Format:
Online-Ressource (289 p)
Edition:
2nd ed
ISBN:
9781493013166
Series Statement:
Disasters Series
Content:
True accounts of major disasters in Texas history are retold in this engagingly written collection. In this part of the country tornadoes are a frequent threat, but in addition to the many violent twisters, Texas residents have experienced fires, floods, drought, blizzards, shipwrecks, and other devastating events, including a yellow fever epidemic in 1867, which earned that year the grim moniker ""The Year of Death."" Each story reveals not only the circumstances surrounding the disaster and the magnitude of the devastation but also the courage and ingenuity displayed by those who survived an
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Contents; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1 "MOST OF US WILL PERISH" Lost Spanish Fleet; Chapter 2 YELLOW JACK CAME TO TEXAS The Year of Death; Chapter 3 "THE TOWN IS GONE" Indianola Hurricanes; Chapter 4 "ALL WASHED AWAY" Ben Ficklin Flood; Chapter 5 A CITY IN RUINS Galveston Hurricane; Chapter 6 "GOD SEEMED NIGH" Goliad Tornado; Chapter 7 THE END OF THE LINE Locomotive 704 Explosion; Chapter 8 FIRE STRIKES TWICE Paris Goes Up in Flames; Chapter 9 DEADLY DROUGHT-BREAKER Central Texas Flood; Chapter 10 "BLOWN AWAY" Rocksprings Tornado
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Chapter 11 THE DAY A GENERATION DIED New London SchoolExplosionChapter 12 DEADLIEST FIRE IN TEXAS Houston's Gulf Hotel Blaze; Chapter 13 FUEL TO THE FIRE Texas City Explosion; Chapter 14 "THEY'RE CATCHING HELL" Waco Tornado; Chapter 15 RECORD-SETTING SNOWFALL Panhandle Blizzard; Chapter 16 BUILDING THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE MYTH SS Marine Sulphur Queen Mystery; Chapter 17 FLASH FLOOD Tragedy in Terrell County; Chapter 18 TERRIBLE TUESDAY Wichita Falls Tornado; Chapter 19 "HORIZONTAL TORNADOES" The Crash of Delta 191; Chapter 20 ONE WRITER'S EXPERIENCE Hurricane Ike
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Chapter 21 A COMMUNITY COMES TOGETHER West ExplosionAppendix: Other Major Texas Disasters; Bibliography; Ab out the Author
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781493013173
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781493013166
Additional Edition:
Print version Texas Disasters : True Stories of Tragedy and Survival
Language:
English
Keywords:
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