Destination

<p><strong>Butte Montana</strong> was once the richest hill on earth a source of amazing wealth and the copper that eventually wired America. In<em> Destination: Butte Montana</em> Colleen Clancy Hansen tells the stories of Butte's early years through the lives of her ancestors from <strong>Wales</strong> and <strong>Ireland</strong>. From the late <strong>1800s</strong> forward the <strong>Johns</strong> <strong>Davises</strong> and <strong>Clancys</strong> witnessed firsthand the <strong>War of the Copper Kings</strong> the <strong>Tong Wars</strong> the <strong>Granite Mountain Mine</strong> disaster that killed more than <strong>160 men</strong> the <strong>Spanish flu pandemic</strong> and two world wars. A retired secondary school teacher of English <strong>Clancy</strong> skillfully weaves the families' personal tragedies and triumphs into <strong>Butte's grand drama</strong> following the rise and fall of copper barons the emergence of<strong> America's labor movement</strong> (and the violent backlash) and the tapestry of <strong>ethnic communities</strong> that proudly produced more than <strong>half of the country's copper</strong>.</p>