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Train crash at Crush, Texas : America's deadliest publicity stunt /
- Title
- Train crash at Crush, Texas : America's deadliest publicity stunt / Mike Cox.
- Author
- Cox, Mike, 1948-
- Publication
- Charleston, SC : The History Press, 2019.
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- Description
- 223 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm
- Summary
- "On September 15, 1896, Crush boasted the highest population in Texas. Built near Waco, the town provided the staging ground for a publicity stunt ramming two trains together at top speed. Showrunner and Katy Railroad official William Crush thought he had planned for every contingency. But when elephant-sized chunks of steam locomotive began raining down into the packed stands, the extravaganza quickly unraveled into one of the Lone Star State's most confounding tragedies. The soon-to-be famous Scott Joplin commemorated the debacle in "The Great Crush Collision March," and entrepreneurs like "Head-On Joe" Connolly of Iowa continued the tradition of the staged locomotive duel for decades. But the stupefying incident still slipped into the back pages of Texas lore. In the first-ever book on the subject, writer-historian Mike Cox finally tells the full story of the Crash at Crush."--Back cover.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-216) and index.
- ISBN
- 9781467139342
- 1467139343
- LCCN
- 2019939742
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library