Are There More Buddhas Than Buddhists in Montana?

When I began planning this trip in February, stopping in Missoula seemed to be not merely a logical and reasonable choice but a nearly ideal one. A mere 300 miles from Canyon Village, it was close enough to allow plenty …

That’s Not a Mesa, It’s a Butte. Or is it? – Part 3

Making toxic water. As the pit grew, ACM began purchasing nearby properties until it had swallowed the surrounding neighborhoods of Meaderville, Dublin Gulch, and McQueen. In the sixties, the Berkeley Pit Mine was feeding the Weed Concentrator more than 50,000 …

That’s Not a Mesa, It’s a Butte. Or is it? – Part 2

Berkeley Pit and other disasters. Within a few decades after the city was founded in 1864, Butte, Montana was known as the “Richest Hill on Earth” – a phrase that remains its motto to this day. Placer miners moving north …