Opportunity, Montana Big Copper, Bad Water, and the Burial of an American Landscape

Name: Opportunity, Montana Big Copper, Bad Water, and the Burial of an American Landscape
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ISBN: 9780807033258

ISBN-10: 0807033251

ISBN-13: 9780807033258

Edition: 2014

Authors: Brad Tyer

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A memoir-meets-expose that examines our fraught relationship with the West and our attempts to clean up a toxic environmental legacyIn 2002, Texas journalist Brad Tyer strapped a canoe on his truck and moved to Montana, a state that has long exerted a mythic pull on America's imagination as an unspoiled landscape. The son of an engineer who reclaimed wastewater, Tyer was looking for a pristine river to call his own. What he found instead was a century's worth of industrial poison clotting the Clark Fork River, a decades-long engineering project to clean it up, and a forgotten town named Opportunity.At the turn of the nineteenth century, Montana exploited the richest copper deposits in the…

Book details

List price: $27.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication date: 3/25/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English