California Disasters 1800-1900: Firsthand Accounts of Fires, Shipwrecks, Floods, Earthquakes, and Other Historic California Tragedies - Couverture souple

Secrest, William B

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1884995497 ISBN 13 : 9781884995491

Editeur : Linden Publishing Co Inc, 2005

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Following stints as a Marine rifleman in the Korean War and an art director for an advertising firm, William B. Secrest started researching and writing Western history in the early 1960s. Early in his history career, Secrest realized how his home state has consistently been neglected in the Western genre and concentrated almost exclusively on early California subjects. He has produced hundreds of articles for such publications as Westways, Montana, True West, and The American West, while publishing seven monographs on early California themes.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Linden Publishing Co Inc
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1884995497
• ISBN 13: 9781884995491
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 368
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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