| Book Review | Environmental History, 12.3

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Book Review

Idaho's Bunker Hill: The Rise and Fall of A Great Mining Company, 1885–1981. By Katherine G. Aiken. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2005. xix + 284 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $29.95.

In Idaho's Bunker Hill, Katherine Aiken provides a thorough, yet concise history of one of the United States' most productive silver and lead mining operations, the Bunker Hill Company of Kellogg, Idaho. Premised on the argument that mining is central to the history of the American West, Aiken presents Bunker Hill as "the prototype for the natural resource exploitation and complex capital expansion" that characterized the region (p. xv). Unlike other studies of western mining that focus on the nineteenth century, Aiken's takes place primarily in the twentieth, when environmental conditions became a major source of tension between locals and federal agencies and between workers and owners. As Aiken makes clear, Bunker Hill's miners, managers, and markets were intimately tied to the landscape and resources of northern Idaho, but also had important connections to the region, the nation, and the world.

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