The Buffalo Creek Disaster: The Story of the Survivors' Unprecedented Lawsuit by Gerald M. Stern
The Buffalo Creek Disaster: The Story of the Survivors' Unprecedented Lawsuit

Gerald M. Stern

The Buffalo Creek Disaster: The Story of the Survivors' Unprecedented Lawsuit

Gerald M. Stern

274 pages first pub 1976 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional reflective slow-paced

Description

One Saturday morning in February 1972, an impoundment dam owned by the Pittston Coal Company burst, sending a 130 million gallon, 25 foot tidal wave of water, sludge, and debris crashing into southern West Virginia's Buffalo Creek hollow. It was o...

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