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Fire and Brimstone - The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917 (Paperback)
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Fire and Brimstone - The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917 (Paperback)
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List price R539
Loot Price R477
Discovery Miles 4 770
You Save R62 (12%)
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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.& nbsp; During an effort to improve safety in the mine, a
fire sparked more than 2,000 feet below ground, the fire spewed
flames, smoke, and poisonous gas up the length of the wood-timbered
shaft.& nbsp; Tragically, Granite Mountain connected to five
other mines through a labyrinth of manways.& nbsp; Within an
hour, more than four hundred men would be locked in a battle to
survive.& nbsp; Within three days, one hundred and sixty-four
of them would be dead.& nbsp; Fire and Brimstone is also the
broader story of Butte, Montana at the outbreak of WWI.& nbsp;
The fire would catalyze a two month spasm of disaster, strikes,
murder, and ultimately occupation by federal troops.& nbsp;
& nbsp; & nbsp; The Anaconda Copper Mining Company had long
been a corrupt institution and is still considered today as one of
the most abusive corporations in the history of the American
West.& nbsp; In response to this oppressive corporation, the
IWW, a radical labor movement vowed the destruction of this
capitalist system.& nbsp; And from this political maelstrom and
mining disaster rose a Montana lawyer who would shape local and
national history.
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