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100 1 $aKrist, Gary.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88015422
245 14 $aThe white cascade :$bthe Great Northern Railway disaster and America's deadliest avalanche /$cGary Krist.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bHenry Holt and Company,$c2007.
300 $axii, 315 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, maps ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [291]-297) and index.
520 1 $a"The tale begins in February 1910 in the midst of a blizzard sweeping across the Pacific Northwest. Two Great Northern Railway trains, heading out from Spokane, are attempting to cross the rugged Cascade Mountains on their way to Seattle. Near the crest of the range, they're forced to stop; snow has blocked the tracks and the plows are overwhelmed. The delay extends to a full day, then two, then three. On the fourth day, the passengers hear the sound of avalanches rumbling in the mountains." "To save them, the Great Northern Railroad - under James H. O'Neill, the railroad's supreme snow fighter - marshals an army of men. But the storm is unrelenting. Food supplies are dwindling when the snow shovelers go on strike. Some of the passengers are sick, some exhausted. On the sixth night, a powerful thunderstorm begins to rage. In the early hours of March 1, the snowfield above the trains collapses: An avalanche of nearly unimaginable size engulfs both trains and sends them tumbling off the mountain and into the canyon below." "The White Cascade resurrects this true but largely forgotten tragedy, setting its human drama against a background of railroad lore, robber baron politics, and the last vestiges of the Wild West on the brink of the modern age."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aAvalanches.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85010490
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0665/2006049047-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0665/2006049047-d.html
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