Maguire’s Opera House, Butte, Montana

When Mark Twain came to Butte in the summer of 1895, one of five cities in Montana he visited, his international fame came before him. His August 1 performance at Maguire’s Opera House on Broadway, where the Leggatt Hotel now stands, was to a receptive audience that more than filled the opera house’s 1,100 seats. Twain himself enjoyed the audience, surprised “to find this London-Parisian-New York audience out in the mines." 

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