Description
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.
Author: William B. Secrest Jr., William B. Seacrest
Publisher: Linden Publishing
Published: 10/01/2005
Pages: 292
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.36w x 0.77d
ISBN13: 9781884995491
ISBN10: 1884995497
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | State & Local | West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT
- History | United States | 19th Century
- Nature | Natural Disasters