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Category : Disaster relief
Languages : en
Pages : 84
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The 1977 Southwestern Pennsylvania Flood
Author: Johnstown-western Pennsylvania Storm and Floods of July 19-20, 1977
Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)Publisher:
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Category : Floods
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Geological Survey Professional Paper
Author: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper
Author: Johnstown Flood
Author: David McCulloughPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416561226
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The stunning story of one of America’s great disasters, a preventable tragedy of Gilded Age America, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough. At the end of the nineteenth century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving for a piece of the nation’s burgeoning industrial prosperity. In the mountains above Johnstown, an old earth dam had been hastily rebuilt to create a lake for an exclusive summer resort patronized by the tycoons of that same industrial prosperity, among them Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and Andrew Mellon. Despite repeated warnings of possible danger, nothing was done about the dam. Then came May 31, 1889, when the dam burst, sending a wall of water thundering down the mountain, smashing through Johnstown, and killing more than 2,000 people. It was a tragedy that became a national scandal. Graced by David McCullough’s remarkable gift for writing richly textured, sympathetic social history, The Johnstown Flood is an absorbing, classic portrait of life in nineteenth-century America, of overweening confidence, of energy, and of tragedy. It also offers a powerful historical lesson for our century and all times: the danger of assuming that because people are in positions of responsibility they are necessarily behaving responsibly.
Geological Survey Professional Paper
Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Summary of Significant Floods in the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, 1970 Through 1989
Author: Charles A. PerryPublisher: Geological Survey (USGS)
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Triumph at the falls
Author: Leland R. JohnsonPublisher:
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Category : Canals
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Water-resources Investigations Report
Author: Ground-water Flow in the Shallow Aquifer System at the Naval Weapons Station Yorktown, Virginia
Author: Barry S. SmithPublisher:
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Category : Groundwater
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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