Heavy Ground: William Mulholland and the St. Francis Dam Disaster

by Donald C. Jackson and Norris Hundley

Book Overview

Minutes before midnight on March 12, 1928, the St. Francis Dam collapsed, sending more than 12 billion gallons of water surging through Southern California's Santa Clara Valley and killing some 400 people. This tragic failure is widely recognized as the greatest civil engineering disaster in twentieth-century American history. Extensively illustrated and carefully researched, Heavy Ground provides a compelling an account of how the St. Francis...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1948908883
• ISBN13: 9781948908887
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: University of Nevada Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.9"