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

Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917

Michael Punke

352 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction historical history emotional slow-paced
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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. Sparked more than two thousand feet below ground, the fire s...

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