Under A Flaming Sky
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Under A Flaming Sky
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Author : Daniel Brown
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2016-02-01
Under A Flaming Sky written by Daniel Brown and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-01 with History categories.
On September 1, 1894 two forest fires converged on the town of Hinckley, Minnesota, trapping over 2,000 people. Daniel J. Brown recounts the events surrounding the fire in the first and only book on to chronicle the dramatic story that unfolded. Whereas Oregon's famous "Biscuit" fire in 2002 burned 350,000 acres in one week, the Hinckley fire did the same damage in five hours. The fire created its own weather, including hurricane-strength winds, bubbles of plasma-like glowing gas, and 200-foot-tall flames. In some instances, "fire whirls," or tornadoes of fire, danced out from the main body of the fire to knock down buildings and carry flaming debris into the sky. Temperatures reached 1,600 degrees Fahrenheit--the melting point of steel. As the fire surrounded the town, two railroads became the only means of escape. Two trains ran the gauntlet of fire. One train caught on fire from one end to the other. The heroic young African-American porter ran up and down the length of the train, reassuring the passengers even as the flames tore at their clothes. On the other train, the engineer refused to back his locomotive out of town until the last possible minute of escape. In all, more than 400 people died, leading to a revolution in forestry management practices and federal agencies that monitor and fight wildfires today. Author Daniel Brown has woven together numerous survivors' stories, historical sources, and interviews with forest fire experts in a gripping narrative that tells the fascinating story of one of North America's most devastating fires and how it changed the nation.
Under A Flaming Sky
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Author : Daniel Brown
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Under A Flaming Sky written by Daniel Brown and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with History categories.
One of North America's most destructive fires, and the amazing true story of how its survivors escaped to change a nation.
Facing The Mountain
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Author : Daniel James Brown
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2021-05-11
Facing The Mountain written by Daniel James Brown and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-11 with History categories.
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of NPR's "Books We Love" of 2021 Longlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Winner of the Christopher Award “Masterly. An epic story of four Japanese-American families and their sons who volunteered for military service and displayed uncommon heroism… Propulsive and gripping, in part because of Mr. Brown’s ability to make us care deeply about the fates of these individual soldiers...a page-turner.” – Wall Street Journal From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat, a gripping World War II saga of patriotism and resistance, focusing on four Japanese American men and their families, and the contributions and sacrifices that they made for the sake of the nation. In the days and months after Pearl Harbor, the lives of Japanese Americans across the continent and Hawaii were changed forever. In this unforgettable chronicle of war-time America and the battlefields of Europe, Daniel James Brown portrays the journey of Rudy Tokiwa, Fred Shiosaki, and Kats Miho, who volunteered for the 442nd Regimental Combat Team and were deployed to France, Germany, and Italy, where they were asked to do the near impossible. Brown also tells the story of these soldiers' parents, immigrants who were forced to submit to life in concentration camps on U.S. soil. Woven throughout is the chronicle of Gordon Hirabayashi, one of a cadre of patriotic resisters who stood up against their government in defense of their own rights. Whether fighting on battlefields or in courtrooms, these were Americans under unprecedented strain, doing what Americans do best—striving, resisting, pushing back, rising up, standing on principle, laying down their lives, and enduring.
From The Ashes
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Author : Grace Stageberg Swenson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
From The Ashes written by Grace Stageberg Swenson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with History categories.
Illustrated with photos, maps, and facsimiles.
The Indifferent Stars Above Lp
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Author : Daniel James Brown
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2009-05-19
The Indifferent Stars Above Lp written by Daniel James Brown and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-19 with History categories.
In April of 1846, Sarah Graves was twenty-one and in love with a young man who played the violin. But she was torn. Her mother, father, and eight siblings were about to disappear over the western horizon forever, bound for California. Sarah could not bear to see them go out of her life, and so days before the planned departure she married the young man with the violin, and the two of them threw their lot in with the rest of Sarah's family. On April 12, they rolled out of the yard of their homestead in three ox-drawn wagons. Seven months later, after joining a party of emigrants led by George Donner, Sarah and her family arrived at Truckee Lake in the Sierra Nevada Mountains just as the first heavy snows of the season closed the pass ahead of them. After a series of desperate attempts to cross the mountains, the party improvised cabins and slaughtered what remained of their emaciated livestock. By early December they were beginning to starve. Sarah's father, a Vermonter, was the only member of the party familiar with snowshoes. Under his instruction, fifteen sets of snowshoes were hastily constructed from oxbows and rawhide, and on December 15, Sarah and fourteen other relatively young, healthy people set out for California on foot, hoping to get relief for the others. Over the next thirty-two days they endured almost unfathomable hardships and horrors. In this gripping narrative, Daniel James Brown takes the reader along on every painful footstep of Sarah's journey. Along the way, he weaves into the story revealing insights garnered from a variety of modern scientific perspectives–psychology, physiology, forensics, and archaeology–producing a tale that is not only spell-binding but richly informative.
The Fires Of Autumn
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Author : Francis M. Carroll
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
The Fires Of Autumn written by Francis M. Carroll and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with History categories.
In the fall of 1918, devastating forest fires swept across a major portion of northeastern Minnesota. Drawing on both published survivors' accounts and on trial testimony never publicized, the authors bring to light this saga of destruction, resurrection, and resilience in the face of adversity.
A Fire Upon The Deep
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Author : Vernor Vinge
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2013-01-24
A Fire Upon The Deep written by Vernor Vinge and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-24 with Fiction categories.
Thousands of years hence, many races inhabit a universe where a mind's potential is determined by its location in space - from superintelligent entities in the Transcend, to the limited minds of the Unthinking Depths, where only simple creatures and technology can function. Nobody knows what strange force partitioned space into these 'zones of thought', but when the warring Straumli realm use an ancient Transcendent artefact as a weapon, they unwittingly unleash an awesome power that destroys thousands of worlds and enslaves all natural and artificial intelligence. Fleeing the threat, a family of scientists, including two children, are taken captive by the Tines - an alien race with a harsh medieval culture - and used as pawns in a ruthless power struggle. A rescue party, not entirely composed of humans, must free the children - and retrieve a secret that may save the rest of interstellar civilization.
Those Who Inherit The Will Of The Damned
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Author : Daniel Brown
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2007-03
Those Who Inherit The Will Of The Damned written by Daniel Brown and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-03 with Fiction categories.
When Prophecy leads you to be killed, would you go along quietly? Would you see yourself as merely a pawn in some larger game? Or, would you fight it with your all? Even that which was set in stone was carved into the living rock first. Brenna'Adun'Kial is set by Prophecy to unite the Beasts of Wold under one leader. but others have set store in said Prophecy. Now, they seek her death. Will Prophecy be set true? Or will Death claim her first?
Firestorm At Peshtigo
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Author : Denise Gess
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2003-06
Firestorm At Peshtigo written by Denise Gess and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A novelist and historian team up to tell the story of the October 1871 fire in the lumber town of Peshtigo, Wisconsin, vividly re-creating the personal and political battles leading to this monumental natural disaster, and delivering it from the lost annals of American history. 16-page insert. 3 maps.
Under The Dome Part 2
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Author : Stephen King
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2014-03-25
Under The Dome Part 2 written by Stephen King and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-25 with Fiction categories.
After an invisible force field seals off Chester Mills, Maine, from the rest of the world, it is up to Dale Barbara, an Iraq veteran, and a select group of citizens to save the town, if they can get past Big Jim Rennie, a murderous politician, and his son, who hides a horrible secret in his dark pantry. Reprint.