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Harmon’s Histories: Runaway elephant charms Butte, harkens to 1935 escape
By now, the whole world has seen a video of the “Great Escape of Viola,” the circus elephant, in Butte. But it’s not the first time a performing pachyderm has bolted for freedom in southwest Montana.