Pure Evel.
I did not know the most famous daredevil of the 1970s, Evel Knievel, was born in Butte, Montana, until I watched the documentary Being Evel. The man, whose career was pretty much over around the time he first entered the consciousness of my childhood (the early ’80s), was a complete mystery to me until I learned this fact. Before he was world-famous, he was famous in this former copper-mining town, the Detroit of Montana, for being a bad boy—a hustler, a thug, a pimp. Straight outta Butte—that’s Knievel’s story in a nutshell…
