Ellen Crain

Authors Ellen Crain and Lee Whitney present here a wellspring of vintage photographs culled from the Butte-Silver Bow Archives, the main county repository of historic records and documents for the Butte area. These stirring images show the city in the early 1900s, when it had nearly 100,000 residents--the largest city between Minneapolis and Spokane, and a uniquely cosmopolitan one in an agricultural state.

Authors Ellen Crain and Lee Whitney present here a wellspring of vintage photographs culled from the Butte-Silver Bow Archives, the main county repository of historic records and documents for the Butte area. These stirring images show the city in the early 1900s, when it had nearly 100,000 residents--the largest city between Minneapolis and Spokane, and a uniquely cosmopolitan one in an agricultural state. See less