Black Water, Human Hands: Buffalo Creek and the Moral Geography of Disaster

Black Water, Human Hands is a deeply researched and emotionally powerful examination of the Buffalo Creek flood of February 26, 1972—one of the deadliest and most preventable industrial disasters in American history. In the narrow coal hollows of Logan County, West Virginia, a coal-waste dam owned by the Pittston Coal Company collapsed after days of heavy rain, unleashing more than 130 million gal...