Pub Date: August 8, 2006
Dewey: 363.11962234
LCCN: 2005052579
Lexile Code: 0000
Features: Annotated, Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Price on Product, Table of Contents
Target Age Group: 18 to 17
Physical Info: 1.07" H x 9.42" L x 6.44" W ( 1.48 lbs) 352 pages
BISAC Categories:
History | United States | State and Local West AK CA CO HI ID MT NV UT WY | 20th Century | Technology and Engineering | Mining
Description: Recounting the remarkable stories of the men below ground and their families above, this volume focuses on two groups of miners who make the incredible decision to entomb themselves to escape the gas during the North Butte Mine Disaster of 1917 in which 164 miners die.