| Living with Lead: An Environmental History of Idaho's Coeur d'Alenes, 1885-2011 Contributor(s): Snow, Bradley D. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0822964481 ISBN-13: 9780822964483 Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press OUR PRICE: $47.50 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - West (ak, Ca, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, Wy) - History | Historical Geography - Business & Economics | Industries - Natural Resource Extraction |
| Dewey: 363.738 |
| LCCN: 2017014489 |
| Series: Intersections: Histories of Environment |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.88 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - Idaho - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Chronological Period - 21st Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |