If you live in Butte, or just love it, you’ll want to check put the special Butte issue from Montana The Magazine of Western History that will be available in early January.

Check out what the issue contains:

• Entering Butte by Robert R. Swartout Jr.

• ‘See America the Bountiful’ – Butte’s Berkeley Pit and the American Culture of Consumption by Timothy J. LeCain

• Another Look at Burk’s Butte: What We Learned from the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial by Frederick E. Hoxie

• Caring for the Dead: The Development of the Funeral Business in Butte by Zena Beth McGlashan

• 1,000,000 Glasses a Day: Butte’s Beer History on Tap by Steve Lozar

• Driving Haul Trucks in the Berkeley Pit: Reminiscences of a Gritty Job by Bill Long

• About Butte by Wim Wenders

• The Butte-Anaconda National Historic Landmark by Martha Kohl

• Bioprospecting in the Berkeley Pit: The Search for Valuable Natural Products from a Most Unnatural World by Andrea Stierle

• Our Lady of the Rockies by Kris King

Montana The Magazine of Western History has been published by the Montana Historical Society since 1951 and circulates to all 50 states and to over a dozen foreign countries. It is one of the most prize-winning magazines in the nation receiving several Spur and Wrangler awards.

Copies of Montana The Magazine of Western History should be available on newsstands now or very soon or can be ordered by calling 1-800-243-9900 or (406) 444-4708.

P.S. Thanks to reader Jools for the heads up on this.

-Delaney