the history of butte, in many ways, is, you know, this town that should have died but never did. part of that is luck, geographically, but also the character of the people here. you know, they endured. as you might have gathered by now, this is a working-class town. and unusual in that it s a union town, a proudly union town in an othe otherwise very red state. butte is the most interesting, important town in america that nobody knows about. bryant mcgregor is the owner of the silver dollar saloon in what was once butte s chinatown. so we call ourselves butte america. amanda curtis, a former state congresswoman, was born of the labor movement. she s a unionist, an advocate for workers, and this solidly union city she calls home. when you got off the boat in ellis island, it says butte