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A Gentlewoman's View of Butte in the 1880s
12:00 PM
Montana Historical Society (east of the Capitol)

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Josephine White Bates’ novel A Blind Lead with University of Providence English Professor Aaron Parrett. Bates lived in Butte before it transitioned from the silver mining camp to large-scale copper mining, and her novel of life in a fictionalized city served as a capitalist morality tale, but also of Butte before its boom. $5

Links: http://mhs.mt.gov/

Age Group: Adults

Venue: Montana Historical Society (east of the Capitol)