Floodpath : the deadliest man-made disaster of 20th-century America and the making of modern Los Angeles
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Published
New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2016.
Format
Book
Status
Sequim - Nonfiction (Adult)
363.3493 WILKMAN
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363.3493 WILKMAN
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Published
New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2016.
Physical Desc
326 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-310) and index.
Description
"Just before midnight on March 12, 1928, the St. Francis Dam, a twenty-story-high concrete structure just fifty miles north of Los Angeles, suddenly collapsed, releasing a devastating flood that roared fifty-four miles to the Pacific Ocean, destroying everything in its path. It was a horrific catastrophe, yet one which today is virtually forgotten. With research gathered over more than two decades, award-winning writer and filmmaker Jon Wilkman revisits the deluge that claimed nearly five hundred lives."--Book jacket.