{"product_id":"b081zjb451","title":"A Darkness Lit by Heroes: The Granite Mountain-Speculator Mine Disaster of 1917 -- Butte, Montana","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 2018 High Plains Book Award\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWritten 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAmmons plunges the reader down the mine shafts where the nation's worst hard-rock mining disaster left 168 miners dead. The effect is a lyrical evocation of those involved as Ammons brings the history to vivid life.  -Montana: Magazine of Western History\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":52841495593176,"sku":"YSL72465","price":4.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0835\/3356\/2072\/files\/71DhZJ86xpL._SY1500.jpg?v=1793334891","url":"https:\/\/www.bookmebay.com\/products\/b081zjb451","provider":"BookMebay","version":"1.0","type":"link"}