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A memoir-meets-exposé that examines our fraught relationship with the West and our attempts to clean up a toxic environmental legacy
 
Montana—dubbed Big Sky Country and the Last Best Place—has long exerted a mythic pull on the American imagination as an unspoiled landscape. But behind the slogans lies a darker narrative about the brutal extraction of copper. The misleadingly named town of Opportunity was exploited first by the copper barons, who built the hamlet on wetlands doubling as a heavy-metal waste dump, and more recently by affluent exurbanites and well-meaning environmentalists with plans to restore the nearby Clark Fork River to its “natural” state. Opportunity, Montana is a story of progress and sacrifice, of copper and water, of father and son, and of our attempts to redeem the mistakes of the past.