Snow, Bradley Dean

Pittsburgh. 2017. April 2017. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9780822964483. Intersections: Histories of Environment, Science, and Technology in the Anthropocene. 20 b&w illustrations. 272 pages. paperback. . keywords: Environmental History, US West. FROM THE PUBLISHER - ‘In Living with Lead, Bradley Snow takes us through a harrowing history of humanity's relationship with one of the most poisonous metals ever to see wide use in the modern age. Tracing the dramatic story of one small Northern Rocky Mountain smelter town, Snow reveals how the things we often dismissively term ‘raw materials' sometimes control us more than we control them.' - Timothy James LeCain, Montana State University. 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 entangle the costs and benefits of a century of mining, milling, and smelting in a small western city and the region that surrounds it. inventory #42049 ISBN: 9780822964483.