To see the best of Butte, Montana, all Joyce OBill has to ... of town known as the Berkeley Pit, or just the pit, a former open-pit copper mine almost 1,800 feet deep. The city was once among ...

Dashiell Hammett, a former Pinkerton strikebreaker-turned-writer, modeled the fictional town of Poisonville on Butte, calling it an “ugly city of forty thousand people set in an ugly notch between two ...

Butte, once Montana's largest city and the heart of a copper mining boom that earned it the nickname 'the richest hill on earth,' has since seen its population shrink to around 36,000.

Image Butte was home to a copper mining boom a century ago that brought it the nickname “the richest hill on earth.” Image The Berkeley Pit ... productions that Montana began offering in ...