiser
Author: Marc C. Johnson
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806163771
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 505
Book Description
Burton K. Wheeler (1882–1975) may have been the most powerful politician Montana ever produced, and he was one of the most influential—and controversial—members of the United States Senate during three of the most eventful decades in American history. A New Deal Democrat and lifelong opponent of concentrated power—whether economic, military, or executive—he consistently acted with a righteous personal and political independence that has all but disappeared from the public sphere. Political Hell-Raiser is the first book to tell the full story of Wheeler, a genuine maverick whose successes and failures were woven into the political fabric of twentieth-century America. Wheeler came of political age amid antiwar and labor unrest in Butte, Montana, during World War I. As a crusading United States attorney, he battled Montana’s powerful economic interests, championed farmers and miners, and won election to the U.S. Senate in 1922. There he made his name as one of the “Montana scandalmongers,” uncovering corruption in the Harding and Coolidge administrations. Drawing on extensive research and new archival sources, Marc C. Johnson follows Wheeler from his early backing of Franklin D. Roosevelt and ardent support of the New Deal to his forceful opposition to Roosevelt’s plan to expand the Supreme Court and, in a move widely viewed as political suicide, his emergence as the most prominent spokesman against U.S. involvement in World War II right up to three days before Pearl Harbor. Johnson provides the most thorough telling of Wheeler’s entire career, including all its accomplishments and contradictions, as well as the political storms that the senator both encouraged and endured. The book convincingly establishes the place and importance of this principled hell-raiser in American political history.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806163771
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 505
Book Description
Burton K. Wheeler (1882–1975) may have been the most powerful politician Montana ever produced, and he was one of the most influential—and controversial—members of the United States Senate during three of the most eventful decades in American history. A New Deal Democrat and lifelong opponent of concentrated power—whether economic, military, or executive—he consistently acted with a righteous personal and political independence that has all but disappeared from the public sphere. Political Hell-Raiser is the first book to tell the full story of Wheeler, a genuine maverick whose successes and failures were woven into the political fabric of twentieth-century America. Wheeler came of political age amid antiwar and labor unrest in Butte, Montana, during World War I. As a crusading United States attorney, he battled Montana’s powerful economic interests, championed farmers and miners, and won election to the U.S. Senate in 1922. There he made his name as one of the “Montana scandalmongers,” uncovering corruption in the Harding and Coolidge administrations. Drawing on extensive research and new archival sources, Marc C. Johnson follows Wheeler from his early backing of Franklin D. Roosevelt and ardent support of the New Deal to his forceful opposition to Roosevelt’s plan to expand the Supreme Court and, in a move widely viewed as political suicide, his emergence as the most prominent spokesman against U.S. involvement in World War II right up to three days before Pearl Harbor. Johnson provides the most thorough telling of Wheeler’s entire career, including all its accomplishments and contradictions, as well as the political storms that the senator both encouraged and endured. The book convincingly establishes the place and importance of this principled hell-raiser in American political history.