13926 Binfords & Mort, Publishers Portland, Oregon, USA 1960 First Edition Dust Jacket Good Hard Cover Good Red cloth on boards. Volume is lightly cocked. Jacket has a smooth pressure tear down the front spine fold, still attached at the bottom, not readily apparent now that it is in a clear cover, a small piece missing at the front spine fold as well. Now in clear cover. Ruby El Hult writes of each person who lived to tell of snow burial high in the Cascades, of a fire that darkened much of the world. The train wreck at Wellington, Washington is still, fifty years later, one of the nation's worst railroad wrecks, the collision occurred as an avalanche was forming 2000 feet above the wreck site, resulting in sliding snow that swept both trains, with passengers and crew to the bottom of a 400 foot canyon. The fire, in two unbelievable days took almost the entire Bitter Root Mountain Range, whole towns and individual homes, and then raced through the mines. The timber burned would have loaded a freight train reaching all the way from Seattle, Washington to Chicago and on to St. Louis. The smoke cloud caused the famous Five Dark Days in the United States and mushrooming out, reached one third of the way around the world." $22.00USD
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