Montana: Stories of the Land
Companion Website and Online Teacher's Guide
Chapter 10 - Politics and the Copper Kings, 1889-1904
Chapter 1 - Montana: Where the Land Writes History
Chapter 2 - People of the Dog Days
Chapter 3 - From Dog Days to Horse Warriors
Chapter 4 - Newcomers Explore the Region
Chapter 5 - Beaver, Bison, and Black Robes
Chapter 6 - Montana's Gold and Silver Boom
Chapter 7 - Two Worlds Collide
Chapter 8 - Livestock and the Open Range
Chapter 9 - Railroads Link Montana to the Nation
Chapter 10 - Politics and the Copper Kings
Chapter 11 - The Early Reservation Years
Chapter 12 - Logging in the "High Lonesome"
Chapter 13 - Homesteading This Dry Land
Chapter 14 - Towns Have Lives, Too
Chapter 15 - Progressive Montana
Chapter 16 - Montana and World War I
Chapter 17 - Montanans on the Move
Chapter 18 - The Great Depression Transforms Montana
Chapter 19 - World War II in Montana
Chapter 20 - Building a New Montana
Chapter 21 - A People's Constitution
Chapter 22 - Living in a New Montana
The Many Names of the Anaconda Copper Company
Butte's major copper company had many names over the course of its existence. Below is a brief timeline. The "Historical Note" included in the finding aid for the Anaconda Copper Mining Company Records (housed in the Montana Historical Society Archives) offers a concise and very useful corporate history for those wishing more detail.
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1880 The Anaconda Gold and Silver Mining Company is formed.
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1891 The name changes to the Anaconda Mining Company.
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1895 The name changes again to Anaconda Copper Mining Company.
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1899 Amalgamated Copper Company is created as a holding company to consolidate the copper industry. Amalgamated owns but is not involved in the management of the various companies, which continue to operate independently.
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1915 Amalgamated dissolves and all of its properties become departments of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company.
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1955 The corporation changes its name to The Anaconda Company in recognition that its business interests extend far beyond copper.
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1971 The Chilean government nationalizes American-owned mines within its borders, bringing about a financial crisis for the Anaconda Company.
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1977 Atlantic-Richfield Company (ARCO) purchases the operation.
