Snow explores and untangles the costs and benefits of a century of mining, milling, and smelting in the Coeur D’Alenes, a twenty-five mile portion of the Idaho panhandle. More than one hundred mines a
When They Hid the Fire examines American social perceptions of electricity as an energy technology that were adopted between the mid-nineteenth and early decades of the twentieth centuries. Arguing th
Field Life examines the practice of science in the field in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains of the American West between the 1860s and the 1910s, when the railroad was the dominant form of long-d
