The big one
the earthquake that rocked early America and helped create a science
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Author
Contributions
- Officer, Charles B. - Contributor
Publication
2004 - Houghton Mifflin, Boston, Massachusetts
Language
English
Word Count
59,750 words, Guess
Page Count
239 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL23272454M
- ISBN-100618341501
- OCLC Control Number54001405
- OCLC Control Numberbigoneearthquake00page
- Library of Congress Control Number2004040536
and 2 more
- LibraryThing780162
- Goodreads1223125
Classifications
- LCCQE535.2.U6 P34 2004
Description
"In the early 1800s a series of gargantuan earth tremors seized the American frontier. Tremendous roars and flashes of eerie light accompanied huge spouts of water and gas. Six-foot-high waterfalls appeared in the Mississippi River, thousands of trees exploded, and some 1,500 people - in what was then a sparsely populated wilderness - were killed. A region the size of Texas, centered in Missouri and Arkansas, was rent apart, and the tremors reached as far as Montreal. Forget the 1906 earthquake - this set of quakes constituted the Big One." "Jake Page and Charles Officer rely on historical accounts and the latest scientific findings to tell a long-forgotten story in which the naturalist John James Audubon, the Shawnee chief Tecumsch, scientists, and charlatans all play roles."--BOOK JACKET.
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