Fodor's Exploring Japan
All the Great Sights Plus the History & Anecdotes That Bring Them to Life With Practical Tips & Full-Color Maps & Photos - Fourth Edition
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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. Sparked by a tragic accident more than two thousand feet below ground, a fire in the Granite Mountain shaft 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." "While the disaster is compelling in its own right, Fire and Brimstone also tells a far broader story. 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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Fodor's Exploring Japan, Fodor's Travel Publications Inc., Wolfgang Bauer
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 2003
- Rilegatura
- (In brossura)
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- Titolo
- Fodor's Exploring Japan
- Sottotitolo
- All the Great Sights Plus the History & Anecdotes That Bring Them to Life With Practical Tips & Full-Color Maps & Photos - Fourth Edition
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Editore
- Fodor's
- Pubblicato
- 2003
- Formato
- In brossura
- Pagine
- 288
- ISBN10
- 1400012198
- ISBN13
- 9781400012190
- Serie
- Valutazione
- 3 su 5
- Descrizione
- "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. Sparked by a tragic accident more than two thousand feet below ground, a fire in the Granite Mountain shaft 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." "While the disaster is compelling in its own right, Fire and Brimstone also tells a far broader story. 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."--BOOK JACKET.