Product Description: In the wake of San Francisco's 1906 catastrophe, an enterprising publisher dispatched journalist Charles Morris to obtain firsthand narratives from survivors. Morris's gripping report was rushed to press a few weeks later, providing "a complete and accurate account of the fearful disaster which visited the great city and the Pacific coast, the reign of panic and lawlessness, the plight of 300,000 homeless people, and the worldwide rush to the rescue...read more

Product Description: For most San Franciscans, April 18, 1906 started at 5:12 am with sixty-five seconds of violent quaking followed by a relentless, raging fire that left 98% of the structures in the most populated part of the city in ruins. However, although everyone felt the earthquake equally, they did not all suffer to the same degree...read more

Product Description: Charles Morris (1833-1922) was a prolific American writer. He wrote dime novels under a variety of pseudonyms. He also compiled the series Historical Tales: The Romance of Reality (1893-1908). Amongst his other works are Half- Hours with the Best American Authors (1887), Tales from the Dramatists (1893), Half-Hours of Travel at Home and Abroad (1896), Famous Men and Great Events of the Nineteenth Century (1899), A New History of the United States: The Greater Republic (1899), Man and His Ancestor (1900), With the World's Great Travellers (1901), Famous Orators of the World (1902), The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire (1906) and Men of Affairs in New York (1906)...read more

A definitive account of the 1906 earthquake and resulting firestorms that devastated the city of San Francisco explains how human ineptitude and power politics nearly destroyed the city by failing to serve the needs of its ordinary citizens or to consider the disaster's long-lasting psychological effects, resulting in a period of unparalleled civic upheaval. Reprint.

An informative exploration of earthquakes places a particular focus on the San Francisco disaster of 1906, describing how it affected more than two hundred miles of California, triggered a vast firestorm, and destroyed the gold-rush capital.

An in-depth account of the 1906 earthquake that reduced San Francisco to rubble draws on eyewitness accounts to provide a gripping look at the catastrophe, it devastating impact on the city and the nation, and heroic efforts to rebuild the city.

The George Polk Memorial Award-winning historian investigates the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, bringing to life this horrible natural disaster--registering 8.3 on the Richter scale--and the subsequent fire that raged through the rubble killing ten thousand people. Reprint. (view table of contents)

The George Polk Memorial Award-winning historian investigates the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, bringing to life this horrible natural disaster--registering 8.3 on the Richter scale--and the subsequent fire that raged through the rubble killing ten thousand people. 60,000 first printing.

Product Description: The 1906 earthquake and fire completely destroyed San Francisco's Chinatown. The anti-Chinese forces in the city, who had made repeated attempts to remove Chinatown from the center of the city in the late 19th century, regarded the demolition as a godsend...read more

An account of the earthquake of 1906 in San Francisco, during which fires began which raged unchecked over the city, virtually destroying it.