Tag: miner
Butte Miner Vanished After Cave-In — Then People Claimed They Saw Him Alive
Two weeks after a deadly cave-in inside Butte’s Minnie Healy Mine, four bodies had been recovered from beneath the rock and dirt. The fifth man,…
Helena Mining Leader Found Dying Outside Hospital
In January 1909, a mysterious note lured a prominent Montana mining man into the cold darkness of a winter night. By dawn, he was dying…
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Missing Montana Miner Feared to Be Silver Lake Wild Man
In the summer of 1902, people traveling through the Silver Lake country near Anaconda, Montana, began telling stories about a strange figure hiding in the…
