History of the Great Flood in Johnstown, Pa. , May 31, 1889, by Which Over Ten Thousand Lives Were Lost
Title | History of the Great Flood in Johnstown, Pa. , May 31, 1889, by Which Over Ten Thousand Lives Were Lost PDF eBook |
Author | J. S. Ogilvie |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Pages | 262 |
Release | 2010-11-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0271045388 |
History of the Great Flood in Johnstown, Pa., May 31, 1889
Title | History of the Great Flood in Johnstown, Pa., May 31, 1889 PDF eBook |
Author | John Stuart Ogilvie |
Publisher | |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 1889 |
Genre | Dummies (Bookselling) |
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History of the Great Flood in Johnstown, Pa., May 31, 1889
Title | History of the Great Flood in Johnstown, Pa., May 31, 1889 PDF eBook |
Author | John Stuart Ogilvie |
Publisher | |
Pages | 223 |
Release | 1889 |
Genre | Floods |
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Johnstown Flood
Title | Johnstown Flood PDF eBook |
Author | David McCullough |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 2007-05-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1416561226 |
The stunning story of one of America’s great disasters, a preventable tragedy of Gilded Age America, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough. At the end of the nineteenth century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving for a piece of the nation’s burgeoning industrial prosperity. In the mountains above Johnstown, an old earth dam had been hastily rebuilt to create a lake for an exclusive summer resort patronized by the tycoons of that same industrial prosperity, among them Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and Andrew Mellon. Despite repeated warnings of possible danger, nothing was done about the dam. Then came May 31, 1889, when the dam burst, sending a wall of water thundering down the mountain, smashing through Johnstown, and killing more than 2,000 people. It was a tragedy that became a national scandal. Graced by David McCullough’s remarkable gift for writing richly textured, sympathetic social history, The Johnstown Flood is an absorbing, classic portrait of life in nineteenth-century America, of overweening confidence, of energy, and of tragedy. It also offers a powerful historical lesson for our century and all times: the danger of assuming that because people are in positions of responsibility they are necessarily behaving responsibly.
Report of the State Librarian and Director of Museum of Pennsylvania
Title | Report of the State Librarian and Director of Museum of Pennsylvania PDF eBook |
Author | Pennsylvania State Library and Museum (Harrisburg) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 1892 |
Genre | |
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Official Documents, Comprising the Department and Other Reports Made to the Governor, Senate, and House of Representatives of Pennsylvania
Title | Official Documents, Comprising the Department and Other Reports Made to the Governor, Senate, and House of Representatives of Pennsylvania PDF eBook |
Author | Pennsylvania |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1068 |
Release | 1892 |
Genre | Legislative journals |
ISBN |
Report of the State Librarian
Title | Report of the State Librarian PDF eBook |
Author | Pennsylvania State Library |
Publisher | |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 1892 |
Genre | Pennsylvania |
ISBN |
Includes catalogs of accessions and special bibliographical supplements.