| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.2

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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. xx, 284 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8061-3682-0.)
The Bunker Hill Company, located in Kellogg, Idaho, operated for nearly a century after its discovery in 1885 to its closure in 1981. For a mine, with a finite amount of ore in the ground, that proved an amazingly long tenure.	1
Katherine G. Aiken, a professor of History at the University of Idaho, Moscow, has done a masterly job in tracing the company's rise, development, and decline. Fortunately for historians, following the closure of Bunker Hill, the company records were placed in the University of Idaho Library Special Collections. That provides a rare opportunity for researching a major American mining company, and Aiken made excellent use of the opportunity.	2
Starting with chapter 1, which covers the era 1885–1903, the author provided readers with an exceptional insider look at the company and the men who worked the mine. After Aiken sets the scene, the two men most responsible for developing the mine and bringing it to prominence, Frederick Bradley and Stanley Easton, take center stage. Well into the 1950s, one, or the other, directed the course of the company's growth and history.	. . .

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