Philip L. Fradkin

Stagecoach: Wells Fargo and the American West

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The Backstories of Selected Works

Nonfiction
Wallace Stegner and the American West
The definitive life of the West's outstanding writer, teacher of writers, and conservationist.
A River No More: The Colorado River and the West
The use and abuse of the West's lifeblood, water.
Fallout: An American Nuclear Tragedy
Radioactive fallout from the Nevada Test Site caused innocent people to die.
Magnitude 8: Earthquakes and Life Along the San Andreas Fault (Volume I in the Earthquake Trilogy)
A history and description of earthquakes in general, the San Andreas Fault in particular, and a discussion of the adequacy of the science of seismology.
Wildest Alaska: Journeys of Great Peril in Lituya Bay (Volume II in the Earthquake Trilogy)
Giant waves, five hundred feet higher than the Empire State Building, sweep a remote Alaska Bay.
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