The Fall 2021 issue digs into mining across the Treasure State. Patti Albrecht tells the story of Montana’s gold stampede, Robert Rath writes and illustrates the spirit of Butte, and Sherman Cahill follows the Chinese miners who came east to Gold Mountain and recounts three of Montana’s worst mining disasters. Lindsay Dick introduces Mary MacLane, Butte’s prodigal daughter, Joseph Shelton tracks the making of a ghost town at Granite, and Zuzu Feder weighs the complicated legacy of the state’s Superfund sites. Also inside: larch madness, the sapphire road, historic cemeteries and Toole County.