Download or read book Buffalo Creek written by J. Dennis Deitz and published by Mountain Memories Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Flood Hazard Information Buffalo Creek Logan County West Virginia written by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Huntington District and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Examination of the Conditions which Led to the Buffalo Creek Disaster in Logan County West Virginia on February 26 1972 written by Fred C. Walker and published by . This book was released on 1972* with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Buffalo Creek Disaster written by Gerald M. Stern and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-05-06 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "suspenseful and completely absorbing story" (San Francisco Chronicle) of how survivors of the worst coal-mining disaster in history triumphed over corporate irresponsibility—written by the young lawyer who took on their case and won. One Saturday morning in February 1972, an impoundment dam owned by the Pittston Coal Company burst, sending a 130 million gallon, 25 foot tidal wave of water, sludge, and debris crashing into southern West Virginia's Buffalo Creek hollow. It was one of the deadliest floods in U.S. history. 125 people were killed instantly, more than 1,000 were injured, and over 4,000 were suddenly homeless. Instead of accepting the small settlements offered by the coal company's insurance offices, a few hundred of the survivors banded together to sue.

Download or read book The Buffalo Creek Disaster written by Gerald M. Stern and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-01-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One Saturday morning in February 1972, an impoundment dam owned by the Pittston Coal Company burst, sending a 130 million gallon, 25 foot tidal wave of water, sludge, and debris crashing into southern West Virginia's Buffalo Creek hollow. It was one of the deadliest floods in U.S. history. 125 people were killed instantly, more than 1,000 were injured, and over 4,000 were suddenly homeless. Instead of accepting the small settlements offered by the coal company's insurance offices, a few hundred of the survivors banded together to sue. This is the story of their triumph over incredible odds and corporate irresponsibility, as told by Gerald M. Stern, who as a young lawyer and took on the case and won.

Download or read book Everything In Its Path written by Kai T. Erikson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1977 Sorokin Award–winning story of Buffalo Creek in the aftermath of a devastating flood. On February 26, 1972, 132-million gallons of debris-filled muddy water burst through a makeshift mining-company dam and roared through Buffalo Creek, a narrow mountain hollow in West Virginia. Following the flood, survivors from a previously tightly knit community were crowded into trailer homes with no concern for former neighborhoods. The result was a collective trauma that lasted longer than the individual traumas caused by the original disaster. Making extensive use of the words of the people themselves, Erikson details the conflicting tensions of mountain life in general—the tensions between individualism and dependency, self-assertion and resignation, self-centeredness and group orientation—and examines the loss of connection, disorientation, declining morality, rise in crime, rise in out-migration, etc., that resulted from the sudden loss of neighborhood.

Download or read book West Virginia s Buffalo Creek Flood written by William Edward Davies and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Buffalo Creek W Va Disaster 1972 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Labor and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 1634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Buffalo Creek W Va Disaster 1972 written by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Strange as This Weather Has Been written by Ann Pancake and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2007-09-10 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A West Virginia family struggles amid the booms and busts of the Appalachian coal industry in this “powerful, sure-footed, and haunting” novel with echoes of John Steinbeck (New York Times Book Review). Set in present day West Virginia, this debut novel tells the story of a coal mining family—a couple and their four children—living through the latest mining boom and dealing with the mountaintop removal and strip mining that is ruining what is left of their hometown. As the mine turns the mountains “to slag and wastewater,” workers struggle with layoffs and children find adventure in the blasted moonscape craters. Strange as This Weather Has Been follows several members of the family, with a particular focus on fifteen–year–old Bant and her mother, Lace. Working at a motel, Bant becomes involved with a young miner while her mother contemplates joining the fight against the mining companies. As domestic conflicts escalate at home, the children are pushed more and more frequently outside among junk from the floods and felled trees in the hollows—the only nature they have ever known. But Bant has other memories and is as curious and strong–willed as her mother, and ultimately comes to discover the very real threat of destruction that looms as much in the landscape as it does at home.

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Download or read book Summary of Gerald M Stern s The Buffalo Creek Disaster written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-09-09T22:59:00Z with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 In the early 1960s, I traveled around Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana trying voting discrimination cases for the government. I was too shy to ask for something for myself, but I was always able to speak up for others. #2 I was too shy to ask for something for myself, but I was always able to speak up for others. I ended up representing the Buffalo Creek survivors in a case that made me a folk hero in the hills of West Virginia. #3 Charles Cowan, Jr. , the local football hero, was elected chairman of the Buffalo Creek Grade School committee that was going to file a lawsuit against the coal company. #4 The Buffalo Creek disaster exposed the shortcomings of private law firms and how they fail to protect the little guy.

Download or read book Buffalo Creek W Va Diaster 1972 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public Welfare and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 1514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Buffalo Creek Disaster written by Gerald M. Stern and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind-the-scenes account by the attorney from the Washington D.C. law firm that represented the Buffalo Creek Disaster survivors in a lawsuit. There were over 4,000 survivors of the flood that devastated over 16 small West Virginia communities and took 125 lives.

Download or read book Boone Logan County West Virginia Fishing Floating Guide Book written by Jim Maccracken and published by Recreational Guides. This book was released on 2017-07-16 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boone & Logan County West Virginia Fishing & Floating Guide Book Over 415 full 8 ½ x 11 sized pages of information with maps and aerial photographs available. Fishing information is included for ALL of the county’s public ponds and lakes, listing types of fish for each pond or lake, average sizes, and exact locations with GPS coordinates and directions. Also included is fishing information for most of the streams and rivers including access points and public areas with road contact and crossing points and also includes fish types and average sizes. NEW NEW Now with a complete set of full sized U.S.G.S. Topographical Maps for the entire county that normally cost from $12.00 to $14.00 each but are included on the disk for FREE. These maps are complete full sized 7.5 minute series quadrangle maps in 1:24,000 scale maps. Contains complete information on Big Creek (F) Big Ugly Creek Buffalo Creeks (W) Chief Logan State Park Pond Coal Rivers (WF) Coal River Clear Fork (WF) Coal River Hopkins Fork Coal River Marsh Fork (WF) Fork Creek Pond Guyandotte River (F) (W) Harts Creeks Huff Creeks (W) Laurel Creek Little Coal River (W) Little Coal River Pond Fork (W) Little Coal River Spruce Fork Little Coal River Spruce Laurel Fork Mud Rivers (W) Rich Creek and the Rockhouse Fork Lake (F) means floatable stream or river (W) means whitewater

Download or read book BUFFALO CREEK W VA DISASTER 1972 written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 1358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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