Our Town One Hundred + Years Ago... September 1900

The fall harvest is nearly done, kids are going back to school, the weather is getting cooler, and an election is on the horizon, with plenty of political discussion taking place. It sounds like today, but these things also happened in our valley in September 1900. If you wanted to know who was registered at the Whitehall Hotel, the paper listed names and where guests were from. Those who made the long journey to Butte were listed as having visited the Smoky City. The news from outside our valley included, of course, the candidates for U.S. President, trouble in China, how bad American tourist...