| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.4

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Canada and the United States

Katherine G. Aiken. Idaho's Bunker Hill: The Rise and Fall of a Great Mining Company, 1885–1981. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 2005. Pp. xix, 284. $29.95.

This study is a multifaceted account of the rise and fall of the Bunker Hill mining company, skillfully combining business, labor, and environmental history. As legend has it, the original Bunker Hill mining claim was discovered in 1885, thanks to prospector Noah Kellogg's donkey, who inadvertently led him to a rich vein of silver and lead. After a rousing court battle over competing claims, the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining and Concentrating Company was incorporated in 1887. It quickly attracted investors, including William Crocker of California and Cyrus McCormick of Chicago. Under the leadership of engineers Frederick Bradley and Stanly Easton, the company became the leading firm in the Coeur d'Alene mining field of northern Idaho and a national leader in lead, zinc, and silver production. By the 1950s, Bunker Hill attained full vertical integration and boasted the biggest lead smelter in the world. After a Texas-based energy corporation bought Bunker Hill as part of a hostile takeover in 1968, a combination of competitive pressures, falling metals prices, and ongoing environmental lawsuits led to the final closing of the mine and smelter complex in 1981.

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