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California Disasters 1800-1900: Firsthand Accounts of Fires, Shipwrecks, Floods, Earthquakes, and Other Historic California Tragedies
by Secrest, William B., Jr.
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Overview
Overview
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.
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Author: Secrest, William B., Jr.
- ISBN: 9781884995491
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 9.02 x 0.77
- Number Of Pages: 292
- Publication Year: 2005