Johnstown flood
Subtitle: the day the dam burst
By: Mary Gow.
Series: American disasters
Publisher: Enslow Publishers
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Berkeley Heights, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 48
Subjects: Floods -- Pennsylvania -- Johnstown -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature.; Floods -- Pennsylvania -- Johnstown.; Johnstown (Pa.) -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature.; Johnstown (Pa.) -- History -- 19th century.
Genres: Juvenile literature.
Description: An account of the great Johnstown, Pennsylvania, flood of 1889, when a dam failed and over two thousand people died, making this one of the worst peacetime disasters in the history of the United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 47) and index.
Table of contents: title: Dangerous proposition; title: The dam in the mountains; title: Prepare for the worst; title: "The end of the world"; title: Relief and recovery; title: The future.