Butte, MT – A Different Kind of Hot Spot

Butte is as authentic and charming an Old West mining town as you’ll find. It’s also the Love Canal of the Rockies. Even with that undeniable reality, hope springs eternal.

Ghosts dwell among the living in Butte, Montana, a mining town haunted by its glory days, when the population was three times what it is now. It is haunted by the thousands of miners who died here, taking copper out of the underground tunnels with drills and dynamite. And from the viewing stand on the lip of a noxious 1,800-foot-deep mine pit that sits next to the Uptown neighborhood, it’s clear that the city is also haunted by water.

By Jim Robbins, Jim Robbins is a Montana-based freelance writer. He last wrote for the magazine about the West’s wild wolves.

Full Story: http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/magazine/la-tm-butte18may01,1,1887126.story?coll=la-headlines-magazine&ctrack=1&cset=true
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