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.
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..
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.
While the Disaster is compelling in its own right, Fire and Brimstone also tells a far broader story striking in its contemporary relevance.
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.
Within three days, one hundred and sixty-four of them would be dead.
Within an hour, more than four hundred men would be locked in a battle to survive.
Sparked more than two thousand feet below ground, the Fire spewed flames, smoke, and poisonous gas through a labyrinth of underground tunnels.
A half-hour before midnight on June 8, 1917, a Fire broke out in the North Butte Mining Company\'s Granite Mountain shaft.
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.
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
