Texas Disasters: True Stories of Tragedy and Survival
The enormity of Texas's many major disasters are an appropriate match for the state's large size. This is an area of the country where tornadoes are a frequent threat, but in addition to the many violent twisters, 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. Twenty dramatic true stories are retold in this well-researched collection, including: >The deadly quarter-mile-wide tornado that roared through the town of Goliad in 1902, killing 114 people, injuring 230, and demolishing 150…
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- ISBN: 978-0-7627-3675-1
- EAN: 9780762736751
- Produktnummer: 1141961
- Verlag: Globe Pequot Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 242 S.
- Masse: H23.0 cm x B15.4 cm x D1.7 cm 431 g
- Auflage: First
- Gewicht: 431
Über den Autor
Mike Cox is the author of a dozen books on Texas history and other subjects. He was the communications manager for the Texas Department of Transportation while Texas absorbed hundreds of thousands of evacuees during Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Before that, he spent fifteen years with the Texas Department of Public Safety as a public information officer and was a newspaper reporter--all good research for writing about disasters and rescue efforts in Texas.
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