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Our Lady of the Rockies is a 90-foot (27 m) statue built in the likeness of Mary, the mother of Jesus, that stands atop the Continental Divide overlooking Butte, Montana, United States. It is the fourth-tallest statue in the United States after Birth of the New World, the Statue of Liberty, and the Pegasus and Dragon. The base is 8,510 feet ...
Mike McGrath, Montana Attorney General (B) Mary MacLane, feminist author and "Wild Woman of Butte" [19] Mike Mansfield, U.S. senator from Montana, longest-serving Senate Majority Leader and former US Ambassador to Japan [20] Lee Mantle, United States Senator from Montana [21] Judy Martz, Olympic speed skater and Governor of Montana
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Butte has one local daily, a weekly paper, as well as several papers from around the state. The Montana Standard is Butte's daily paper. It was founded in 1928 and is the result of The Butte Miner and the Anaconda Standard merging into one daily paper. [170] The Standard is owned by Lee Enterprises. The Butte Weekly is another local paper. [171]
Location of Montana. Montana / m ɒ n ˈ t æ n ə / ⓘ is a state in the Western United States. The western third of Montana contains numerous mountain ranges. Smaller, "island ranges" are found in the central third of the state, for a total of 77 named ranges of the Rocky Mountains.
This is a list of the counties in the U.S. state of Montana. There are 56 counties in the state. There are 56 counties in the state. Montana has two consolidated city-counties— Anaconda with Deer Lodge County and Butte with Silver Bow County .
Montana School of Mines, 1900. In 1900, Butte opened its first institution of higher education, the Montana School of Mines, which is contemporarily Montana Tech of the University of Montana. [30] Between approximately 1900 and 1917, Butte had a strong streak of Socialist politics, even electing a Mayor on the Socialist ticket in 1914. [31]
On April 19, 1920, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and the Metal Mine Workers Industrial Union called for a strike in the mines around Butte. They hoped the strike would help secure higher wages, an eight-hour day, and end the use of the rustling card, a system that allowed employers to blacklist employees involved in union organizing, among other goals. [1]