Miner child

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	• IDAHO'S BUNKER HILL: THE RISE AND FALL OF A GREAT MINING COMPANY, 1885-1981 Katherine, G Aiken University of Oklahoma Press, 2007 - 308 pages average customer review:based on 1 review view larger image
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Miner child

I was from that area and remember the bunker hill mine very well. I use to go by it on the why to school all through Jr high. It shut down just before I entered high school. I had two brothers that worked there for a while and they did not like it at all. My dad worked in the Sunshine Mine just down the road the uncle bunker. I bought the book because I did not know the history of how it was founded(besides the jackass story) I wanted to know more. This book shows want happen and how greed bought down one of the greatest mines in the world. Good read. Recommand it to any one who enjoy's mining and the history of it.

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For nearly a century, the Bunker Hill Company of Idaho was a leading U.S. mining and smelting corporation that played a key role in the nation's industrial development. At the same time, it was the catalyst for unprecedented labor strife and environmental desecration. In this richly detailed history, Katherine G. Aiken traces Bunker Hill's evolution from the mine's discovery in 1885 to the company's closure in 1981.