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The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche
by Krist, Gary
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/very good
- ISBN 10
- 0805077057
- ISBN 13
- 9780805077056
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About This Item
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2007. First edition. Stated. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/very good. xv, 315, [1] p. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. In February 1910, a monstrous blizzard centered on Washington State hit the Northwest, breaking records. The world stopped-but nowhere was the danger more terrifying than near a tiny town called Wellington, perched high in the Cascade Mountains, where a desperate situation evolved minute by minute: two trainloads of cold, hungry passengers and their crews found themselves marooned without escape, their railcars gradually being buried in the rising drifts. For days, an army of the Great Northern Railroad's most dedicated men-led by the line's legendarily courageous superintendent, James O'Neill-worked round-the-clock to rescue the trains. But the storm was unrelenting, and to the passenger's great anxiety, the railcars-their only shelter-were parked precariously on the edge of a steep ravine. As the days passed, food and coal supplies dwindled. Panic and rage set in as snow accumulated deeper and deeper on the cliffs overhanging the trains. Finally, just when escape seemed possible, the unthinkable occurred: the earth shifted and a colossal avalanche tumbled from the high pinnacles, sweeping the trains and their sleeping passengers over the steep slope and down the mountainside. Centered on the astonishing spectacle of our nation's deadliest avalanche, "The White Cascade" is the masterfully told story of a supremely dramatic and never-before-documented American tragedy. An adventure saga filled with colourful and engaging history, this is epic narrative storytelling at its finest.
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- Title
- The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche
- Author
- Krist, Gary
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition. Stated. First printing [stated]
- ISBN 10
- 0805077057
- ISBN 13
- 9780805077056
- Publisher
- Henry Holt and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2007
- Keywords
- Arthur Blackburn, Great Northern Railway, William Harrington, Alfred Hensel, James Hill, Lewis Joseph, Earl Longcoy, John Merritt, James O'Neill, Joseph Pettit, Rotary Snowplows, Seattle Express, Ida May Starrett, Basil Sherlock, Edward Topping, Henr
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