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Author : Tom Nugent
Release : 1973-07-01
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 216/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Death at Buffalo Creek by : Tom Nugent
Download or read book Death at Buffalo Creek written by Tom Nugent. This book was released on 1973-07-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gerald M. Stern
Release : 2008-05-06
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 492/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Buffalo Creek Disaster by : Gerald M. Stern
Download or read book The Buffalo Creek Disaster written by Gerald M. Stern. This book was released on 2008-05-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "suspenseful and completely absorbing story" (San Francisco Chronicle) of how survivors of the worst coal-mining disaster in history triumphed over corporate irresponsibility—written by the young lawyer who took on their case and won. One Saturday morning in February 1972, an impoundment dam owned by the Pittston Coal Company burst, sending a 130 million gallon, 25 foot tidal wave of water, sludge, and debris crashing into southern West Virginia's Buffalo Creek hollow. It was one of the deadliest floods in U.S. history. 125 people were killed instantly, more than 1,000 were injured, and over 4,000 were suddenly homeless. Instead of accepting the small settlements offered by the coal company's insurance offices, a few hundred of the survivors banded together to sue.
Author : J. Dennis Deitz
Release : 1992
Genre : Buffalo Creek (Logan County, W. Va.)
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Book Rating : 105/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Buffalo Creek by : J. Dennis Deitz
Download or read book Buffalo Creek written by J. Dennis Deitz. This book was released on 1992. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kai T. Erikson
Release : 2012-04-10
Genre : Nature
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Book Synopsis Everything In Its Path by : Kai T. Erikson
Download or read book Everything In Its Path written by Kai T. Erikson. This book was released on 2012-04-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1977 Sorokin Award–winning story of Buffalo Creek in the aftermath of a devastating flood. On February 26, 1972, 132-million gallons of debris-filled muddy water burst through a makeshift mining-company dam and roared through Buffalo Creek, a narrow mountain hollow in West Virginia. Following the flood, survivors from a previously tightly knit community were crowded into trailer homes with no concern for former neighborhoods. The result was a collective trauma that lasted longer than the individual traumas caused by the original disaster. Making extensive use of the words of the people themselves, Erikson details the conflicting tensions of mountain life in general—the tensions between individualism and dependency, self-assertion and resignation, self-centeredness and group orientation—and examines the loss of connection, disorientation, declining morality, rise in crime, rise in out-migration, etc., that resulted from the sudden loss of neighborhood.
Author : Tom Nugent
Release : 1973-01-01
Genre : Buffalo Creek (W. Va.)
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Book Rating : 828/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Death at Buffalo Creek by : Tom Nugent
Download or read book Death at Buffalo Creek written by Tom Nugent. This book was released on 1973-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
