| #2996792 in Books | Globe Pequot | 2006-08-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | .65 x6.08 x9.00l,.77 | File type: PDF | 224 pages | ||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| A Great Read, and a Fine Way to Learn Some of Oregon's History|By Gary Borjesson|I thoroughly enjoyed this collection recounting "true stories of tragedy and survival" in Oregon's history, ranging from 1903 to 2003. Rachel Dresbeck is a clear, engaging writer who knows how to tell a story and has a great eye for the salient details that bring events and the people involved in t
Twenty disasters spanning more than a century are brought to life in this engagingly written volume. Among the true accounts dramatically retold are the deadly Mount Hood avalanche of 1927, the 1933 Tillamook forest fire (one of the worst in U.S. history), the devastating tsunami of 1964, and the 1903 flash flood in Heppner, which carried away a fourth of the town's inhabitants.
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Oregon Disasters: True Stories of Tragedy and Survival (Disasters Series) | Rachel Dresbeck. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
