No, we are not staying in a snake or near a snake or anything having to do with a snake! That's the name of this town near one of the largest free-standing smoke stacks in the West. Gold lured the miners to this area, silver encouraged them to stick around, but copper is where they made all their money and this smoke stack was part of the smelting plant that produced some of the purest copper in the first half 1900's. It is almost as tall as the George Washington Monument. Other than that, there is not much around here.
We are only 12 miles from Butte, so during a fierce but short thunder storm, we drove over and toured the downtown area of Butte. It is a well restored and maintained wild west town with lots of old buildings mixed in with the new but the rain deterred us from getting out and exploring more of the area and stores. It is said that Butte has over 2,000 miles of mined tunnels under the city and it is sitting near a huge open copper mine.
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