California Disasters 1800-1900: Firsthand Accounts of Fires, Shipwrecks, Floods, Earthquakes, and Other Historic California Tragedies
SECREST, WILLIAM B.
$22.99
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It was another time. Deadly earthquakes, steamboat explosions, floods, train wrecks, and other tragedies were a part of everyday life in nineteenth-century California. Yet, the men and women of the day licked their wounds, mourned their dead, picked up the pieces, and plunged ahead to build a great prosperous new state that took its place in the forefront of our great Union. This is their stories, in their own words. First-person accounts of the major 19th century California catastrophes. Includes scores of contemporary period photographs and other illustrations.
ISBN: 9781884995491
Author: SECREST, WILLIAM B.
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01/10/2005
RRP: $22.99
Pages: 368
Dimension: 229mm X 152mm
Imprint: Craven Street Books
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