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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.
Montana Free Press - Helena. Montana Kaimin - Missoula. Montana Standard - Butte. The Montanian - Libby. The Mountaineer - Big Sandy. The MSU Exponent - Bozeman. Northern Plains Independent - Wolf Point. Phillips County News - Malta. The Philipsburg Mail - Philipsburg.
His 1983 KXLF news story on the closing of Anaconda's last remaining Butte mining operation (Continental Pit) can be seen in the 2008 PBS documentary film Butte, America. He wrote seven books about the city and its history; an eighth book dealt with the long-time football rivalry between Montana State and the University of Montana . [5]
William A. Clark. 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 States as a whole.
2372-868X (print) 2372-8698 (web) OCLC number. 10317615. Website. billingsgazette .com. The Billings Gazette is a daily newspaper based in Billings, Montana, that primarily covers issues in southeast Montana and parts of northern Wyoming. Historically it has been known as the largest newspaper in Montana and is geographically one of the most ...
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.
Butte ( / bjuːt / BEWT) is a consolidated city-county and the county seat of Silver Bow County, Montana, United States. In 1977, the city and county governments consolidated to form the sole entity of Butte-Silver Bow. The city covers 718 square miles (1,860 km 2 ), and, according to the 2020 census, has a population of 34,494, making it ...
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 ...