City and County of Butte-Silver Bow, MT

Brown Bag Lunch with author Brian Leech The Butte Archives will continue its Brown Bag Lunch series on Wednesday, February 27, with a presentation and book signing by Brian James Leech. Leech is the author of The City That Ate Itself: Butte, Montana and Its Expanding Berkeley Pit, an exhaustively researched and passionate account of the history of Butte and its dramatic relationship with the Berkeley Pit. Leech provides a social and environmental history using oral history interviews and archival finds to explore the lived experience of open-pit copper mining in Butte. Brian Leech is Associate Professor of History at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois, where he also serves as Coordinator of its First-Year Inquiry Program. He is currently Secretary of the U.S. Mining History Association. His award-winning research has been published in places like Montana: The Magazine of Western History and The Mining History Journal.

Wed Feb. 27

Butte Convention & Visitors Bureau

Things to do, places to stay, festivals, events, tours, and more! Visit the Butte Convention & Visitors Bureau for all of your tourism needs. Learn More...
Butte-Silver Bow Public Archives

The Archives was established in 1981 to maintain the non-current records of Butte-Silver Bow. Given the significant industrial, political, and social history of Butte in the American West, the government records and archival holdings are in great demand. Learn More...