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The Buffalo Creek disaster

  • Gerald M. Stern

3.67

3 ratings

How a young lawyer took on the Pittston Coal Company after their dam failed and flooding Buffalo Creek hollow killing 125 and wounding 1000.

Genres

  • Floods
  • Negligence
  • Pittston Company
  • Trials, litigation
  • Rechtspraak
  • Kolenmijnen
  • Rampen
  • Catastrophes naturelles
  • West virginia, history
  • Dams
  • Accidents
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About the author

  • Gerald M. Stern

    born 1937

    3.67

    3 ratings · 3 works

Editions

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    Vintage Books

    1977

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    1st ed.

    Random House

    1976

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    Random House Inc

    February 1977

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    2nd Vintage Books ed.

    Vintage Books

    2008

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Vintage, Vintage Books

May 6, 2008