The tunnels underneath Butte, Montana are, not just mining tunnels, although the Copper City has plenty of these as well, these tunnels contained stores, eateries, a jail, and a brothel. They also contained on of Western America's grandest speakeasies. In the early 20th century, Butte was a bustling metropolis in which the trolleys ran 24 hours a day. As many as 130 different organizations did business in the tunnels along. When the country was firmly ensconced in prohibition, Butte still had somewhere in the order of 100 bars. So it was boom times for Butte when the Rockwood Hotel was built in 1912. The Rockwood was fancy, with floors imported from Italy and wainscoting in marble. in short, the Rockwood meant luxury. But it also meant booze, and lots of it. Because when the area under the Rockwood was excavated in 2004, a surprising discovery was made: In the tunnel's underneath was one of the grandest speakeasies to sling whiskey west of St. Louis, complete with carvings of mythical griffins, stained glass, tables for gaming, and a room for checking guest's coats. The collapse of prohibition was so dramatic and so sudden that the Rockwood Speakeasy was more or less abandoned, the coat check room was still full of coats, untouched since the 1920's and a political button was found on the ground. It read "Hoover for President". The button was a memento of how Montana's history and folklore can even be deeper than we realize, and that in additional to all the sorties we already know of homesteaders and trappers, farmers and schoolmarms, there are other stories buried just underneath.