River of Lost Souls: The Science, Politics, and Greed Behind the Gold King Mine Disaster

A vivid historical account...Thompson shines in giving a sense of what it means to love a place that's been designated a 'sacrifice zone.' ​
--PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

Award-winning investigative environmental journalist Jonathan P. Thompson digs into the science, politics, and greed behind the 2015 Gold King Mine disaster, and unearths a litany of impacts wrought by a century and a half of mining, energy development, and fracking in southwestern Colorado. Amid these harsh realities, Thompson explores how a new generation is setting out to make amends.

JONATHAN THOMPSON is a native Westerner with deep roots in southwestern Colorado. He has been an environmental journalist focusing on the American West since he signed on as reporter and photographer at the Silverton Standard & the Miner newspaper in 1996. He has worked and written for High Country News for over a decade, serving as editor-in-chief from 2007 to 2010. He was a Ted Scripps fellow in environmental journalism at the University of Colorado in Boulder, and in 2016 he was awarded the Society of Environmental Journalists' Outstanding Beat Reporting, Small Market. He currently lives in Bulgaria with his wife Wendy and daughters Lydia and Elena.

Author: Jonathan P. Thompson
Publisher: Torrey House Press
Published: 03/06/2018
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781937226831


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 12/18/2017
Foreword 12/26/2017
Library Journal 02/01/2018 pg. 121
Booklist 02/01/2018 pg. 6
Choice 11/01/2018

About the Author
JONATHAN THOMPSON is a native Westerner with deep roots in southwestern Colorado. He has been an environmental journalist focusing on the American West since he signed on as reporter and photographer at the Silverton Standard & the Miner newspaper in 1996. He has worked and written for High Country News for over a decade, serving as editor-in-chief from 2007 to 2010. He was a Ted Scripps fellow in environmental journalism at the University of Colorado in Boulder, and in 2016 he was awarded the Society of Environmental Journalists' Outstanding Beat Reporting, Small Market. He currently lives in Bulgaria with his wife Wendy and daughters Lydia and Elena.