Arizona's Worst Disaster
Author | : Jim Liggett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2020-12 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781734488425 |
A technical recap of why the Walnut Grove Dam failed in 1890.
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Author | : Jim Liggett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2020-12 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781734488425 |
A technical recap of why the Walnut Grove Dam failed in 1890.
Author | : James A. Liggett |
Publisher | : Pathfinder Publishing of California |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Dam failures |
ISBN | : 9780976559122 |
Author | : Carole Marsh |
Publisher | : Carole Marsh Books |
Total Pages | : 62 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 0793301149 |
Author | : United States. Army. Corps of Engineers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Arizona |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Heidi J. Osselaer |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 2018-05-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0806161426 |
On a cold winter morning, Jeff Power was lighting a fire in his remote Arizona cabin when he heard a noise, grabbed his rifle, and walked out the front door. Someone in the dark shouted, “Throw up your hands!” Shots rang out from inside and outside the cabin, and when it was all over, Jeff’s sons, Tom and John, emerged to find the sheriff and his two deputies dead, and their father mortally wounded. Arizona’s deadliest shoot-out happened not in 1881, but in 1918 as the United States plunged into World War I, and not in Tombstone, but in a remote canyon in the Galiuro Mountains northeast of Tucson. Whereas previous accounts have portrayed the gun battle as a quintessential western feud, historian Heidi J. Osselaer explodes that myth and demonstrates how the national debate over U.S. entry into the First World War divided society at its farthest edges, creating the political and social climate that lead to this tragedy. A vivid, thoroughly researched account, Arizona’s Deadliest Gunfight describes an impoverished family that wanted nothing to do with modern civilization. Jeff Power had built his cabin miles from the nearest settlement, yet he could not escape the federal government’s expanding reach. The Power men were far from violent criminals, but Jeff had openly criticized the Great War, and his sons had failed to register for the draft. To separate fact from dozens of false leads and conspiracy theories, Osselaer traced the Power family’s roots back several generations, interviewed descendants of the shoot-out’s participants, and uncovered previously unknown records. What happened to Tom and John Power afterward is as stirring and tragic a story as the gunfight itself. Weaving together a family-based local history with national themes of wartime social discord, rural poverty, and dissent, Arizona’s Deadliest Gunfight will be the authoritative account of the 1918 incident and the memorable events that unfolded in its wake.
Author | : Greg Hawk |
Publisher | : Desert Roamer Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2020-04-17 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781734488401 |
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 | : Tim Z. Hernandez |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2017-01-28 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0816536082 |
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 | : Michael McColgin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1998* |
Genre | : Assistance in emergencies |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Arizona. Department of Library, Archives & Public Records. Archives Division |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 6 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Books |
ISBN | : |