| Man-Made Disaster: The Story of the St. Francis Dam by Charles F. Outland. The most authoritative history of the worst American civil engineering failure of the 20th Century and the worst disaster in Southern California history. The collapse of St. Francis Dam on March 12, 1928 claimed more than 450 lives and ended the legendary career of William Mulholland. Published in association with Vroman's Bookstore and the Ventura County Museum of History and Art. (more) | ||||
| 275 pp. $25.00 | ||||
| The St. Francis Dam Disaster Revisited, ed. Doyce B. Nunis, Jr. The latest and most modern study of the St. Francis tragedy with articles by J. David Rogers, Professor of Geological Engineering at the University of Misssouri at Rolla, Catherine Mulholland, granddaughter and author of William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles, Charles Johnson, Archivist at the Ventura Museum of History and Art, and Abraham Hoffman, author of Vision or Villainy: Origins of the Owens Valley-Los Angeles Water Controversy. (more) | ||||
| 182 pp. $18.00 | ||||
| A Guide to Historical Outings in Southern California by California State University at Northridge Professor of History Gloria Lothrop is the first book to identify and describe the hundreds of historic sites located in the eight counties of Southern California, from San Diego to Santa Barbara. Here is a guide that treats history as personal experience rather than as an abstract body of facts. |
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| Griffith
Park by Mike Eberts, Associate Professor of Mass Communications at Glendale Community
College. Here, for the first time, is the fascinating and little-known story of one of the
world’s largest urban parks. Beginning with the picturesque Rancho Los Feliz and the
controversial Colonel Griffith J. Griffith and his sensational gift of 4,000 acres to the
City of Los Angeles in 1896, it carries the story to the present park, which serves as an
oasis for multicultural Los Angeles. 448 pp. |
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