Winner of the 2018 High Plains Book Award A Darkness Lit by Heroes is the tale of the biggest hard rock mining accident in America. ​Written from the miners\' perspective, A Darkness Lit by Heroes is about the resilience of the human spiri.
Based on 600 pages of eye-witness testimony that was lost for 90 years, Ammons puts readers directly into the Granite Mountain-Speculator Mine in Butte, Montana as a normal shift spiraled into disaster.
Winner of the 2018 High Plains Book Award A Darkness Lit by Heroes is the tale of the biggest hard rock mining accident in America