Thomas Andrews focuses on the environmental and social history of the U.S. West. He is the author of聽Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War聽(Harvard University Press, 2008) and聽Coyote Valley: Deep History in the High Rockies聽(Harvard University Press, 2015). With support from聽National Institutes of Health and National Library of Medicine, he is currently writing a book on the Great Horse Flu of 1872-1873, an outbreak that resulted from a novel influenza virus that emerged outside of Toronto and went on to infect more than 90% of equines in the northern Americas. His interests in the environmental justice field extend from Indigenous Americans and industrial workers to national parks and other-than-human animals.聽
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