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100 Years

100 Years

Turned sideways in a quiet empty alley, dumpsters lie useless next to buildings that once were filled with people. Anaconda Mining, the principal employer for Butte, changed hands a number of times and went through several cycles of fraudulent activity on an executive scale. These schemes include John Ryan and Percy Rockefeller's pump and dump system of aggressive speculation on the prices of commodities within their monopolistic empire. 1932, the Senate Finance Committee found Percy and John's actions to be, "the greatest financial fraud in US history and a leading cause of the Great Depression".

Earth's Dark Turning Along The Snake Summer Shadow Driving to Pullman A Ragged Line Why Does it Matter? Endless Perspective Out Where the Sky is Blue When Nothing Happens Biggs Rufus Highway Hot Quiet Afternoon Akranes Cement Factory Butte, Montana Wide Open Town 100 Years I've Known Rivers Mt. Rainier and Gifford Pinchot, WA Strange Comfort in Endlessness Accidental Grace It Was What They Made It