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Episode 03: First And Last Warning

April 9, 2019 Nora Saks 00:35:57

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In August 1917, Frank Little was the victim of a grisly murder in Butte. Little was a labor organizer who came to Butte to unify and radicalize Butte’s miners in their fight against the Anaconda Mining Company for higher wages and safer working conditions. Most historians believe that the Anaconda Company was behind Little’s killing, but no one knows for sure. A note pinned to his underwear threatened, “Others take notice: first and last warning,” along with the numbers 3-7-77, the calling card of frontier vigilantes.

Episode 01: Butte’s Precarious Arrangement

March 5, 2019 Nora Saks 00:17:43

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Richest Hill episode 01: Get to know Butte, Montana, one of America’s biggest Superfund sites and one of Montana’s most compelling places. Richest Hill is a new podcast about the past, present and future of Butte, America, “the Richest Hill on Earth.”

Episode 00: Series Preview

January 9, 2019 Nora Saks 0:01:53

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If you don’t know Butte Montana, you might have heard it’s one of the biggest toxic messes in the country. But now the “mining city” is on the verge of sealing a deal that could clean it up once and for all. So how did we get here? What comes after Superfund? And who gets to decide?

Find out on Richest Hill, a new podcast from Montana Public Radio coming in early 2019