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Title: Smoke Wars: Anaconda Copper, Montana Air Pollution, and the Courts, 1890-1924 by Donald Macmillan ISBN: 0-917298-62-4 Publisher: Montana Historical Society Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $40.00

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Rating: 5
Summary: The story of citizens banding together to fight
Comment: Smoke Wars: Anaconda Copper, Montana Air Pollution, And The Courts, 1890-1920 was originally Montana Historian Donald MacMillan's Ph.D. dissertation. When MacMillan died in 1996, his dissertation was published posthumously with the addition of an introduction by William L. Lang (Director, Center for Columbia River History, Washington State Historical Society, Washington State University-Vancouver. Now brought back into print by the Montana Historical Society Press, Smoke Wars begins in the 1880s when copper companies in Butte processed ore by roasting it in open-air heaps and created dense clouds of low-lying, noxious smoke. MacMillan vividly depicts the history and effects of this technology upon the surrounding community and includes a narrative of a visit to butte in 1885 by Granville Stuart, one of Montana's early pioneers and a visiting dignitary from England, who gave an eye-witness account of what he saw. This is also the story of citizens banding together to fight the polluting activities of the Amalgamated Copper Company, and the legal and publicity battles that ensued for years. This 304 page history is enhanced with three maps and six illustrations and is a highly recommended contribution to American History and Environmental Studies supplemental reading lists and reference collections. Smoke Wars is also available in a hardcover edition (091729862-4, ...).

Rating: 5
Summary: An exhaustive environmental history of Butte and Anaconda
Comment: Smoke Wars: Anaconda Copper, Montana Air Pollution, And The Courts 1890-1920 is an exhaustive environmental history of the copper mining and smelting communities of Butte and Anaconda, Montana, which today constitutes the largest Superfund cleanup site in the United States. Historian Donald MacMillan begins with the fight in Butte in 1890 to abolish heap roasting (a process that created dense clouds of low-lying, noxious smoke and caused death rates in Butte to exceed those of New York City in the 18803). Smelting in Anaconda led to the second phase of the "smoke wars" with livestock and crops dying from the exposure to the arsenic and sulphur dioxide released from the tall stacks of the Anaconda Reduction Works. Then the Federal Government finally stepped in to protest the damage to the national forest by uncontrolled toxic emissions. Smoke Wars is an impressively researched, accessibly written, highly recommended, landmark study of the issues of corporate responsibility, the rights of citizens, the costs of industrialization, and the relative value of the environment -- all of which are elements in today's continuing national debate over the needs of mining and manufacturing with those of the environment and public health.