Butte Montana

A historical look at the Irish of Butte, MontanaMarcus Daly, who became one of the richest men in the West, was born in 1841, in Ballyjamesduff, County Cavan, the youngest of eleven children of a farm family. At 15 he arrived in New York City with very little money and limited education. It took him five years to save enough money to buy passage to San Francisco where he had a … [Read more...] about From the Emerald Isle to the Copper Mines