Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917 by Punke, Michael
Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917 by Punke, Michael

Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917

The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, The Revenant -- basis for the award-winning motion...
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Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917 by Punke, Michael

Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917

$45.88
Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917 by Punke, Michael

Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917

$45.88
Author: Michael Punke
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, The Revenant -- basis for the award-winning motion picture starring Leonardo DiCaprio -- tells the remarkable story of the worst hard-rock mining disaster in American history.

A half-hour before midnight on June 8, 1917, a fire broke out in the North Butte Mining Company's 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 remarkable stories of both the men below ground and their families above, focusing on two groups of miners who made the incredible decision to entomb themselves to escape the gas. While the disaster is compelling in its own right, Fire and Brimstone also tells a far broader story striking in its contemporary relevance. Butte, Montana, on the eve of the North Butte disaster, was a volatile jumble of antiwar protest, an abusive corporate master, seething labor unrest, divisive ethnic tension, and radicalism both left and right. It was a powder keg lacking only a spark, and the mine fire would ignite strikes, murder, ethnic and political witch hunts, occupation by federal troops, and ultimately a battle over presidential power.

Author: Michael Punke
Publisher: Hyperion Books
Published: 08/01/2007
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781401308896
Audience: Young Adult

About the Author
Michael Punke serves as the U.S. Ambassador to the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. He has also served on the White House National Security Council staff and on Capitol Hill. He was formerly the history correspondent for Montana Quarterly, and an adjunct professor at the University of Montana. He is the author of The Revenant and Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West. His family home is in Montana.
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