Phillip Cesena transferred to San Franciscquito Canyon in February 1928 to work as a ranch hand, mucking out stalls and exercising ranch animals. Phillip Cesena, 15, showing off his trick riding he ...

In San Francisquito Canyon, the remains of the concrete St. Francis Dam stand as a chilling testament to one of California’s deadliest disasters. Collapsing in 1928 and releasing over 12 billion ...

Trace the devastation of the 1928 St. Francis Dam collapse and its deadly flood. Author Geoff Manaugh joins Nathan to understand the 1928 St. Francis Dam collapse, which unleashed a deadly flood that ...

William Mulholland was the savior of Southern California until he wasn’t Matt Blitz The front page of the Los Angeles Times on March 14, 1928 Los Angeles Times It was three minutes before the stroke ...

As climate change continues to intensify, California’s dam infrastructure could be put to the test. Dam safety has always been a high-stakes operation — when the St. Francis dam gave way in 1928, over ...

Mulholland : a man and an aqueduct -- The dam : site selection and design -- The dam : construction, operation, failure -- Disaster unleashed -- Responsibility and reparations -- The politics of ...

"This publication is the Southern California quarterly, LXXVII, Nos. 1-2 (Spring/Summer 1995) and the Ventura County Historical Society Quarterly, 40, Nos. 3-4 (Spring/Summer 1995)"--T.p. verso. siris ...

Trace the devastation of the 1928 St. Francis Dam collapse and its deadly flood. Author Geoff Manaugh joins Nathan to understand the 1928 St. Francis Dam collapse, which unleashed a deadly flood that ...

The front page of the Los Angeles Times on March 14, 1928 Los Angeles Times It was three minutes before the stroke of midnight on a windy March 12, 1928, when the St. Francis Dam broke. Many of the ...