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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Stiller, David, 1947- Wounding the West. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2000 (OCoLC)607464145 |
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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
David Stiller |
| ISBN: | 0803242816 9780803242814 |
| OCLC Number: | 42643522 |
| Description: | xv, 212 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 1 Beginnings 9 -- 2 Discovery 17 -- 3 Hard Times and Early Signs 35 -- 4 Rebirth 45 -- 5 Dam 63 -- 6 An Open Portal 87 -- 7 Planting Fish 105 -- 8 When Giants Die 125 -- 9 Cleanup 149 -- 10 Divide 175. |
| Responsibility: | David Stiller. |
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Abstract:
Traces the role of hardrock mining and its relationship with the American West by following the environmental history of one Montana mine, the Mike Horse, from its 1898 discovery, through its heyday in the 1940s, subsequent abandonment, and eventual cleanup under the coercion of a state law that many would consider ill-suited for abandoned mines.
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"The author, a hydrologist and environmental consultant with long-standing outdoor experience in the locality, writes in an effective personal style, with recollective descriptions of terrain, streams, nature, and the people who provide an anecdotal human thread"--"Choice" Read more...
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