Gary Krist
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 315 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In February 1910, a monstrous blizzard centered on Washington State hit the Northwest, breaking records. Near the tiny town of Wellington, high in the Cascade Mountains, two trainloads of cold, hungry passengers and their crews found their railcars gradually being buried in the rising drifts. For days, an army of the Great Northern Railroad's most dedicated men worked round-the-clock to rescue the trains. But the storm was unrelenting, and to the...