The Battle for Butte: Mining and Politics on the Northern Frontier, 1864-1906

by Michael P. Malone, William L. Lang (Foreword by)

Overview

First published in 1981, The Battle for Butte has remained the best treatment of the influence of copper in the political history of Montana. "Fine history: rich in detail, full of finely drawn people, masterfully clear where the subject matter is most complex, constructed to preserve something of the tone and atmosphere of the age."-American Historical Review

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780295986074
Publisher:	University of Washington Press
Publication date:	04/17/2006
Series:	Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and Biography , #4
Pages:	301
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

William L. Lang is professor of history at Portland State University.

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Since it was first published in 1981, The Battle for Butte has remained the most sophisticated account of the events in Butte and the best treatment of the influence of copper in the political history of Montana.

Table of Contents

Contents

Foreword to the 2006 Edition by William L. Lang

Preface to the Original Edition

1. Gold Camp: The Rise and Fall of Butte City

2. Clark, Daly, and the Anaconda: 1872-84

3: The "Richest Hill on Earth"

4. Boom Town

5. Politics: The Clark-Daly Feud

6. Mr. Clark Goes to Washington

7. "Consolidation": The Amalgamated and the Independents

8. The Battle for Butte: 1901-6

9. Denouement: The Time of Transition

Epilogue: The Legacy

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

Editorial Reviews

Malone's superbly crafted narrative treats the political economy of Butte and Montana from the gold boom of the 1870s through the absorption of the copper independents by the Standard Oil financed Amalgamated Copper Company in the first decade of the twentieth century. . . . The Battle for Butte is fine history: rich in detail, full of finely drawn people, masterfully clear where the subject matter is most complex, constructed to preserve something of the tone and atmosphere of the age.

-- "American Historical Review"

From the Publisher

"Malone’s superbly crafted narrative treats the political economy of Butte and Montana from the gold boom of the 1870s through the absorption of the copper independents by the Standard Oil financed Amalgamated Copper Company in the first decade of the twentieth century.... The Battle for Butte is fine history: rich in detail, full of finely drawn people, masterfully clear where the subject matter is most complex, constructed to preserve something of the tone and atmosphere of the age."

American Historical Review