Timothy James LeCain is an associate professor of history at Montana State University in Bozeman. As a young boy, he visited the gigantic Berkeley Pit mine in Butte with his family, sparking an enduring fascination with these mines that led him to write his first book, MASS DESTRUCTION: THE MEN AND GIANT MINES THAT WIRED AMERICA AND SCARRED THE PLANET (Rutgers, 2009).Dr. LeCain has published widely on the history of mining and the environment in both popular and academic venues. At Montana State University, he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in environmental history, the history of technology, and modern American history. He is currently a Senior Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center in Munich, Germany.Visit his website at: http://www.timothyjameslecain.com/