Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917
By Michael Punke.
Description
The Remarkable History by the author of THE REVENANT--now a Major Motion Picture!The worst hard-rock mining disaster in American history began a half hour before midnight on June 8, 1917, when fire broke out in the North Butte Mining Companys Granite Mountain shaft. Sparked more than two thousand feet below ground, the fire spewed flames, smoke, and poisonous gas through a labyrinth of underground tunnels. Within an hour, more than four hundred men would be locked in a battle to survive. Within three days, one hundred and sixty-four of them would be dead.Fire and Brimstone recounts the rema...
ISBN(s)
140130155X, 9781401301552
