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[Butte, Montana, was] a very interesting busy, bustling place. . . . sort of an oasis between Minneapolis and the Coast; it was the big city! With opera, acting companies, the arts, boxing matches. . . . there were the Italians and the Yugoslavians and the Finlanders and the Jewish people and the Cornishmen, and all kinds of ethnic groups that maintained their own cultural identities in their own little colonies around the city. [A]ll of the company heads—the ACM [Anaconda Copper Mining Company] heads—were living in the same community, practically next door to the miners. . . . they lived right in the city, in their splendid houses, with servants and everything like that. But the miners were just down the block, a few houses down. It was this kind of mix that made Butte interesting. . . . [M]y background is so entirely unrural that you can’t believe it. I never went out riding horses, or farming. . . . city life is what I knew and kind of grew up in—tenements, housing tenements, one right next to another, three- or four-story tenements. No yards, no lawns. It was like living in Brooklyn!

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