A Darkness Lit by Heroes

The Granite Mountain-Speculator Mine Disaster of 1917

Doug Ammons

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English

Water Nymph Press
20 November 2019

Social impact of disasters; Aid & relief programmes; Mining technology & engineering

Winner of the 2018 High Plains Book Award

A Darkness Lit by Heroes is the tale of the biggest hard rock mining accident in America. Based on 600 pages of eye-witness testimony that was lost for 90 years, Ammons puts readers directly into the Granite Mountain-Speculator Mine in Butte, Montana as a normal shift spiraled into disaster.

Written from the miners' perspective, A Darkness Lit by Heroes is about the resilience of the human spirit, the love built from the bonds of shared danger, and the ability of people to rise up when all hope is gone and light even the greatest darkness.

By: Doug Ammons
Imprint: Water Nymph Press
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 327g
ISBN: 9780692900420
ISBN 10: 069290042X
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 20 November 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for A Darkness Lit by Heroes: The Granite Mountain-Speculator Mine Disaster of 1917

"""Ammons plunges the reader down the mine shafts wehre the nation's worst hard-rock mining disaster left 168 miners dead. The effect is a lyrical evocation of those invovled as Ammons brings the history to vivid life."" --Montana: Magazine of Western History"