Isaias Hellman, a Jewish immigrant, arrived in California in 1859 together with very little money in his pocket and his brother Herman by his side. By the time he died, he had effectively transformed Los Angeles into the modern metropolis we see today. In Frances Dinkelspiel's groundbreaking history, the early days of ...
“Pitilessly compelling, the sort of saga devoured in one horrified sitting.”—National Geographic Adventure
The Thirtymile Fire in the North Cascade Range near the Canadian border of Washington began as a neat mop-up operation; in a few hours, a series of catastrophic errors led to the entrapment and deaths of ...