![]() Meanwhile, in the summer months, there are wonderful camping, hiking, biking, and fly fishing opportunities at the Gallatin National Forest and River. Take to the slopes of the Big Sky Resort (the USA’s second largest), marvel at the majestic Rocky Mountains, or relax in the relaxing and beautiful Chalet. Known for its moderate winter and summer temperatures, there are many year-round activities. Home to a population of around 3,000 residents, the mountain community of Big Sky is an outdoor lover’s dream. Image credit Zorro Stock Images via Shutterstock ![]() Big Sky Big Sky, Montana, dwarfed by the enormity of Lone Mountain. This holds true for Montana, the Big Sky Country, where visitors of all ages can enjoy some of the very best of the Western lifestyle any time of year. Though the large cities of any State still attract the most attention, the adorable small towns continue to offer some of the best-hidden gems. Montana, the nation’s fourth largest by total area, boasts wide open skies, large swaths of wilderness, and loads of fascinating culture and history. This is a work that will help rewrite post-World War II western history.The Treasure State of Montana is one of America’s most naturally beautiful and culturally splendid places. In richly textured prose laced with the voices of dozens of Anacondans, Laurie Mercier reveals the intricate twinings of gender and class that enabled this working-class community to resist the conservative and confining ideologies of cold war America. " Anaconda is a splendid study of one of the most neglected topics in western history. Subtle, sophisticated, passionately human, Anaconda recasts in local textures the opposing claims of class, capital, and gender in the cold war West."-Elizabeth Jameson, author of All That Glitters: Class, Conflict, and Community in Cripple Creek "In Laurie Mercier's Anaconda, the smelter city once called the ‘City of Whispers' rings with the voices of working people whose community unionism contested corporate control and whose memories challenge corporate history. "With painstaking attention to ethnic, gender, and class dynamics, and utilizing rich archival and oral history sources, Laurie Mercier has produced a finely written and richly excavated study of the century-long relationship between the powerful Anaconda Copper Mining Company (ACM) and the local working-class community it helped create."- Indiana Magazine of History "Mercier's Anaconda demonstrates the great potential of a community study- she respectfully probes the bonds and divisions of a vibrant town and in the process places Anaconda within a broader regional and national framework."- Journal of American History The seamlessness with which Mercier weaves the tensions and possibilities of gender, class, ethnic and labor relations into the larger community story is particularly impressive."-Janet L. Reviews"An important and evocative story of community unionism, the values of solidarity and mutual support, and the creative agency of men and women working together and, at times, against one another in making a living and a life. Mercier also explores how gender limits on women's political, economic, and social roles shaped the nature and outcome of labor struggles, and traces how union rivalries, environmental concerns, and the 1980 closing of the Anaconda smelter transformed the town.Ī fascinating portrait of how community molds working class consciousness, Anaconda offers important insights about the changing nature of working class culture and collective action. During five decades of devoted unionism, locals embraced an "alternative Americanism" that championed improved living standards for working people as the best defense against communism. Mercier depicts the vibrant life of the smelter city at full steam, incorporating the candid commentary of the locals ("the company furnished three pair of leather gloves. ![]() ![]() About the BookLaurie Mercier's look at "community unionism" examines the distinctive culture of cooperation and activism fostered by residents in Anaconda, Montana, home to the world's largest copper smelter and the namesake of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company. ![]()
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