Dashiell Hammett, a former Pinkerton strikebreaker-turned-writer, modeled the fictional town of Poisonville on Butte, calling it an “ugly city of forty thousand people set in an ugly notch between two ...
It’s a fitting coincidence that a man who professed his deep desire to play for the All-Blacks last time he was in town now had the opportunity to play a gig at their home stadium. Even more fitting ...