Copper-mining district in the northern Rocky Mountains which drew Manx miners from the late nineteenth century.

Montana has produced copper for something over eighty years, principally around Butte, a site which has been called the richest hill on earth. Silver, gold, lead and zinc were worked there as well. The district's Manx element was strong enough to support a branch of the North American Manx Association, and the men who went out included Wilson Jenkinson, a Foxdale miner whose great-grandfather had come from the English Lake District.

The connection is one of skill rather than of chance. Foxdale was the Island's own lead and zinc field, and the mining districts of Montana recruited the kind of men it trained.

Nothing further about the settlement survives in the corpus consulted. Of the sixteen passages returned for this item, fifteen are false positives on the word Butte, mostly Butteland in Northumberland, the Earl of Bute and the Butte de Tumiac in Brittany.