Living With Lead: An Environmental History Of Idaho'S Coeur D'Alenes, 1885-2011 (Intersections: Histories Of Environment)

The Coeur dÆAlenes, 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 globeÆs richest silver district and also one of the nationÆs biggest lead and zinc producers, the Coeur dÆAlenesÆ legacy also includes environmental pollution on an epic scale. For decades local waters were fouled with tailings from the mining districtÆs 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 CompanyÆs 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.

• | Author: Bradley D. Snow
• | Publisher: University Of Pittsburgh Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 24, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 272 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/History
• | ISBN-10: 0822964481
• | ISBN-13: 9780822964483