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03033aam a22004338i 4500 001 F3E4E7902A8611EDB7025AE94EECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220902011726 008 220824s2022 mdua e b 000 0 eng 010 $a 2022039715 020 $a 1493060724 020 $a 9781493060726 035 $a (OCoLC)1201385520 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d LE@ $d BUP $d SILO 043 $a n-usm-- 100 1 $a Klinkenberg, Dean, $e author. 245 10 $a Mississippi River mayhem : $b disasters, tragedy, and murder on Ol' Man River / $c Dean Klinkenberg. 246 30 $a Disasters, tragedy, and murder on Ol' Man River 263 $a 2211 264 1 $a Guilford, Connecticut : $b Globe Pequot, $c [2022] 300 $a 249 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 505 0 $a Introduction: Sickness and Death -- The Ground Rolled Like Waves: The New Madrid Earthquakes -- Deadly Winds: Tornadoes -- Water from Bluff to Bluff: The Flood of 1844 -- The Unappeasable God: The Flood of 1927 -- The Ducks Came and Men Died: The Armistice Day Blizzard -- The Worst-Case Scenario: The Flood of 1965 -- The River Kept Rising -- Uncomfortably Fragile: Snags and Sinking Steamboats -- Burned to the Water's Edge: Steamboat Fires -- Primed to Blow: Boiler Explosions -- Going Home: The Sultana -- Let Us All Die Together: The Monmouth -- Shattered Reminders of Our Weakness: The Sea Wing -- Sporting Girls: Brothels on the River -- The River Never Ran Dry: Moonshiners -- In the Mississippi River: A Double Murder -- Hot Coals Rained Down from the Sky: The St. Louis Fire of 1849 -- When the Walls Caved In: The Milford Mine Disaster -- Tragedy at Rush Hour: The I-35W Bridge Collapse -- Death Is Wielding His Scythe: The Cholera Pandemic -- Tormenting Insects: Mosquito-Borne Diseases -- Someone to Blame: Drownings. 520 $a "In this book, author and Mississippi River historian Dean Klinkenberg explores the many disastrous events to have occurred on and along the river in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries-from steamboat explosions, to Yellow Fever epidemics, floods, and Prohibition piracy. Enjoy this journey into the darkest deeds of the Mississippi River"-- $c Provided by publisher. 651 0 $a Mississippi River $x History. 650 0 $a Floods $z Mississippi River Valley $x History. 650 0 $a River life $z Mississippi River $x History. 650 0 $a Disasters $z Mississippi River $x History. 650 0 $a Steamboat disasters $z Mississippi River. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Klinkenberg, Dean. $t Mississippi River mayhem $d Guilford, Connecticut : Globe Pequot, [2022] $z 9781493060733 $w (DLC) 2022039716 941 $a 6 952 $l HOPC845 $d 20240521010921.0 952 $l WSPF215 $d 20231220010842.0 952 $l YTPG232 $d 20221208011644.0 952 $l TFPI826 $d 20221004012137.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20221004010401.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20220902013009.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F3E4E7902A8611EDB7025AE94EECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b BUPInitiate Another SILO Locator Search