Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917
By (Author) Michael Punke
HarperCollins Publishers
The Borough Press
25th July 2016
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
History: specific events and topics
Historical fiction
War, combat and military adventure fiction
Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss
363.1196223430978668
Physical Properties
Paperback
368
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 23mm
260g
Description
From the #1 international bestselling author of The Revenant the book that inspired the award-winning movie comes the remarkable true story of the worst mining disaster in American history.
In 1917, the lives of a company of miners changed forever when the underground labyrinth of tunnels in which they worked burst into flames. 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.
Reviews
Compelling if horrifying account of the fire and the trapped men is the heart of this yarn, its soul is Punkes historical contextualization PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Author Bio
Michael Punke serves as the U.S. Ambassador to the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. He has also served on the White House National Security Council staff and on Capitol Hill. He was formerly the history correspondent for Montana Quarterly and an adjunct professor at the University of Montana. He is the author of Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917, and Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West. His family home is in Montana.
