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

by Doug Ammons

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069290042X
• ISBN13: 9780692900420
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Water Nymph Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"