A detailed account of a devastating hurricane that hit Galveston, Texas on September 8, 1900, including photographs of the wreckage.

Spur Award Nominee: How Galveston, Texas, reinvented itself after historic disaster: “A riveting narrative . . . Absorbing [and] well-illustrated.” —Libra

One hundred years after the hurricane of 1900 devastated Galveston, Texas, it remains the most deadly natural disaster in United States history. Although many h

From the bestselling author of The Devil in the White City, here is the true story of the deadliest hurricane in history. National Bestseller September 8, 1900,

In this work, witnesses to this deadly disaster describe, in many never-before-published accounts, their encounters with this monstrous storm.