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History of the Great Flood in Johnstown Pa May 31 1889
Author | : John Stuart Ogilvie |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1889 |
Genre | : Dummies (Bookselling) |
ISBN | : MSU:31293006759116 |
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Johnstown s Flood of 1889
Author | : Neil M. Coleman |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2018-07-23 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9783319952161 |
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Science now reveals the true cause of the dam breach flood that destroyed Johnstown in 1889. The tragic loss of more than 2200 lives was preventable; the initial investigation of the flood was hijacked, delayed, and distorted by powerful members of the industrial elite. This book bridges the gap between history and science, reexamining eyewitness accounts of the flood and historic documents about the investigation, and applying new LiDAR, GPS, and hydraulic studies to solve the mystery – what caused the Great Flood of 1889? The book includes a notable chapter on the “sister” of the South Fork Dam, “The Forgotten Dam” at Hollidaysburg, PA.
Official History of the Johnstown Flood
Author | : Frank Connelly,George C. Jenks |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 1889 |
Genre | : Floods |
ISBN | : UVA:X001542272 |
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History of the Great Flood in Johnstown Pa May 31 1889
Author | : John Stuart Ogilvie |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 1889 |
Genre | : Floods |
ISBN | : OCLC:253655219 |
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Johnstown Flood
Author | : David McCullough |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2007-05-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781416561224 |
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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.
The Johnstown Flood 1889
Author | : Daniel Leathers |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007-11 |
Genre | : Floods |
ISBN | : 1584155701 |
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Find out how the South Fork Dam and heavy rainfall worked together to cause the flood, and see how the nation helped to rebuild the town.
The Johnstown Flood 1889
Author | : Daniel Leathers |
Publsiher | : Mitchell Lane |
Total Pages | : 37 |
Release | : 2020-02-04 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9781545749579 |
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Gertrude Quinn was only six years old when her world was changed forever. In a matter of minutes, she and thousands of other people in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, found themselves fighting for their lives in swirling water that covered their city. Gertrude Quinn was one of the lucky ones. She survived the great Johnstown Flood of 1889. More than 2,200 other people were not as lucky. They died in one of the worst natural disasters in the History of the United States. Even though more than 120 years have passed since this disaster, we can still learn important lessons from the Johnstown Flood. In this book you will find out how the South Fork Dam and heavy rainfall worked together to cause the flood. You will understand the flood better through the stories of people who survived, and see how the nation helped to rebuild the town.
The Johnstown Flood
Author | : Herman Dieck |
Publsiher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2010-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780271045399 |
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