An autobiography or a written account of one's memory of certain events or people.
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Bawdy houses and saloons: problems with law enforcement on the Iron Range
Cooley Butler and John Butler brawling with employees
Meeting up with Bill McGovern 50 years later
Emmett's daughter reminiscences about her life growing up on the Iron Range
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Butler Brothers enter the iron mining business
Butler mining involvement grows with railroad engine purchase
Business relations between the Butler Brothers
Life working on the Iron Range
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Technical difficulties in strip mining
Mine flooding
"Dead Duck" railroad engineers
Friendship with DC Greenway
Emmette's children
Fourth of July in Virginia, Minnesota
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Emmett Butler and his family permanently move to the Iron Range
Life on the Iron Range, 1908
Difficulties with the neighbors
Financial panic of 1907-1908
Labor-management relations
Immigrant laborers
James J. Hill and the US Steel Corporation
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The beginnings of iron mining in Minnesota
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Butler Brothers win contract for Grand Central Terminal in New York City, 1904
Butler Brothers win contract for the electrification of the New York Central Railroad
Butler's also win contract for the Detroit River Tunnel
Formation of Butler-Hoff Construction company with Olaf Hoff
Difficulties in tunnel building
Tunnel workers-"Sand Hogs"-made $1.75 an hour. The highest paid construction workers in the US
Difficulties with inspectors
Butlers build the North Dakota State Capitol in 1904
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Capitol Ground Breaking
Gold finial
How the Butler Brothers won the Capitol contract
The Georgia marble story
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