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The Montana Standard is a daily newspaper in Butte, Montana owned by Lee Enterprises. History. On September 12, 1928 the Anaconda Standard merged with Butte Miner to form The Montana Standard. At the time it was owned by the Anaconda Company. In 1959, It was sold to Lee Enterprises.
December 17, 1985. Dedicated to. Blessed Virgin Mary. Our Lady of the Rockies is a 90-foot (27 m) statue built in the likeness of Mary, the mother of Jesus, that sits atop the Continental Divide overlooking Butte, Montana, United States. It is the fourth-tallest statue in the United States after Birth of the New World, the Statue of Liberty ...
History of Butte, Montana. Original Butte courthouse, 1885. A headframe overlooking Butte. Butte is a city in southwestern Montana established as a mining camp in the 1860s in the northern Rocky Mountains straddling the Continental Divide. Butte became a hotbed for silver and gold mining in its early stages, and grew exponentially upon the ...
Butte has one local daily, a weekly paper, as well as several papers from around the state. The Montana Standard is Butte's daily paper. It was founded in 1928 and is the result of The Butte Miner and the Anaconda Standard merging into one daily paper. The Standard is owned by Lee Enterprises. The Butte Weekly is another local paper.
The Copper Kings were industrialists Marcus Daly, William A. Clark, James Andrew Murray and F. Augustus Heinze. They were known for the epic battles fought in Butte, Montana, and the surrounding region, during the Gilded Age, over control of the local copper mining industry, the fight that had ramifications for not only Montana, but the United ...
The city of Butte is at lower right. / 46.02; -112.51. The Berkeley Pit is a former open pit copper mine in the western United States, located in Butte, Montana. It is one mile (1.6 km) long by one-half mile (800 m) wide, with an approximate depth of 1,780 feet (540 m). It is filled to a depth of about 900 feet (270 m) with water that is acidic ...
Harry Dahlberg. Harry "Swede" Dahlberg Sr. (July 2, 1896 - June 1, 1971 [1] [2]) was an American college football player and high school coach, teacher and athletic director. He was a high school sports coach for 45 years, 44 years at Butte High School, Butte, Montana. During his 44 year tenure his teams won 27 state championships across ...
Columbia Gardens (amusement park) / 46.0065933; -112.4641851. The Columbia Gardens (1899–1973) was an amusement park in Butte, Montana, established by copper king William A. Clark and later owned and maintained by Anaconda Copper. During its 74 years of operation, it was the only major amusement park in the entire state.