| #2067732 in Books | Globe Pequot | 2006-08-01 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | 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|From the Back Cover|
It’s only human to be fascinated by disastersand uplifted by reports of survival in the face of overwhelming circumstances. Rachel Dresbeck takes you back to Oregon’s most catastrophic events, vividly re-creating
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. Just read it with an open mind because none of us really know.
