![]() ![]() We meet little Gertrude again later her looming adventures would make Indiana Jones envious. In this case, we are introduced to 6-year-old Gertrude Quinn, who, we are told, was scolded on May 31, 1889, for getting her shoes wet in the rising waters that were lapping against her yard in Johnstown. And we can all agree that a disaster book that opens with the description of an adorable little girl has plenty of dread in store for readers. Good guys and bad guys populate every page. Roker’s Ruthless Tide offers a hint of what’s to come with its subtitle, The Heroes and Villains of the Johnstown Flood, America’s Astonishing Gilded Age Disaster. Plenty, according to TV weatherman Al Roker. Historian David McCullough’s The Johnstown Flood, published in 1968, was considered the final word. Books, articles, first-person accounts, and endless studies have looked at the calamity from every possible angle. No disaster in American history has been written about more than the Johnstown Flood of 1889. ![]()
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