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Book Review


Smoke Wars: Anaconda Copper, Montana Air Pollution, and the Courts, 1890–1924. By Donald MacMillan. (Helena: Montana Historical Society, 2000. viii, 296 pp. Cloth, $40.00, ISBN 0-917298-62-4. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-917298-65-9.)

As the current debate grows between energy development and environmental protection, Donald MacMillan's study of Butte in Progressive Era Montana serves as an important lesson on the relationships between industry, environment, and government. First written as a dissertation on the eve of the 1970s energy crisis that brought a new wave of industrial growth and pollution to the state, Smoke Wars was edited following the author's 1996 death and published posthumously. Despite its age, the book still contributes to our understanding of power politics in the American West. . . .


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