Images of America - St. Francis Dam Disaster

(Arcadia Publishing,
Chicago, Illinois, 2002) 

by John Nichols            Cost: $19.99 (see merchandise page)

An pictorial overview of the St. Francis Dam Disaster as reviewed and seen from the authors point of view.  "I have pored over pages of old newspapers and the crumbling black pages of old photo albums. I have read and collected all the books printed on the subject. I have examined with a powerful lens the photographs that have been given to me for research, looking for elusive details that only a snapshot could reveal." by John Nichols.

Man-Made Disaster - The Story of the St. Francis Dam (The Arthur H. Clark Company, Glendale, California, 1963 & 1977) 

by Charles F. Outland         cost: $24.00    (see merchandise page)

The St. Francis Dam Disaster - Revisited (Historical Society of Southern California, Ventura County Museum of History and Art,
The Arthur H. Clark Company, Spokane, Washington, 1995) 

by J. David Rogers              Cost: $18.00 (see merchandise page)

Rivers in the Desert (Harper Collins Publisher, New York, 1993)
by Margaret Leslie Davis


The Death of the Dam, a Chapter in Southern California History  (Kittle Printing Co., Bishop, California 1971) by Charles H. Lawarance

The Ventura Historical Society Quarterly, Dam Break  vol. 29 no. 2  (Ventura Historical Society, Ventura, California, 1984)  by Clifford E. Hey and Patricia Allen 


Water Under the Dam (Vantage Press,  New York, 1955) by Clarence Rowley Van Sant


William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles (University of California Press, Berkeley, California, 2000)  by Catherine Mulholland
Written by William Mulhollands' daughter, Catherine,  this is an account of the interactive rise of the city of Los Angeles and the building of a Dam no one could have imagined could have happened. 

William Mulholland: a Forgotten Forefather (University of the Pacific, Stockton, California, 1976)
by Robert William Matson


Me Detective  (Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1936)  by Leslie T. White 


Other notable books used for research and interest:

Cadillac Desert, the American West and its Desapperaring Water Resource, The  (Penguine Books, New York, 1986)by Marc Reisner

Vision of Villiany (Texas A&M University Press, Texas, 1981)  by Abraham Hoffman

Water and Power (University of California Press, Berkeley, 1983)  by William Kahrl

The Water Seekers (Peregrine Smith, Inc. Santa Barbara, 1974)    by Remi Nadeau

Western Times and Water Wars (University of California Press, Berkeley, California, 1992)
by John Walton

Reference materials also provided by DogTown Territorial Quarterly

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