Disasters of the Pikes Peak Region (Pikes Peak Library District Regional History Series)

Daily, Dennis; Blevins, Tim; Dean, Sydne; Jordan, Heather; Nicholl, Chris, and Michael L. Olsen (editors)

ISBN 10: 1567353185 / ISBN 13: 9781567353181

Published by Pikes Peak Library District, Colorado Springs, CO, 2017

About this Item

New and unread; The 15th title in the highly acclaimed PPLD Regional History Series; This publication stems from the 2012 Pikes Peak Regional History Symposium entitled Disasters of the Pikes Peak Region; Chapters by Symposium contributors include: Defining Disaster by Michael L. Olsen; Evolution of Fire by Errin Barnes; Pikes Peak Timberland Reserve Fires by John Jack; The Antlers Hotel Fire of 1898 by Bill Crosby; Help From On High: Space Assets and Military-Civil Cooperation during the Waldo Canyon and Black Forest Fires by Rick W. Sturdevant; In Our Own Back Yard: Waldo Canyon Fire Oral History Project by Heather Jordan; Crossing the Denial Divide: Arid West Lessons from the Waldo Canyon and Black Forest Fires, by Katherine Scott Sturdevant; When the Waters Rise: .Pikes Peak Area Floods, by John E. Putnam; The Memorial Day Flood of 1935, by Preston & Lindsay Petermeier; Hell & High Water: Natural Disasters at Glen Eyrie, by Susan A. Fletcher; Flash Flooding: A Legacy of the Waldo Canyon Fire, by John E. Putnam; The Cripple Creek Volcano: A 35-million-year Disaster, by Doris McCraw; Earth, Wind, Fire & Other Mini-Disasters in the 1800's, by Nancy K, Prince; The Fountain Depot Explosion of 1888; "Worse Than Fire or Flood, Tornado or Earthquake": The Collapse of the Building and Loan Industry in Depression-Era Colorado Springs, by Alice Echols; 449p., including exhaustive bibliography and index. Size: 8vo - Over 7 3/4" -9 3/4 " Tall.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Disasters of the Pikes Peak Region (Pikes Peak Library District Regional History Series)
• Publisher: Pikes Peak Library District, Colorado Springs, CO
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1567353185
• ISBN 13: 9781567353181
• Binding: Illustrated Wraps
• Illustrator: Cover Photo by U.S. Air Force Master Sergeant Jeremy Lock
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: As New
• Book Type: Paperback
• Seller catalogs:
  • Colorado

About this title

Synopsis

Disasters of the Pikes Peak Region serves as an intense summary of many of the major fires, floods, and other catastrophes of this area. Though thoroughly researched by the contributors, this book is not intended to be a comprehensive accounting, but rather a collection of some of the more significant calamities impacting the area—many of which were discussed at the 9th Annual Pikes Peak Regional History Symposium, also titled “Disasters of the Pikes Peak Region.”Readers will learn that recent misfortunes experienced in the Pikes Peak region were unprecedented in their destruction, but were not unfamiliar, or even unpredictable, events. In fact, we should expect some natural disasters. For example, did you know that Colorado was designated the “hail capital of the U.S.”? Or did you know that Colorado is on the western borderline of Tornado Alley and that twisters have damaged property in both the El Paso County plains and Manitou Springs, where an estimated $1 million in tornado damage occurred in 1979?In these pages you will learn how the devastating 19th century fires in Cripple Creek and Colorado Springs influenced how these communities developed and how waging battle against destructive flames evolved from making fire breaks by blasting buildings to sophisticated military missions involving satellites, GPS, and aerial firefighting methods. You will understand, from first-hand accounts, how the 1898 Antlers Hotel fire started and quickly burned an extensive area of Colorado Springs three blocks long and two blocks wide. And you will be shocked by the damaging 1935 Memorial Day Flood, and other floods, that swiftly overcame Colorado Springs’ parks, streets, and buildings.