Sure, there are bigger crowds that will gather for citified debauchery in New York, Chicago, New Orleans and Savannah, but there’s no celebration of this fine day that can hold a candle to the one in Butte, Montana.
Some of the finest fiction ever written featuring a town’s celebratory spirit as a key element set the events in Butte – Ivan Doig’s Sweet Thunder – even if it was the 4th of July. If it’s not on your bookshelf it sure as hell should be.
Just so you know.
