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

by William B. Secrest

Book 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1884995497
• ISBN13: 9781884995491
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Linden Publishing
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.0"