Title: Buried in Butte
Description: The history of the Montana's most famous mining city, Butte, told through the stories of its cemeteries and some of the people who were buried there. Includes the first cemetery • Histories of the current cities of the dead • Development of the funeral business • Coroners • Society funeral customs, laying to rest Butte’s first Irish priest • Monument making as art • Husbands and wives • Children and health issues • Secret societies • Immigrants • Heroes • The rich and/or famous • Modern times—remembering Evel Kneivel, Catholic cemeteries’ troubles and much, much more
Subjects: history, Montana, mining, cemeteries, mortuaries, monuments, immigrants, Cemeteries, Biography, History
Places: Butte, Montana
People: Andrew Jackson Davis, William A. Clark, Marcus Daly, F. Augustus Heinze, Judge William Clancy, Evel Knievel
Time periods: 1867-2010