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The author of the number-one New York Times best vendor The Revenant - the foundation for the award-winning film starring Leonardo DiCaprio - says the remarkable account of the most severe hard-rock mining catastrophe in American background. The most severe hard-rock mining catastrophe in American background began a 1 / 2 hour before midnight on June 8, 1917, when flames broke out in the North Butte Mining Company's Granite Pile shaft. Sparked more than 2,000 feet below earth, the flames spewed flames, smoke cigars, and poisonous gas by having a labyrinth of underground tunnels. Within an hour more than 400 men would be locked in a fight to endure. Within three times 164 of these would be deceased. Open fire and Brimstone recounts the exceptional stories of both the men below earth and their own families above, concentrating on two sets of miners who made the incredible decision to entomb themselves to escape the gas. While the disaster is convincing in its own right, Open fire and Brimstone also says a far broader account striking in its modern day relevance. Butte, Montana, on the eve of the North Butte catastrophe, was a volatile jumble of antiwar protest, an abusive commercial master, seething labor unrest, divisive ethnic tension, and radicalism both remaining and right. It was a natural powder keg lacking only a spark, and the mine flames would ignite strikes, murder, ethnic and politics witch hunts, profession by federal soldiers, and ultimately a fight over presidential electricity.
