Infamous during her lifetime but largely forgotten to history, writer and bohemian provocateur Mary MacLane had a complex relationship with Butte, the city that both formed and frustrated her as awriter. Her first confessional memoir, originally titled I Await the Devil’s Coming, was published in 1902 and became an immediate international bestseller. After a period on the East Coast, she returned to Butte and wrote a second memoir, I, Mary MacLane, that was published in 1917. Both her memoirs feature striking descriptions of Butte and illuminate MacLane’s feelings about the place and about herself. Join Montana Historical Society Historic Architecture Specialist Lindsay Tran in exploring the life of this noteworthy Montanan.