America's great disasters

by Martin W. Sandler.

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95 pages 2003

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Examines the causes and effects of such American disasters as the sinking of the steamboat Sultana in 1871, the Johnstown Flood, the Dust Bowl, the influenza epidemic of 1918-1919, and the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
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CONTENTS: The Sultana Explosion / The Johnstown Flood / The Dust Bowl / The Wisconsin Forest Fire / The Galveston Hurricane / The Blizzard of '88 / the Influenza Epidemic of 1918-19 / The San Francisco Earthquake / The Mount Saint Helens Eruption.

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