Flood Editions

Reducere. On May 31, 1935, a storm system surged along the Republican River, bursting its banks in a matter of minutes with a roar that could be heard miles ...

Reducere. While cameras rolled, the newly completed Teton Dam collapsed shortly before noon on June 5, 1976. The resulting wall of water, 80 billion gallons ...

Beginning on Easter Sunday, March 23, 1913, torrential rains across the Midwest dropped a record three months of rainfall in four days. Floodwaters...

Publisher: BOA Editions, LimitedAuthor(s): Heather SellersNumber of pages: 88Collection: American Poets ContinuumPublication date: 2022Dimensions: ...

Reducere. Tiffin may be most well known because of the devastation caused by the flood of 1913; the flood took the lives of 19 people in a disaster that lite...

Reducere. DescriptionThis peaceful community loved by thousands of locals was once, in part, a Mexican land grant called New Helvetia, given to John Sutter. ...

Reducere. Literary Nonfiction. Essays. A blend of literary criticism and memoir, Jennifer Moxley's FOR THE GOOD OF ALL, DO NOT DESTROY THE BIRDS recounts a l...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Oceanfront's Cottage Line, the music halls of Seaside Park and dunes so large they dwarfed the old Cape Henry lighthouse are a memor...

Reducere. Beginning in the 1870s, thousands of Bohemians flocked to Cedar Rapids in search of a better life. Czech immigrants courageously overcame the diffi...

Reducere. In the early 1960s, thousands of construction workers and their families came to Oroville, in Northern California, to help build the largest earth-...

Reducere. In this photographic history of Johnstown, readers will enjoy more than two hundred rare images, many published here for the first time, from the c...

DescriptionFounded as Fort Hamilton in 1791, the City of Hamilton was settled by pioneers and immigrants and was forged in steel by her talented wo...

Reducere. About one thousand years ago, a phenomenon occurred in a fertile tract of Mississippi River flood plain known today as the "American Bottom." This ...

Reducere. "The finest flavored beer in the market. Be sure and try, and you will be convinced. Warranted to be the same at all times. Ask for it, drink no ot...

DescriptionThe Johnstown flood on May 31, 1889, virtually demolished the horsecar lines of the Johnstown Passenger Railway Company, resulting in th...

Reducere. As general manager for Erwin, Tennessee-based Clinchfield Railroad, Thomas D. Moore found an eighty-six-year-old vintage 4-6-0 ten-wheeler steam en...

Reducere. With 85 percent of its buildings on the National Register of Historic Places, Galena truly is a place drenched in history. From the ancient burial ...

Reducere. One of the original 27 counties of California, Mariposa County, located on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada and containing more than 900, 000...

After the Civil War, state and national Prohibition galvanized in Atlanta the issues of classism, racism and anti-immigrant sentiment. While many c...

Reducere. DescriptionNestled in the foothills of the Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania are the twin towns of Stroudsburg and East Stroudsburg. Discover the hi...

Reducere. Incorporated in 1909, Huntington Beach remained a sleepy seaside town until the city's legendary oil boom in the 1920s. Wells sprang up overnight, ...

Reducere. DescriptionGeorge Washington first proposed the idea of a canal connecting the Great Lakes to the Ohio-Mississippi River System in 1784. Inspired b...

Reducere. Dorchester was settled in 1630 by Puritans from England, and for over two hundred years it remained a small farming community. However, the arrival...

Reducere. A poetic retelling of Noah's Ark set in the near future, Ceive is a novella in verse that recounts a post-apocalyptic journey aboard a container sh...

Reducere. By the time the final links in the Oregon Coast Highway were made in 1936, the highway stretched 394 miles from Astoria to the border of California...

Located on the shores of Long Island Sound, Norwalk's close proximity to New York City prompted the building of many summer residences and guest co...

Presbyterians from the Irish province of Ulster were among the first to push the wild frontier west and found the city of Pittsburgh. By the 1840s,...

Reducere. A poetic retelling of Noah's Ark set in the near future, Ceive is a novella in verse that recounts a post-apocalyptic journey aboard a container sh...

Reducere. Like the mist rising from San Francisco Bay encircles the towering redwoods, the little-known legends of the East Bay Hills enrich a glorious histo...

Reducere. Melbourne and Eau Gallie tells the story of two pioneer towns and their coming of age during the last century. From tiny villages, whose early sett...

Reducere. Perfect Misfortune and the four previous editions have been about healing and about emotional and physical recovery in the face of personal crisis ...

This delightful book presents fairy tales based on Talmudic and rabbinic literature. Aunt Naomi was interested in compiling the folklore and legend...