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    Good: A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including ...
    Type
    Book
    Narrative Type
    State & Local
    Intended Audience
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    ISBN
    9781401308896
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    Product Identifiers

    Publisher
    Grand Central Publishing
    ISBN-10
    1401308899
    ISBN-13
    9781401308896
    eBay Product ID (ePID)
    57079921

    Product Key Features

    Book Title
    Fire and Brimstone : the North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917
    Number of Pages
    368 Pages
    Language
    English
    Topic
    Mining, United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), United States / 20th Century
    Publication Year
    2007
    Illustrator
    Yes
    Genre
    Technology & Engineering, History
    Author
    Michael Punke
    Format
    Perfect

    Dimensions

    Item Height
    0.9 in
    Item Weight
    10.9 Oz
    Item Length
    8 in
    Item Width
    5.2 in

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    Reviews
    "Compelling If the horrifying account of the fi re and the trapped men is the heart of this yarn, its soul is Punke's historical contextualization of the event. He paints a vivid picture of a city, state and nation in the grip of industrial monopolies."-- Publishers Weekly
    Grade From
    Eighth Grade
    Grade To
    College Graduate Student
    Synopsis
    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., 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 Company?'s ?Granite Mountain? shaft.&   During an effort to improve safety in the mine, a fire sparked more than 2,000 feet below ground, the fire spewed flames, smoke, and poisonous gas up the length of the wood-timbered shaft.&   Tragically, Granite Mountain connected to five other mines through a labyrinth of manways.&   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 is also the broader story of Butte, Montana at the outbreak of WWI.&   The fire would catalyze a two month spasm of disaster, strikes, murder, and ultimately occupation by federal troops.&   &   &   The Anaconda Copper Mining Company had long been a corrupt institution and is still considered today as one of the most abusive corporations in the history of the American West.&   In response to this oppressive corporation, the IWW, a radical labor movement vowed the destruction of this capitalist system.&   And from this political maelstrom and mining disaster rose a Montana lawyer who would shape local and national history., Recounting the remarkable stories of the men below ground and their families above, this volume focuses on two groups of miners who made the incredible decision to entomb themselves to escape the gas during what's known as the North Butte Mine Disaster of 1917 in which 164 miners died.

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