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“THIS PLACE STUNK SO BAD,” says Paul Flory, “and you had that metal taste in your teeth.”
Flory was born in 1970 and grew up in the same part of the country he lives in today: the Coeur d’Alene River Basin of northern Idaho. Beginning in the 1880s and for more than a century, locals have mined this region — also called the Silver Valley — for its abundance of silver, lead and zinc. Some residents can trace their ancestors in the valley back six generations, and “Uncle Bunker” — Bunker Hill, the large mining complex there — was the hand that fed them through all those years.