Leech book explores 'city that ate itself'
Growing up in Bozeman in the 1980s, Brian James Leech knew little about the Mining City except its stigma.
¡°Some of my earliest experiences in Butte were things like going over for soccer games and being told that we should be concerned about drinking the water,¡± said the Å·ÖÞ±ÍøͶ_Å·ÖÞ±ÍâΧapp-Ͷע¹ÙÍø associate professor of history.
He questioned those claims even then, as a kid, and that they made him curious for real answers about how Butte went from a thriving home to a booming mining economy to a shrinking town infamous for the toxic pit located near its heart.
Some two decades, one doctorate, and 400 pages later, Dr. Leech has produced his answer. It¡¯s called ¡°The City that Ate Itself: Butte, Montana and Its Expanding Berkeley Pit.¡±