Anaconda Smeltermen

Published: 2019
By Kimberly D Richardson

Courage and the strength of the “Smeltermen” is what survives and is celebrated today in Deer Lodge County. “The Smeltermen” by Stephen Gigney The furnaces burning brightly, the metal all ablaze Men working in the casting area, wrapped in a red and steamed heat haze The sweat that pours profusely from hard and honest toil As more bright molten copper, is poured against the moulds Men keep safe, from stories told Some men young, and some men old And when the day is done, and weary limbs go home The pleasure of the open sky, allows the mind to roam.