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Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917
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Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917 Paperback - 2007

by Michael Punke

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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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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Revenant--the basis for the award-winning film 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.

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  • Title Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917
  • Author Michael Punke
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Grand Central Publishing, Montana
  • Publication date August 28, 2007
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781401308896 / 1401308899
  • Weight 0.68 lbs (0.31 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.25 x 1.1 in (21.34 x 13.34 x 2.79 cm)
  • Age range 17 to 18 years
  • Grade levels 12 - 13
  • Category History - U.S.
  • Dewey Decimal Code 363.119

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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