Al Beavis Let’s Talk Butte #2

Today on Let’s Talk Butte, we hear excerpts of our second oral history with Al Beavis, a lifelong miner who passed away on August 11th. Al invited me up to his house for a second oral history after we had talked for almost three hours about just his childhood. For this second session, Al wanted to tell me all about underground mining, how it was done and what it took to get the ore out of the Butte hill. 

These excerpts are just a snapshot of the three hour session I had with Al about mining. Al’s oral history was recorded as part of The Verdigris Project, which you can find online at verdigrisproject.org.

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This is Let’s Talk Butte, and today we’re listening to excerpts of an oral history with lifelong miner Al Beavis, who passed away on August 11th. Al had me up to his house for two oral history recordings, the first one all about his childhood in Walkerville, where he later became mayor, and this second session, where we talked exclusively about his mining career. Stay with us.

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This has been Let’s Talk Butte, today featuring excerpts of an oral history with Al Beavis, who passed away at his home in Walkerville on August 11th. We’ll miss ya Al.

Al’s oral history was recorded as part of the Verdigris project, an oral history partnership between KBMF and the Butte-Silver Bow Archives. 

Find this interview and other episodes of Let’s Talk Butte at our website, butteamericaradio.org.