Floodpath : the deadliest man-made disaster of 20th-century America and the making of modern Los Angeles / Jon Wilkman.
Wilkman, Jon, author.
2016
TC557.C3 S2495 2016 (Mapit)
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Title
Floodpath : the deadliest man-made disaster of 20th-century America and the making of modern Los Angeles / Jon Wilkman.
Author
Wilkman, Jon, author.
ISBN
9781620409152 (hardcover)
1620409151 (hardcover)
Published
New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2016.
Language
English
Description
326 pages ; 25 cm
Call Number
TC557.C3 S2495 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
363.34/930979493
Summary
"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."--Jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-289) and index.
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