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 ...