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For years people have come to Butte, Montana and written about the city from the outsider's perspective. This film, made between 1997 and 2002, is a continuation of that tradition.
Directed & Filmed by John Lightfoot
23 minutes | 16mm | 2002 |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
Books and articles about Butte and the copper industry (partial list) |
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Anselmo Mineyard: Butte, Montana, Washington, DC: National Park Service, Preservation Assistance Division, 1989 |
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Boisterous Butte, Joseph Kinsey Howard, Survey Graphic, May, 1939 |
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A Brief History Of Butte, Montana: The World's Greatest Mining Camp: Including A Story Of The Extraction And Treatment Of Ores From Its Gigantic Copper Properties, Freeman, Harry C., Chicago, H. O. Shepard Co., printers, 1900 |
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Beautiful Columbia Gardens: the far-famed pleasure resort of Butte. Butte, Mont. : Butte Electric Railway Co., [19--] |
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Buster Midnight's Cafe, Sandra Dallas. New York: Random House, 1990 |
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Butte-Anaconda Almanac: A Day By Day History Of Montana's Two Greatest Mining & Smelting Towns, Jeanette Prodgers, Butte Historical Society, 1991 |
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Butte and Anaconda Revisited: an overview of early-day mining and smelting in Montana, Brian Shovers [et al.]; Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology, 1991 |
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Butte and Montana Beneath the X-ray, a collection of editorials from the Butte X-ray during the years 1907-08, Warren G. Davenport, The X-ray Publishing Company, 1908 |
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Butte City, Montana, The Largest Mining Camp On Earth, H. K. Bushnell |
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Butte Illustrated, B. E. Calkins, c1897 |
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The Butte Irish: Class And Ethnicity In An American Mining Town, 1875-1925, David M. Emmons, c1989 |
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Butte, Montana, a Select Bibliography, Mary Murphy, Bill Walker. Butte, Mont. 1980 |
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Butte, Montana: a Project Report, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, 1981 |
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Butte, Montana. Ordinances, local laws, etc. The compiled ordinances of the City of Butte, 1902. Comp. by Edwin M. Lamb and Harry A. Bolinger. Butte, 1902 |
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Butte's Memory Book, Don James; pictures by C. Owen Smithers, Sr. Caldwell, Idaho : Caxton Printers, 1975 |
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Butte Under The Hill: A Brief Introduction To Mining And Geology, Sharon E. Lewis, Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology, Montana College of Mineral Science and Technology, 1989 |
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Constitution and by-laws of the Western Federation of Miners, adopted at Butte City, Mont., May 19, 1893, amended at Butte, Montana, July 1911. International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers. |
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Copper Camp: Stories Of The World's Greatest Mining Town, Butte, Montana, The Writers' Program Of The Work Projects Administration, New York, Hastings House, 1943 |
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"The First National Bank of Butte; seventy-five years of continuous banking operation, 1877 to 1952 under the successive ownership and management of three men, each named Andrew Jackson Davis", Butte, Mont., 1952 |
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Geology And Ore Deposits Of The Butte District, Montana, Walter Harvey Weed, Hill Publishing Co., 1905 |
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"The Gibraltar: Socialism and Labor in Butte, Montana, 1895-1920", Jerry W. Calvert. Helena : Montana Historical Society Press, 1988 |
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"The Great Dynamite Explosions At Butte, Montana, January 15, 1895", John F. Davies, The Butte Bystander, 1895 |
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"The Great Western Bus Ride", Jack Kerouac, Esquire, March 1970 |
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The Growth And Decline Of Chinese Communities In The Rocky Mountain Region, Lee, Rose Hum, Chicago, 1947 |
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Historical Butte: The Richest Hill On Earth, Beverly J. Brothers. Second printing December, 1977 |
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Historic Uptown Butte: An Architectural And Historical Analysis Of The Central Business District Of Butte, Montana, John N. DeHaas, Jr., c1977 |
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"Into the Pit", Time Magazine, Monday, September 22, 1975 |
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Inside USA, John Gunther, Harper & Brothers; 1947 |
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I, Mary MacLane; A Diary Of Human Days, Mary MacLane, New York, F. A. Stokes Co., 1917 |
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Lessons from the Granite Mountain shaft fire, Butte. Washington, Govt. Printing Office, United States Bureau of Mines, Bulletin 188, 1922. |
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Mining Cultures: Men, Women, and Leisure in Butte, 1914-41, Mary Murphy. University of Illinois Press, 1997 |
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Montana, A State Guide Book, Federal Writers' Project. Montana. New York, The Viking Press, 1939 |
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"The Murder of Frank Little: Radical Labor Agitation in Butte, Montana, 1917", Labor History, X (Spring, 1969), 177-192. Reprinted in Micheal Malone and Richard Roeder (eds.), Montana's Past : Selected Essays, University of Montana Press, 370-391, 1973 |
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Pegasus Pulls A Hack; Memoirs Of A Modern Minstrel, Berton Braley, 1934 |
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Plants Hardy in Butte: a comprehensive index of trees, shrubs, biennials and perennial border and rock plants that have survived at least two Butte winters. Butte, Mont.: Montana Writers' Project, 1941 |
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Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett, New York, A.A. Knopf, 1929 |
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"Resources of Butte: its mines and smelters, its growth and wonders, its railroad traffic, commercial advantages, real estate market, attractions as a place of residence and business", Butte Chamber of Commerce, 1895 |
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"Review of safety and health conditions in the mines at Butte", Washington, Govt. Printing Office, 1925 |
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"Seven Talks About Mines". Butte, Mont.: Montana Standard, 1939 |
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The Sheriff of Silver Bow, Berton Braley, 1921 |
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Sketches of Butte (from Vigilante days to prohibition), George Wesley Davis, The Cornhill Company, 1921 |
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"The Speculator Disaster in 1917, Labor Resurgence at Butte, Montana", Arizona and the West, XI (Spring, 1969), 27-38 |
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The Story Of Butte [Guy X. Piatt, editor], Butte, Mont.: Press of the Standard Manufacturing & Printing Co., 1897 |
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Tracing The Veins: Of Copper, Culture, And Community From Butte To Chuquicamata, Janet L. Finn. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998 |
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"The Truth About Butte ...", George R. Tompkins, Butte: Butte Socialist Press, 1917 |
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Underground Warfare at Butte, Butte, Mont., World Museum of Mining, 1964 |
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The War Of The Copper Kings: Builders Of Butte And Wolves Of Wall Street, C.B. Glasscock. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1935 |
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