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Heavy ground : William Mulholland and the St. Francis Dam disaster / by Norris Hundley jr. and Donald C. Jackson.
Fine Arts Library TC557.C3 S245 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hundley, Norris, Jr., author.
- Jackson, Donald C. (Donald Conrad), 1953- author.
- Series:
- Western histories ; 8.
- Western histories ; 8
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Water-supply.
- History.
- Water-supply engineers.
- Floods.
- Saint Francis Dam (Calif.).
- Floods--California--Santa Clara River.
- Water-supply engineers--California--Los Angeles--Biography.
- Water-supply--California--Los Angeles--History.
- California--Los Angeles.
- California--Saint Francis Dam.
- California--Santa Clara River.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 439 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oakland, California : Published for the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West by University of California Press, Oakland, California, and the Huntington Library, San Marino, California, [2015]
- Contents:
- Mulholland : a man and an aqueduct
- The dam : site selection and design
- The dam : construction, operation, failure
- Disaster unleashed
- Responsibility and reparations
- The politics of safety : inquest and investigations
- After the flood : dam building
- After the flood : Mulholland
- Was failure inevitable?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780520287662
- 0520287665
- OCLC:
- 879662240
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