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The Whiskey Row Fire of 1900
9781467143158
Regular price $23.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%The Wreck of the Old 97
9781596298767
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%With Fast Mail train No. 97 an hour behind schedule, locomotive engineer Steve Broady, according to legend, swore to "put her in Spencer on time" or "put her in Hell."
Through eyewitness reports and court testimonies, historian Larry Aaron expertly pieces together the events of September 27, 1903, at Danville, Virginia, when the Old 97 plummeted off a forty-five-foot trestle into the ravine below. With more twists and turns than the railroad tracks on which the Old 97 ran, this book chronicles the story of one of the most famous train wrecks in American history, as well as the controversy surrounding "The Wreck of the Old 97," that most famous ballad, which secured the Old 97 a place within the annals of American folklore.
The Wyoming Blizzard of 1949
9781625859358
Regular price $23.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Tippecanoe County and the 1913 Flood
9781467147583
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%These untold stories and never-before-seen images explore the human drama of the 1913 Flood as it unfolded in Tippecanoe County, Indiana.
Heralding the coming spring, the weather forecast promised a warm and sunny Easter in 1913. Little did the citizens of Tippecanoe County realize that a furious deluge would cause the Wabash River to swell to an ungovernable and lethal height. Bridges collapsed, whole buildings came unmoored from their foundations and washed away, and heroic rescue attempts saved lives and cost others.
Authors and retired Purdue professors Pete Bill and Arnold Sweet describe the travails of communities suddenly cut off from the rest of the world and facing a natural disaster that gripped twenty states.
Train Crash at Crush, Texas
9781467139342
Regular price $24.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%When the Levee Breaks:
9781609499426
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Wreck of the Faithful Steward on Delaware's False Cape, The
9781467153560
Regular price $23.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Yellow Fever on Galveston Island
9781467146555
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Jan Johnson provides a definitive account of Galveston's fight against outbreaks of Yellow Fever, which transformed an island paradise into the City of Dreadful Death.
In the summer of Galveston's founding year, a mysterious malady accompanied by black vomit descended upon the inhabitants. Names for the devastating plague came quick and fast as the body count rose. Saffron Scourge. Bronze John. Yellow Jack. Yellow Fever. The disease's cause and cure remained elusive, as did the medical institutions Galveston would need treat the illness. Four thousand souls perished in nine epidemics between 1839 and 1867. By the time of Galveston's final Yellow Fever outbreak in 1903, however, residents were better informed and equipped. Discover the key figures and pivotal events of the island city's experience with the mosquito-borne disease.