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Smoke and tailings : an environmental history of Butte and Anaconda, Montana, 1880-1930 / Fredric L. Quivik.
Van Pelt Library TD888.C64 Q58 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Quivik, Fred, Author.
- Series:
- Mining and society series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Copper industry and trade--Environmental aspects--Montana--History.
- Copper industry and trade.
- Smelting--Environmental aspects--Montana--History.
- Smelting.
- Air--Pollution--Montana--History.
- Air.
- Soil pollution--Montana--History.
- Soil pollution.
- Environmental protection--Political aspects--Montana--History.
- Environmental protection.
- Anaconda Copper Co--History.
- Anaconda Copper Co.
- Butte (Mont.)--Environmental conditions--History.
- Butte (Mont.).
- Anaconda (Mont.)--Environmental conditions--History.
- Anaconda (Mont.).
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 433 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Reno ; Las Vegas : University of Nevada Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- "Smoke and Tailings explores the environmental history of copper-smelting industry in Butte and Anaconda, Montana"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Historical context
- Background to mining at Butte
- Beginnings of Butte's mining industry
- Amazing growth of the 1880s
- Beginnings of conflict over smelter smoke in the 1890s
- Corporate consolidation and the farmer's suites
- Integration into a global corporation
- The United States files suit
- Land exchanges : the environmental controversies draw to a close
- Decades of Anaconda Company hegemony.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781647791995
- 1647791995
- OCLC:
- 1519444951
- Publisher Number:
- 90102619436
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