Disastrous Floods And The Demise Of Steel In Johnstown

Author : Pat Farabaugh
Publisher : History Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1540250148

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Disastrous Floods and the Demise of Steel in Johnstown by Pat Farabaugh Pdf

Johnstown is synonymous with floodwaters and steel. When the city was decimated by a flood of biblical proportions in 1889, it was considered one of the worst natural disasters in American history and gained global attention. Sadly, that deluge was only the first of three major floods to claim lives and wreak havoc in the region. The destruction in the wake of the St. Patrick's Day flood in 1936 was the impetus for groundbreaking federal and local flood control measures. Multiple dam failures, including the Laurel Run Dam in July 1977, left a flooded Johnstown with a failing steel industry in ruins. Author Pat Farabaugh charts the harrowing history of Johnstown's great floods and the effects on its economic lifeblood.

Author : Pat Farabaugh
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439673799

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Disastrous Floods and the Demise of Steel in Johnstown by Pat Farabaugh Pdf

Johnstown is synonymous with floodwaters and steel. When the city was decimated by a flood of biblical proportions in 1889, it was considered one of the worst natural disasters in American history and gained global attention. Sadly, that deluge was only the first of three major floods to claim lives and wreak havoc in the region. The destruction in the wake of the St. Patrick's Day flood in 1936 was the impetus for groundbreaking federal and local flood control measures. Multiple dam failures, including the Laurel Run Dam in July 1977, left a flooded Johnstown with a failing steel industry in ruins. Author Pat Farabaugh charts the harrowing history of Johnstown's great floods and the effects on its economic lifeblood.

Author : Bruce J. Siwy
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439676479

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Jailing the Johnstown Judge by Bruce J. Siwy Pdf

In 1988, Judge Joe O'Kicki was regarded by his peers as one of the most brilliant legal minds in the United States. He was newly re-married, sworn in as the president judge of a Pennsylvania county and on the fast track to a federal bench.... Silently, however, a state police vice unit was in the midst of covert operation into O'Kicki's personal affairs. The judge would be accused of soliciting bribes, frequenting brothels and running the county as if he were a "battleship commander." Later he'd concoct a plan to flee the country and exact revenge on his enemies. strongSet in the aftermath of the 1977 Johnstown flood and including courtroom testimony, the memos of whistleblowers, contemporary interviews and excerpts from O'Kicki's unfinished tell-all memoir, "Jailing the Johnstown Judge" is a fresh examination of the extraordinary Western Pennsylvania case that attained international infamy.

Author : Frank Connelly,George C. Jenks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Floods
ISBN : UVA:X001542272

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Official History of the Johnstown Flood by Frank Connelly,George C. Jenks Pdf

Author : David McCullough
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781416561224

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Johnstown Flood by David McCullough Pdf

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.

Author : James H. Walker
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271046358

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The Johnstown Horror!!! Or, Valley of Death, Being a Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin by James H. Walker Pdf

Sensationalized history can be credited with inspiring generations of truth-seeking experts and enthusiasts. The tragedy of the Johnstown Flood was an oft-exploited event as writers and publishers hawked hastily written articles in original form or pirated collections. Where many of the articles lacked fact, they were rife with exaggeration and imagination. James Herbert Walker published one of the very first of these books, The Johnstown Horror, a pamphlet of some 40 pages. Experts cite the book as being sold in New York within a week of the disaster. Though the structure suggests the stories were gathered at rail stations in an apparent journey to the site, there has been debate whether Walker ever traveled to Johnstown. Yet the collection features accounts that do not appear in other publications following the flood. Later, expanded editions swelled to over four hundred pages and included well-crafted woodcuts. As the flood occurred near the end of the nineteenth century, the engraved drawings are often generously labeled as remnants of Victorian art. It is not clear whether the inclusion of the cuts was an aesthetic or monetary decision, considering the period's developments in photography. The final, massive collection of individual stories makes the book memorable, ranging from the accusations levied against wealthy Pittsburgh industrialists to the emergence of the Red Cross. So many unique details and personal chronicles capture the frantic mentality of a town, state, and nation trying to make sense of natural and yet not-so-natural disaster.

Author : James Herbert Walker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Dam failures
ISBN : NYPL:33433081909792

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The Johnstown Horror!!!, Or, Valley of Death by James Herbert Walker Pdf

Author : Herman Dieck
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780271045399

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The Johnstown Flood by Herman Dieck Pdf

Author : Emma Huddleston
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781532176586

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The Johnstown Flood by Emma Huddleston Pdf

In 1889, a downpour of rain caused the South Fork Dam to collapse. A huge wave of water rushed into Johnstown, killing thousands of people. The Johnstown Floodexamines the scope of the disaster, its causes, and how people can keep a similar disaster from happening again. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and helpful back matter give readers a clear look at this subject. Features include a table of contents, infographics, a glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Core Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Author : Willis Fletcher Johnson
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465572240

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History of the Johnstown Flood Including all the Fearful Record by Willis Fletcher Johnson Pdf

Author : Richard A. Gregory
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781456860295

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The Bosses Club by Richard A. Gregory Pdf

The Johnstown Flood is an iconic tragedy in our nation ́s history, like the Chicago Fire, the sinking of the Titanic or the San Francisco earthquake. Many books have been written about the devastating 1889 Johnstown Flood, but few about the period before or after the flood: why did the town develop in such a remote valley and why didn ́t those who livied below the dangerous dam do something about it? My book, "The Bosses Club", answers those questions, but more importantly illuminates often overlooked circumstances that contributed to the origin for the catastrophe, like the Pennsylvania Canal and Pennsylvania Railroad. How their rapid development set the stage and led to the rivaly between Cambria Iron Company and Carnegie to dominate the burgeoning Steel industry.

Author : Herman Dieck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Travel
ISBN : 133361683X

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The Johnstown Flood by Herman Dieck Pdf

Author : James H. Walker
Publisher : Metalmark
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0271024801

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The Johnstown Horror!!! by James H. Walker Pdf

Sensationalized history can be credited with inspiring generations of truth-seeking experts and enthusiasts. The tragedy of the Johnstown Flood was an oft-exploited event as writers and publishers hawked hastily written articles in original form or pirated collections. Where many of the articles lacked fact, they were rife with exaggeration and imagination. James Herbert Walker published one of the very first of these books, The Johnstown Horror, a pamphlet of some 40 pages. Experts cite the book as being sold in New York within a week of the disaster. Though the structure suggests the stories were gathered at rail stations in an apparent journey to the site, there has been debate whether Walker ever traveled to Johnstown. Yet the collection features accounts that do not appear in other publications following the flood. Later, expanded editions swelled to over four hundred pages and included well-crafted woodcuts. As the flood occurred near the end of the nineteenth century, the engraved drawings are often generously labeled as remnants of Victorian art. It is not clear whether the inclusion of the cuts was an aesthetic or monetary decision, considering the period's developments in photography. The final, massive collection of individual stories makes the book memorable, ranging from the accusations levied against wealthy Pittsburgh industrialists to the emergence of the Red Cross. So many unique details and personal chronicles capture the frantic mentality of a town, state, and nation trying to make sense of natural and yet not-so-natural disaster.

Author : George Titus Ferris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Floods
ISBN : UCSD:31822031031966

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The Complete History of the Johnstown and Conemaugh Valley Flood by George Titus Ferris Pdf

Author : David G. McCullough
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Floods
ISBN : OCLC:51319772

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The Johnstown Flood by David G. McCullough Pdf