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The great Crescenta Valley flood : New Year's Day, 1934
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- Creator
- Art Cobery with Mike and Pam Lawler
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- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Charleston, SC : History Press, 2012
- Physical Details
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- 159 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781609494490, 1609494490
- OCLC
- ocn810773448
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [155]-156) and index.
- Prologue -- The Unique Geology of the San Gabriel Mountains -- The Rural Character of the Crescenta Valley in the 1930s -- Elfin Forests to Raging Firestorms : Nature's Way -- Desperate Measures in the Wake of the Picken's Fire -- Land of Contrasts : Droughts and Deluges -- 1914 : Floodwaters Trump Growth -- Tenuous Interlude : 1926/1933 -- December Rains : Prelude to Disaster -- Volunteers and Government Workers Meet the Challenges of Flood Devastation -- Flood Control : A Plea For Help -- Reforestation v. Debris Basins : The Army Corps of Engineers Wins -- Are We Really Safe? -- Epilogue -- Closure -- Flood Stories and Eyewitness Accounts
Subjects
- Floods -- California -- Crescenta Valley -- History -- 20th century.
- Flood control -- California -- Crescenta Valley -- History -- 20th century.
- Crescenta Valley (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century.
- Crescenta Valley (Calif.) -- Biography.
- Crescenta Valley (Calif.) -- Environmental conditions -- History -- 20th century.