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Butte, America’s Story

Three hundred bite-size history lessons about Butte’s culture, architecture, and mining hosted by Richard Gibson. This series draws from Gibson’s extensive research at the Butte-Silver Bow Archives over the last decade to illuminate Butte’s most memorable places, characters and events. As writer Edwin Dobb has said, “Like Concord, Gettysburg and Wounded Knee, Butte is one of the places America came from.”

Mining City Reflections

This radio series focuses on women’s history and immigrant stories in Butte, Montana. Host and writer Marian Jensen is a retired university administrator and author of four novels. Mining City Reflections looks at the formation and activities of the Women’s Protective Union, as well as ethnic minority women’s personal stories. These programs tell the tales of the boom-to-bust mining town from the voices of those who lived it.

Life Underground

These in-depth, hour-long episodes tell the story of underground mining by drawing from archival recording and new oral histories from independent miners, Anaconda Company men and women, and a diverse cast of characters from mining-adjacent industries and professions within the once-booming city of Butte. Partly focused on the techniques and practices of hard rock underground mining in the 20th century, this program draws from oral history collections at the Butte-Silver Bow Archives to tell tales of mining culture and examine important chapters in the storied history of Butte, Montana.