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Author : Jim Liggett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781734488425
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (884 download)
Download or read book Arizona's Worst Disaster written by Jim Liggett and published by . This book was released on 2020-12 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A technical recap of why the Walnut Grove Dam failed in 1890.
Author : James A. Liggett
Publisher : Pathfinder Publishing of California
ISBN 13 : 9780976559122
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (591 download)
Download or read book Arizona's Worst Disaster written by James A. Liggett and published by Pathfinder Publishing of California. This book was released on 2009 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carole Marsh
Publisher : Carole Marsh Books
ISBN 13 : 0793301157
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (933 download)
Download or read book Arizona's Disasters & Catastrophes! written by Carole Marsh and published by Carole Marsh Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carole Marsh
Publisher : Carole Marsh Books
ISBN 13 : 0793301149
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (933 download)
Download or read book Arizona's (Most Devastating!) Disasters and (Most Calamitous!) Catastrophies! written by Carole Marsh and published by Carole Marsh Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tim Z. Hernandez
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816536082
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)
Download or read book All They Will Call You written by Tim Z. Hernandez and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2017-01-28 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All They Will Call You is the harrowing account of “the worst airplane disaster in California’s history,” which claimed the lives of thirty-two passengers, including twenty-eight Mexican citizens—farmworkers who were being deported by the U.S. government. Outraged that media reports omitted only the names of the Mexican passengers, American folk icon Woody Guthrie penned a poem that went on to become one of the most important protest songs of the twentieth century, “Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (Deportee).” It was an attempt to restore the dignity of the anonymous lives whose unidentified remains were buried in an unmarked mass grave in California’s Central Valley. For nearly seven decades, the song’s message would be carried on by the greatest artists of our time, including Pete Seeger, Dolly Parton, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, and Joan Baez, yet the question posed in Guthrie’s lyrics, “Who are these friends all scattered like dry leaves?” would remain unanswered—until now. Combining years of painstaking investigative research and masterful storytelling, award-winning author Tim Z. Hernandez weaves a captivating narrative from testimony, historical records, and eyewitness accounts, reconstructing the incident and the lives behind the legendary song. This singularly original account pushes narrative boundaries, while challenging perceptions of what it means to be an immigrant in America, but more importantly, it renders intimate portraits of the individual souls who, despite social status, race, or nationality, shared a common fate one frigid morning in January 1948.
Author : Greg Hawk
Publisher : Desert Roamer Press
ISBN 13 : 9781734488401
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (884 download)
Download or read book Random Tangents: Embracing Adventures in Life written by Greg Hawk and published by Desert Roamer Press. This book was released on 2020-04-17 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Hawk lies on the bottom of the pool paralyzed he realizes the gypsy was right again. How long can he hold his breath before someone notices? Will he be able to pull through this to finish the remaining predictions? Greg Hawk's memoir of a life's adventure takes a drastic turn at the end of a divorce as he listens to a gypsy lady in New Zealand predict things on the path ahead. Every obstacle on his path in life has put him on another tangent of learning and struggle, at times driving him to the edge of defeat. During these years, death seemed to be a constant companion as he witnessed it, as well as facing it personally. As a soldier, a husband, a divorcee, a partner of a successful construction business in Denver, owner of Fantasy Dive Charters in Australia, to being a treasure hunter in the mountains and desert of the Southwest, he faced many self-imposed challenges." Random Tangents is a celebration of a life well-lived, of obstacles overcome, of the triumph of spirit. And let's face it, sometimes a little luck."
Author : Brendan McDonough
Publisher : Hachette+ORM
ISBN 13 : 0316308153
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)
Download or read book Granite Mountain written by Brendan McDonough and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story behind the events that inspired the major motion picture Only the Brave. A "unique and bracing" (Booklist) first-person account by the sole survivor of Arizona's disastrous 2013 Yarnell Hill Fire, which took the lives of 19 "hotshots" -- firefighters trained specifically to battle wildfires. Brendan McDonough was on the verge of becoming a hopeless, inveterate heroin addict when he, for the sake of his young daughter, decided to turn his life around. He enlisted in the Granite Mountain Hotshots, a team of elite firefighters based in Prescott, Arizona. Their leader, Eric Marsh, was in a desperate crunch after four hotshots left the unit, and perhaps seeing a glimmer of promise in the skinny would-be recruit, he took a chance on the unlikely McDonough, and the chance paid off. Despite the crew's skepticism, and thanks in large part to Marsh's firm but loving encouragement, McDonough unlocked a latent drive and dedication, going on to successfully battle a number of blazes and eventually win the confidence of the men he came to call his brothers. Then, on June 30, 2013, while McDonough -- "Donut" as he'd been dubbed by his team--served as lookout, they confronted a freak, 3,000-degree inferno in nearby Yarnell, Arizona. The relentless firestorm ultimately trapped his hotshot brothers, tragically killing all 19 of them within minutes. Nationwide, it was the greatest loss of firefighter lives since the 9/11 attacks. Granite Mountain is a gripping memoir that traces McDonough's story of finding his way out of the dead end of drugs, finding his purpose among the Granite Mountain Hotshots, and the minute-by-minute account of the fateful day he lost the very men who had saved him. A harrowing and redemptive tale of resilience in the face of tragedy, Granite Mountain is also a powerful reminder of the heroism of the people who put themselves in harm's way to protect us every day.
