Butte Montana

Bands of Sheep and Cattle , Black Butte, Madison County, Montana, Russell Lee, photographer, 1942. FSA/OWI Color Photographs, 1938-1944 ...

My family came to Superior from Missoula in 1898, when I was about 14. My father had been editor of several of the larger Montana papers, among them the Butte Miner. Our former environment had been so different from the one we found here that the mining atmosphere made quite an…impression on my brothers and sisters and me, at first mainly of shock. ... [Read More]

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WHEELER, Burton Kendall - Biographical Information
WHEELER, Burton Kendall, a Senator from Montana; born in Hudson, Middlesex County, Mass., February 27, 1882; attended the common schools; worked as a stenographer in Boston, Mass.; graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1905; admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Butte, Silver Bow County, Mont.; member, State house of representatives 1910-1912; United States district attorney for Montana 1913-1918; resumed the practice of law in Butte; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for governor of Montana in 1920; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1922 for the term ending March 3, 1929; unsuccessful candidate for Vice President of the United States in 1924 on the Progressive Party ticket; reelected to the United States Senate in 1928, 1934 and 1940 and served from March 4, 1923, to January 3, 1947; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1946; chairman, Committee on Indian Affairs (Seventy-third Congress), Commit ... [Read More]

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CVO Menu - America's Volcanic Past - Montana
The Sweet Grass Hills are prominent land marks, rising nearly 3,000 feet above the surrounding plains and are visible for morethan 50 miles. The Sweet Grass Hills consist of three separate butte complexes, East, Middle and West Buttes, and two smaller features, Grassyand Haystack Buttes. The Sweet Grass Hills consist of igneous intrusive rocks that are considered Eocene in age (Ross, 1950).These igneous rocks range in composition from shonkinite to syenite to intrusive trachyte with a minor amount of lamprophyre.The surrounding sedimentary rocks domed up by the intrusives range in age from Mississippian to Cretaceous. These areprimarily limestones and shales with minor amounts of sandstone. The older Mississippian Madison Formation occurs near thecentral portions of East and West Buttes, and the younger Jurassic-Cretaceous formations are found adjacent to Middle Butte,which is of smaller size. The sedimentary rocks, particularly limestone, have been chemically and physically altered du ... [Read More]