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008 970620s1998 nyub b 001 0 eng
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020 $a0805047921 (hb : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)37269491
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050 00 $aF737.B62$bM36 1998
082 00 $a978.6/85$221
100 1 $aManning, Richard,$d1951-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91031913
245 10 $aOne round river :$bthe curse of gold and the fight for the Big Blackfoot /$cRichard Manning.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bHenry Holt,$c1998.
300 $aix, 222 pages :$bmaps ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 211-213) and index.
520 $aSo much of the tortured ecological history of the American West has been played out in microcosm along the banks of the Blackfoot River in western Montana. Generations of abuse - from logging, grazing, mining, and now overdevelopment - have left this once vibrant waterway choked and gasping. And today a new threat looms: a massive gold mine hard by the river's edge.
520 8 $aHere is the biography of a river, and like the best of that genre, it resonates far beyond the life of its particular central character. In telling the river's story, Richard Manning takes us as far back as the Salish tribe, who first settled its valley, on through the years of nation building and the influx of new Americans migrating west, to the new settlers of the nineties - the well-monied urban refugees who bring with them their own brand of waste and destruction.
520 8 $aHe carefully and eloquently chronicles the successive waves of cattle, of axes and chain saws, of bulldozers and dynamite that have bled the life from the river. This is also the story of gold, the lust for which is now the driving force toward what may be the river's ultimate demise. Finally, Manning offers a ground-level view of the battle currently raging in Montana to stop the mine and save the Blackfoot.
651 0 $aBlackfoot River (Mont.)$xDescription and travel.
651 0 $aBlackfoot River (Mont.)$xEnvironmental conditions.
600 10 $aManning, Richard,$d1951-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91031913
650 0 $aLogging$zMontana$zBlackfoot River.
650 0 $aGold mines and mining$zMontana$zBlackfoot River.
852 00 $bglx$hF737.B62$iM36 1998