Mining Childhood: Growing Up in Butte, 1900-1960: Growing Up in Butte, Montana, 1900-1960 - Softcover

Finn, Janet

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0980129257 ISBN 13: 9780980129250

Verlag: MONTANA HISTORICAL SOC, 2012

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Book by Finn Janet L

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"Janet Finn has given voice to the children of Butte, Montana, and they are as gritty, tough, funny, and poignant as any characters in the history of the American West. By putting children at the heart of the story of Butte, Finn has shifted the ground of history, granting us a knee-high view into the social world of one of America's great mining towns."--Mary Murphy, Montana State University professor of history and author of Mining Cultures: Men, Women, and Leisure in Butte, 1914-41

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Mining Childhood offers a fresh perspective on Montana history. Drawing from a broad range of archival materials and oral histories, the book offers a child’s-eye view of key events in Butte’s history and considers how social, political, and economic forces shaping life in Butte left their marks on children. With its rich stories, the book captures children’s experiences of school, play, and work by exploring their joys and miseries, their keen impressions of life in Butte, and the varied lessons learned. These stories illuminate the meaning and purpose of mining life in Butte: people came in search of a better life for themselves, and they stayed and struggled in order to build a better life for their sons and daughters—living with the hardships and dangers of mining life so that their children might have a life beyond mining. Children were, quite simply, Butte’s reason to be.

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• Verlag: MONTANA HISTORICAL SOC
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0980129257
• ISBN 13: 9780980129250
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256