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Earthquake: 1906


Santa Rosa City Hall

Santa Rosa City Hall -- Quake torn bulding

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Picture is example of photos


    "Early on April 18, 1906, an awesome force of nature burst out of the Pacific off Humbolt Bay, raced southward along the San Andreas Fault at two miles a second, skirted the coastline to demolish towns and sink at least one steamer, and smashed ashore at Point Arena. Shocks raced across the Golden Gate and through San Francisco, wrecked the Stanford University campus and Agnews State Insane Asylum, sped down the Salinas Valley and the Coastal Ranges, and leaped the Tehachapis into southern California.

    San Francisco felt the earthquake's first jolt just after 5:00 A.M. Within minutes, hundreds (some say thousands) were dead and many more were injured, debris made streets impassable, water and gas mains burst, and fires set by toppled stoves and chimneys merged into a giant inferno. For the next three days, flames consumed Tar Flat and Nob Hill with no regard to class distinctions; before the blaze was extinguished more than 200,000 people were homeless. Assistance arrived from as nearby as Oakland and as far away as Japan, and spectators followed -- not only the merely curious but also photographers determined to perserve the tragedy on film." (William A. Bullough)

    The Elusive Eden: A New History of California by Richard B. Rice & William A. Bullough & Richard J. Orsi

    More quake information



R. Easton I. R. Egli J. Eisen G. Elder G. Endore
W. Everson P. Everwine



Easton, Robert
The Happy ManFiction
Power and GloryFiction
Fiction

Eaton, Edith (aka sui Sin Far)
Mrs. Spring FragranceAnthology1910

Egli, Ida Rae
No Rooms of Their OwnAnthology

Eisen, Jonathan and David Fine
Unknown California: Classic and Contemporary Writing on California Culture, Society, History, and PoliticsAnthologyNew York, Collier Books, Macmillan Publishing Co.1985

Elder, Gary
Hold FirePoetry

Endore, Guy
Methinks the LadyFiction

Everson, William (aka Brother Antoninus) (1912 - 1994)

    "William Everson was born in Sacramento and raised in Selma. He is recognized as a major American poet of the 20th century and the first great poet to emerge from the Central Valley. Inspired by the poetry of Robinson Jeffers, Everson began writing poems in the 1930s. He converted to Catholicism and joined the Dominican Order of the Catholic church as a monk in 1951. Although still a monk, he was associated with the San Francisco Beat Poets, and he left the order in 1969 to marry. Everson was the author of over forty volumes of poetry; th most recent, The Blood of the Poet ( 1994) was published the year Everson died."

    Highway 99: a Literary Journey Through California's Great Central Valley edited by Stan Yogi

Archetype WestNonfiction

The Blood of the PoetNonfiction
1994
Man-Fate: The Swan Song of Brother AntoninusPoetry

The Masks of DroughtPoetry

The Residual YearsPoetry

San JoaquinPoetry

The Veritable YearsPoetry


Everwine, Peter
Collecting the AnimalsPoetry
From the MeadowPoetry
Keeping the NightPoetry






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