Butte, Montana, long deserved its reputation as a wide-open town. Mining Cultures shows how the fabled Montana city evolved from a male-dominated mining enclave to a community in which men and women participated on a more equal basis as leisure patterns changed and consumer culture grew. Mary Murphy looks at how women worked and spent their leisure time in a city dominated by the quintessential example of "men's work": mining. Bringing Butte to life, she adds in-depth research on church weeklies, high school yearbooks, holiday rituals, movie plots, and news of local fashion to archival material and interviews.

A richly illustrated jaunt through western history, Mining Cultures is the never-told chronicle of how women transformed the richest hill on earth.

| Cover Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Copper Metropolis 2. Habits of Drink Illustrations A 3. Manners and Morals 4. Born Miners 5. Ladies and Gentlemen, Brothers and Sisters Illustrations B 6. Imagination's Spur: Station KGIR 7. Depression Blues and New Deal Rhythms Conclusion Bibliography Index Back Cover | A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 1998. Winner of the Barbara Sudler Award given by the Colorado Historical Society, 1998. — A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 1998. Winner of the Barbara Sudler Award given by the Colorado Historical Society, 1998. — Colorado Historical Society
|Mary Murphy is a professor of American women's history at Montana State University.