Picher, Oklahoma: Catastrophe, Memory, and Traumavolume 20

by Alison Fields

On May 10, 2008, a tornado struck the northeastern Oklahoma town of Picher, destroying more than one hundred homes and killing six people. It was the final blow to a onetime boomtown already staggering under the weight of its history. The lead and zinc mining that had given birth to the town had also proven its undoing, earning Picher in 2006 the distinction of being the nation's most toxic Superfund site. Recounting the town's dissolution and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080615165X
• ISBN13: 9780806151656
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 2.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.3" x 10.3"