What's up, Comaniacs? Chad here. This week only, I'm crashing your podcast feed to give you a

taste of a new show I've been working on with a few friends here in Montana. We're pretty excited

about it, and we hope you'll check it out. It's a history and true crime podcast called Death in the

West, and for our first season, we're taking a look at a famous unsolved murder here in Montana

from the early 1900s. It's a fascinating story that actually has a bunch of surprising parallels to

today. Anyway, this is the first episode. If you like it, you can subscribe to the show at

iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, or a bunch of other places where you can get your podcasts.

If you don't like it, that's fine too.

I'll just stop bugging you about it.

Okay, here's the debut episode of Death in the West.

Here's a story you probably haven't heard before.

A little more than a hundred years ago, in an out-of-the-way mining town in the middle of the Rocky Mountains,

a man got murdered in the dead of night. That man's name was Frank Little, and the town where he was killed was Butte, Montana.

Back in the day, Frank Little was kind of an important guy, and Butte was an important place.

Little was a union organizer who traveled all over the west fighting for the rights of workers.

He'd come to the working-class stronghold of Butte during a bitter strike to help

organize the city's downtrodden copper miners. And then, in a brutal explosion of violence that

made newspaper headlines all over the country, he was killed. On this podcast, we're going to

dig deep into Frank Little's unsolved murder, tracing the threads from the night of his

death all the way up to the way we still live and work in America today. A word of warning,

though, this story involves some graphic language and depictions of violence that might be troubling

to some listeners. So who was Frank Little? Who killed him? And how did his life and death become a secret pivot point in the American story?

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