William L. Lang is professor of history at Portland State University.

• ContentsForeword to the 2006 Edition by William L. LangPreface to the Original Edition1. Gold Camp: The Rise and Fall of Butte City2. Clark, Daly, and the Anaconda: 1872-843: The "Richest Hill on Earth"4. Boom Town5. Politics: The Clark-Daly Feud6. Mr. Clark Goes to Washington7. "Consolidation": The Amalgamated and the Independents8. The Battle for Butte: 1901-69. Denouement: The Time of TransitionEpilogue: The LegacyNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

"Malone’s superbly crafted narrative treats the political economy of Butte and Montana from the gold boom of the 1870s through the absorption of the copper independents by the Standard Oil financed Amalgamated Copper Company in the first decade of the twentieth century. . . . The Battle for Butte is fine history: rich in detail, full of finely drawn people, masterfully clear where the subject matter is most complex, constructed to preserve something of the tone and atmosphere of the age."