Fire and Brimstone by Michael Punke

Fire and Brimstone by Michael Punke

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.

Michael Punke grew raised in Wyoming, on the North Platte River. He worked as a living history interpreter at Fort Laramie National Historic Park for three summers while he was a teenager. Working for a Montana senator and serving on the White House Staff are among his professional accomplishments. With his wife and two children, he lives in Montana.

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ISBN 13	9781401308896
ISBN 10	1401308899
Titel	Fire and Brimstone
Autor	Michael Punke
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Hyperion Books
Erscheinungsjahr	2007-08-14
Seitenanzahl	368
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