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Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
[xvii], 332 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., 1 map, ports.
Language
English
Description
On 15 June 1904, the steamer General Slocum sailed up the East River with 1,300 passengers. Fire erupted aboard the boat and 1,021 perished before land was reached.
Author
Language
English
Description
The Frontier chronicle is the scholarly portion of the PCGS publication, which features local histories, family histories, extracts of records, finding aids to the records housed in their library, general research aids, and other genealogical and historical information.
The "PCGS news" was formerly known as "Pottawattamie County Genealogical Society newsletter." It was absorbed into "The Frontier chronicle" in 1995, and appeared as a regular section...
Author
Publisher
Memorial Pub
Pub. Date
[c1904]
Physical Desc
xv, 368, [16] p. : ill., maps, ports.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Theater's name: Iroquois.
The memorial edition was issued in 1904 by Marshall Everett with the title: The Great Chicago theater disaster. The pagination, illustrations, and portraits are the same.
10) Lost Chicago
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
1975
Physical Desc
241 pages
Language
English
Publisher
publisher not identified
Pub. Date
196-?]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (unnumbered pages)
Language
English
Description
The Mann Gulch fire was a wildfire reported on August 5, 1949, in a gulch located along the upper Missouri River in the Gates of the Mountains Wilderness (then known as the Gates of the Mountains Wild Area), Helena National Forest, in the U.S. state of Montana. A team of 15 smokejumpers parachuted into the area on the afternoon of August 5, 1949, to fight the fire, rendezvousing with a former smokejumper who was employed as a fire guard at the nearby...
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