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

by William B. Secrest, William B. Secrest Sr.

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781884995491
Publisher:	Word Dancer Press
Publication date:	01/01/2006
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.77(d)