The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche
Item #:
17541
Author: Gary Krist
ISBN: 978-0805083293
Author: Gary Krist
ISBN: 978-0805083293
$20.00
Product Details
In February 1910, a monstrous, record-breaking blizzard hit the Northwest. Nowhere was the danger more terrifying than near a tiny town called Wellington, perched high in the Cascade Mountains, where a desperate situation evolved: two trainloads of cold, hungry passengers and their crews found themselves marooned. For days, an army of the Great Northern Railroad's most dedicated men worked to rescue the trains, but just when escape seemed possible, the unthinkable occurred—a colossal avalanche tumbled down, sweeping the trains over the steep slope and down the mountainside. Centered on the astonishing spectacle of our nation's deadliest avalanche, The White Cascade is the masterfully told story of a never-before-documented tragedy.
Features: Paperback. 2008. 352 pp. 5.3 x 1 x 7.9 inches.