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- Living with Lead: An Environmental History of Idaho's Coeur D'Alenes, 1885-2011
- Book
- 2017
- Published by: University of Pittsburgh Press
- Series: INTERSECTIONS: Histories of Environment
summary
The Coeur d’Alenes, a twenty-five by ten mile portion of the Idaho Panhandle, is home to one of the most productive mining districts in world history. Historically the globe’s richest silver district and also one of the nation’s biggest lead and zinc producers, the Coeur d’Alenes’ legacy also includes environmental pollution on an epic scale. For decades local waters were fouled with tailings from the mining district’s more than one hundred mines and mills and the air surrounding Kellogg, Idaho was laced with lead and other toxic heavy metals issuing from the Bunker Hill Company’s smelter. The same industrial processes that damaged the environment and harmed human health, however, also provided economic sustenance to thousands of local residents and a string of proud, working-class communities. Living with Lead endeavors to untangle the costs and benefits of a century of mining, milling, and smelting in a small western city and the region that surrounds it.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-2
- Introduction
- pp. 3-12
- 1. Uncle Bunker’s Town
- pp. 13-36
- 3. Lead Creek
- pp. 47-85
- 4. Foul Humours
- pp. 86-110
- 5. Raining Down Poison
- pp. 111-139
- 6. On Lead’s Front Lines
- pp. 140-167
- 7. A Brave New World
- pp. 168-189
- Conclusion
- pp. 190-196
- Selected Bibliography
- pp. 263-270
Additional Information
ISBN
9780822982791
Related ISBN(s)
9780822964483
MARC Record
OCLC
990544359
Pages
287
Launched on MUSE
2017-06-25
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2017