Author : Wesley Treat
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1402739389
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (27 download)
Download or read book Weird Arizona written by Wesley Treat and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each fun and intriguing volume offers more than 250 illustrated pages of places where tourists usually don't venture, including oddball curiosities, local legends, crazy characters, and peculiar roadside attractions.
Author : Lynn Downey
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439649898
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Wickenburg written by Lynn Downey and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-02 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once known as the Dude Ranch Capital of the World, Wickenburg, Arizona, has had many lives since its founding during the Civil War years. When German immigrant Henry Wickenburg discovered the Vulture Gold Mine in the fall of 1863 and put down roots as a miner and farmer, he also set down the beginnings of the city that would be named in his honor. Early residents and visitors included miners, ranchers, gunslingers, newspaper editors, and saloon keepers. Families made their way to town in the early 20th century and opened businesses, established churches and a library, and sent their children to local schools. In the 1930s, dude ranches blossomed in and around the city limits and tourists were enchanted by the real Wild West ambience. As the century progressed, people remained in town for generations, while newcomers regularly moved in to enjoy Wickenburgs desert setting and modern amenities.
Author : Barbara Kingsolver
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801465095
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Holding the Line written by Barbara Kingsolver and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-26 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holding the Line, Barbara Kingsolver's first non-fiction book, is the story of women's lives transformed by an a signal event. Set in the small mining towns of Arizona, it is part oral history and part social criticism, exploring the process of empowerment which occurs when people work together as a community. Like Kingsolver's award-winning novels, Holding the Line is a beautifully written book grounded on the strength of its characters. Hundreds of families held the line in the 1983 strike against Phelps Dodge Copper in Arizona. After more than a year the strikers lost their union certification, but the battle permanently altered the social order in these small, predominantly Hispanic mining towns. At the time the strike began, many women said they couldn't leave the house without their husband's permission. Yet, when injunctions barred union men from picketing, their wives and daughters turned out for the daily picket lines. When the strike dragged on and men left to seek jobs elsewhere, women continued to picket, organize support, and defend their rights even when the towns were occupied by the National Guard. "Nothing can ever be the same as it was before," said Diane McCormick of the Morenci Miners Women's Auxiliary. "Look at us. At the beginning of this strike, we were just a bunch of ladies."
Author : Bob Cavnar
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603583173
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Disaster on the Horizon written by Bob Cavnar and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10-22 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disaster on the Horizon is a behind-the-scenes investigative look at the worst oil well accident in US history, which led to the current environmental and economic catastrophe on the Gulf Coast. Cavnar uses his 30 years in the business to take readers inside the disaster, exposing the decisions leading up to the blowout and the immediate aftermath. It includes personal accounts of the survivors, assembled from testimony during various investigations, as well as personal interviews with survivors, witnesses, and family. It also provides a layman's look at the industry, its technology, people, and risks. It deconstructs events and decisions made by BP, Transocean, and the US Government before and after the disaster, and the effects of those decisions, both good and bad. Cavnar explains what happened in the Gulf, explores how we arrived at deep water drilling in the first place and then charts a course for how to avoid these disasters in the future.
Author : United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Annual Report FY ... of the Chief of Engineers on Civil Works Activities written by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carole Marsh
Publisher : Carole Marsh Books
ISBN 13 : 079338835X
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (933 download)
Download or read book Arizona Hot Zones! Viruses, Diseases, and Epidemics in Our State's History written by Carole Marsh and published by Carole Marsh Books. This book was released on 1998-09 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Don Pendleton
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497685834
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)
Download or read book Arizona Ambush written by Don Pendleton and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-12-16 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the mob opens up a drug pipeline, the Executioner comes to shut it off Far from the lights of the city, in the desert near the Mexican border, the mob has erected a sprawling compound where planes can land undetected. This will be the heart of the Arizona corridor—a drug-smuggling route that will dwarf even the infamous French connection. And Mack Bolan will kill to keep the operation off the ground. Wearing a black jumpsuit, his belt full of ammunition, the Executioner plans to make Arizona the new front in his war against organized crime. He has spent days cataloging the Mafia heavies who come and go from the compound in the desert, and now he is ready to strike. Two mob factions are working together in Arizona—and Mack Bolan will ensure that they destroy each other. Arizona Ambush is the 31st book in the Executioner series, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
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Publisher : National Academies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (28 download)
Download or read book The Tucson, Arizona, Flood of October 1983 written by and published by National Academies. This book was released on 1984 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (891 download)
Download or read book Gateway Wing written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barbara Tellman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Arizona's Changing Rivers written by Barbara Tellman and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is organized unlike other books about rivers. Even the Table of Contents looks different. Rivers are interrelated into the lives of people and wildlife. Historical events are related to other events and many kinds of activities affected more than one river. For these reasons, the book is organized into history chapters alternating with chapters about specific rivers. The history chapters contain information needed to understand impacts on the rivers. They are not intended as a thorough history of the state. The river chapters contain information specific to each river, with frequent references to the history chapters for information common to several rivers. Short feature sections contain information on specific common topics. We have attempted to avoid technical terms, but those that are used are defined in the glossary. Similarly, we have used common names for plants and animals. Readers interested in the scientific names will find those in a special section of the glossary.
