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Monday, December 15, 2014
America’s “Stiffest Guzzlers”
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At Christmastime in 1878, Montana’s territorial capital had been fixed at Helena, Fort Benton was the “Chicago of the Plains,” Butte was a s...
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Carrie Nation
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In 1910, the hatchet-wielding, bar-smashing temperance crusader Carrie Nation came to Butte. At that time Butte had 275 saloons; even Mayor...
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