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The history of Kellogg, Bunker Hill, and Idaho s Coeur d Alenes is a powerful and illustrative example of a broader story: the transformation of one town from classic industrial modernity which paired technological and economic progress with vast and inherent risk to advanced modernity in which human communities shifted their understanding of risk and benefit to critique industrial production. Bradley Snow presents a case study of the trifecta of American modernity which allows us to understand modernity at a deep and meaningful level. Kathryn Morse, Middlebury College

-The history of Kellogg, Bunker Hill, and Idaho's Coeur d'Alenes is a powerful and illustrative example of a broader story: the transformation of one town from classic industrial modernity--which paired technological and economic progress with vast and inherent risk--to advanced modernity in which human communities shifted their understanding of risk and benefit to critique industrial production. Bradley Snow presents a case study of the trifecta of American modernity--which allows us to understand modernity at a deep and meaningful level.- --Kathryn Morse, Middlebury College

Living with Lead provides a detailed assessment of the environmental legacy of the storied Bunker Hill mine and smelter in Kellogg, Idaho. The calculated poisoning of an entire watershed should serve as a cautionary tale in today's era of environmental deregulation. An excellent resource for scholars exploring the history and impacts of natural resource extraction. --Journal of Historical Geography In Living with Lead, Bradley Snow takes us through a harrowing history of humanity's relationship with one of the most poisonous metals ever to see wide use in the modern age. Tracing the dramatic story of one small Northern Rocky Mountain smelter town, Snow reveals how the things we often dismissively term 'raw materials' sometimes control us more than we control them. --Timothy James LeCain, Montana State University The history of Kellogg, Bunker Hill, and Idaho's Coeur d'Alenes is a powerful and illustrative example of a broader story: the transformation of one town from classic industrial modernity--which paired technological and economic progress with vast and inherent risk--to advanced modernity in which human communities shifted their understanding of risk and benefit to critique industrial production. Bradley Snow presents a case study of the trifecta of American modernity--which allows us to understand modernity at a deep and meaningful level. --Kathryn Morse, Middlebury College

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Bradley D. Snow is assistant teaching professor at Montana State University.

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