The Butte Inter Mountain (Butte, Mont.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
782 issues from 1901 to 1903, published in Butte, Montana, digitised for Chronicling America.
The origins of the Butte Inter Mountain date back to the publication of the Daily Intermountain established by Lee Mantle, a prominent Republican businessman from Butte, Montana in 1881. The Butte Inter Mountain began publication on May 2, 1901. Mantle had arrived in Butte in 1877 to establish a Wells Fargo office and within four years accumulated enough capital in mining and real estate to launch a newspaper. From the outset, the Daily Intermountain promoted Republican politics and Mantle’s station in the party: first as a legislator from Silver Bow County, then as the mayor of Butte, and finally as a U.S. Senator from Montana.
During the 1880s, Butte emerged from obscurity to world prominence as one of the world’s largest producers of copper, setting the stage for the “battle of the copper kings” at the beginning of the 20th century. Butte capitalists Marcus Daly, William A. Clark, and F. Augustus Heinze battled in the press and at the ballot box for control of Butte copper and state political interests. Each of these men purchased a newspaper: Daly the Anaconda Standard, Clark the Butte Miner, and Heinze the Reveille. The fourth newspaper of import in Butte, the Butte Inter Mountain, jousted with the others over a variety of issues, but all the newspapers provided a running commentary on mining activity in the area and state, labor concerns, and sports. There was a separate page in the Butte Inter Mountain for “Anaconda News” which covered affairs in the smelter town…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Butte, Montana, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress