Table of Contents

Preface: The Meaning and Making of Childhood in Butte, Montana Chapter One: Mining Childhood: Situating Children in Butte's History Chapter Two: Mining Childhood Chapter Three: Saving Children Chapter Four: Child's Play Chapter Five: School Days Chapter Six: Learning to Labor Chapter Seven: A McQueen Childhood Chapter Eight: Epilogue: Childhood Matters Index Acknowledgements Photo Credits

About the Author

Janet L. Finn is professor of social work at the University of Montana and faculty member in the international development studies and gender studies departments. She has written extensively about Butte and childhood.

Reviews

"Janet Finn has given voice to the children of Butte, Montana, and they are as gritty, tough, funny, and poignant as any characters in the history of the American West. By putting children at the heart of the story of Butte, Finn has shifted the ground of history, granting us a knee-high view into the social world of one of America's great mining towns."-Mary Murphy, Montana State University professor of history and author of Mining Cultures: Men, Women, and Leisure in Butte, 1914-41