Ausby Auloff was captured in 1924 near Butte, Montana after trying to sell a distinctive railway watch.
The Central Interstate Low Level Radioactive Waste Compact and US Ecology purchased land 2 miles west of Butte, Nebraska in the early 1990s with the intention of placing a dump site there.
While the cost of smelting the complex copper-bearing ore was high, after the American Civil War, investors like William Andrews Clark and Andrew Jackson Davis began to develop Butte's mines and erect mills to extract the silver and gold.
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The Copper Kings, industrialists William Andrews Clark, Marcus Daly, and F. Augustus Heinze, were collectively known for the epic battles they fought in Butte, Montana and the surrounding region during the Gilded Age over the control of the local copper mining industry, a fight which had ramifications for not only Montana, but the United States as a whole.
The documentary Butte, America depicts its history as a copper producer and the issues of labor unionism, economic rise and decline, and environmental degradation that resulted from the activity.
Applying for a homestead on land in what is now Butte, Alaska, he cleared an airstrip on the property and began flying to rural communities throughout Alaska.
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They were discovered by Fielding Bradford Meek and H.M. Bannister while they were looking for fossil shells in the Lance Formation (then Laramie Formation) near the Black Butte and Bitter Creek.
Butte was the site of a large copper mine, and the entrepreneurs known as the Copper Kings.
Dashiell Hammett, once a Pinkerton agent stationed in Butte, Montana -- where he (allegedly) turned down an offer to assassinate Little -- used some historical background on union troubles and corporate corruption in his novel Red Harvest.
The type specimen of A. celer, YPM 1451, was reportedly discovered by Othniel Charles Marsh in October of 1872 at Butte Creek in Logan County, Kansas.
During the 1916 campaign, Reimer and Harrison toured the country steadily in support of their party, with Reimer thrown in jail for a time by the authorities of the mining town of Butte, Montana for pushing his radical message, while his running mate Harrison suffered a similar fate in the steel city of Homestead, Pennsylvania.
Butte is Chief of the Division of Systems Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital where he is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and (by courtesy) Computer Science and Immunology & Rheumatology.
At the base of the butte is Mormon Row, a popular place for photographers and tourists, with the photogenic Moulton Barn and herds of bison.
Bert Mooney Airport (IATA: BTM, ICAO: KBTM, FAA LID: BTM), serving Butte, Montana
Several movies have been filmed in Butte County, including Gone with the Wind, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Friendly Persuasion, Magic Town, The Klansman, Ruby Ridge: An American Tragedy, The Adventures of Robin Hood and Under Wraps.
Helltown, California or Butte Creek, an unincorporated community in Butte County, California
The regiment most closely associated with the Butte de Warlencourt was the Durham Light Infantry.
It is believed that he was buried on a butte between the towns of Lemhi and Tendoy, Idaho.
He served time in prisons in Fresno, California; Rusk, Texas; The Dalles, Oregon; Harrison, Idaho; Butte City Montana; Montana State reform School, Miles City Montana; State Prison Montana {"Jeff Davis" #3194}; Oregon {"Jefferson Baldwin" #7390}; Bridgeport Connecticut {John O'Leary}; New York's Sing Sing {"Jeff Baldwin" #75182}; Clinton Correctional Facility New York {"John O'Leary"}; Washington D.C. (#33379); and Leavenworth, Kansas {Carl Panzram #31614}.
Cunningham and his wife Jacquie Phelan are charter inductees to Crested Butte's Mountain Bike Hall of Fame.
Clagett Butte was named in 1926 by park photographer Jack Ellis Haynes and then superintendent Horace Albright to honor William H. Clagett (1838–1901), the Montana Territorial Delegate who put forth the Act of Dedication bill in Congress to create Yellowstone National Park.
Elephant Butte Dam or Elephant Butte Dike is a concrete gravity dam on the Rio Grande near Truth or Consequences, New Mexico.
The Embudo (named after the Spanish word meaning “funnel”) empties into the Rio Grande in the community of Embudo between two distinctively shaped buttes, thus creating a funnel effect after which it is named.
In 1912, James M. Hyde modified the Minerals Separation Process and installed it in the Butte and Superior Mill in Basin, Montana, the first such installation in the USA.
Griff Williams was born in Butte, Montana in 1966, the son of John Patrick Williams (born October 30, 1937), who was later elected to the state of Montana's House of Representatives and Carol Griffith Williams who was later elected to the Montana State Legislature and served as the first female majority leader in the state senate in the history of Montana.
The pass was discovered by Edwin Harrison McHenry, a civil engineer working for the Northern Pacific Railway, who was tasked with locating a route for the NP from the main line near Logan, Montana through to Butte.
Gerard's wife, Mary, was the daughter of copper magnate Marcus Daly, head of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company that developed the mines of Butte, Montana.
There is also a smaller mountain, Drake Butte, located in the Maury Mountains in Crook County that is named in his honor.
On July 1, 2009, Max Media established a new Fox affiliate on the digital subchannel of its ABC affiliates, KWYB in Butte and KWYB-LD in Bozeman.
Her skull and several other bones were recovered in 1984 near Camp Eighteen, California, in Butte County.
This signal can be seen on UHF channel 36.2 (or virtual channel 3.2 via PSIP) from a transmitter on East Butte in unincorporated northern Bingham County along the Idaho National Laboratory border.
In June 1926, a quarry was developed in the fault scarp east of Lava Butte as a source for paving material for the first The Dalles-California Highway (later U.S. Route 97).
Mayaro, California, an unincorporated community in Butte County, California
Mount Crested Butte is a Home Rule Municipality in Gunnison County, Colorado, United States.
The New Mexico meridian intersects the principal baseline, i.e. the initial point, above the Rio Grande del Norte, about ten miles (16 km) below the mouth of the Puerco River, on Black Butte just southeast of the village of San Acacia, New Mexico.
BIA Highway 27, also known as Big Foot Trail passes by the butte.
Saddle Butte can refer to several places in the United States.
Shankarrao Butte Patil Vidyalaya (SBPV formerly New English School Junnar) is a secondary and senior secondary School in western India, situated in the city of Junnar near Pune district.It was founded in 1935 by the Junnar Education Society.
Sentinel Butte was founded in 1902 along the transcontinental rail line of the Northern Pacific Railway.
Tempe Butte is most often seen as the backdrop to games held in Sun Devil Stadium, including until recently the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl, as well as Super Bowl XXX.
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Despite intensive development, the butte and its immediate surroundings continue to support a variety of native vegetation, including saguaro, Buckhorn Cholla, barrel cactus, creosote bush, palo verde, and mesquite.
Literary references to Thunder Butte appear in the story of Hugh Glass, a mountain man/trapper with the 1823 party of William Henry Ashley and Andrew Henry, which was traveling overland from Fort Kiowa to Fort Henry at the mouth of the Yellowstone River.
Boyle was born in a gold mining camp in Bald Butte, Montana (about two miles southwest of Marysville), in 1904 to James and Catherine (Mallin).
Wagon Mound National Historic Landmark, a butte and camp near town of Wagon Mound, New Mexico
Crested Butte Wildflower Festival, which takes place every July in Crested Butte, Colorado
He is best remembered as the editor of the radical Butte Bulletin around the turn of the 1920s and as an editor of the daily newspaper of the Communist Party USA from the middle-1920s through the 1930s.