The Butte Irish: Class and Ethnicity in an American Mining Town, 1875-1925 by David M. Emmons

The Butte Irish: Class and Ethnicity in an American Mining Town, 1875-1925

David M. Emmons

464 pages • first pub 1989 (editions)

nonfiction informative reflective slow-paced
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In this pioneering study,  David Emmons tells the story of Butte's large and assertive population of Irish immigrants. He traces their backgrounds in Ireland, the building  of an ethnic community in Butte, the nature and hazards of their work in t...

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