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White Cascade The Great Northern Railway Disaster |
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| Subject: | History: U.S.: Washington State |
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| Catalog # | HIST35581 | |
| Regular Price: Your Price: You Save: | $26.00 $19.95 $6.05 (23.27%) | |
| Author: |
Gary Krist |
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| Binding: | Cloth | |
| Copyright Year: | 2007 | |
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We're Sorry, This |
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Description: |
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 colorful and engaging history, this is epic narrative storytelling at its finest.
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