History of the Great Flood in Johnstown, Pa. , May 31, 1889, by Which Over Ten Thousand Lives Were Lost

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

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History of the Great Flood in Johnstown, Pa., May 31, 1889

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)
ISBN

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History of the Great Flood in Johnstown, Pa., May 31, 1889

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
ISBN

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Johnstown Flood

Johnstown Flood
Title Johnstown Flood PDF eBook
Author David McCullough
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 308
Release 2007-05-31
Genre History
ISBN 1416561226

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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.

Second Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore, Including the Additions Made Since 1882

Second Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore, Including the Additions Made Since 1882
Title Second Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore, Including the Additions Made Since 1882 PDF eBook
Author Johns Hopkins University. Peabody Institute. Library
Publisher
Pages 784
Release 1902
Genre Catalogs, Dictionary
ISBN

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Official Documents, Comprising the Department and Other Reports Made to the Governor, Senate, and House of Representatives of Pennsylvania

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

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The Century Book of Facts

The Century Book of Facts
Title The Century Book of Facts PDF eBook
Author Henry Woldmar Ruoff
Publisher
Pages 704
Release 1901
Genre Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN

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