Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917
Michael Punke, . . Hyperion, $24.95 (338pp) ISBN 978-1-4013-0155-2
In this compelling tale, Punke recounts the grim details of the worst hard-rock mining disaster in United States history. On June 8, 1917, a fire broke out in the main shaft of a huge complex of copper mines 2,000 feet beneath Granite Mountain in Butte, Mont. The fire raged for three days, killing 164 of the 400 or so men at work that day. Punke, a Washington, D.C., lawyer and novelist (
Reviewed on: 05/22/2006
Genre: Nonfiction
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