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The West Plains Dance Hall Explosion (Disaster)

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The 1928 explosion that transformed a West Plains dance hall into a raging inferno sparked feverish national media attention and decades of bitterness within the Missouri the town it tore apart. And at the same time as the tale inspired a well-liked country song, the firestorm that claimed thirty-nine lives remains an unsolved mystery. On this first book at the notorious catastrophe, Lin Waterhouse presents a clear account of the development and its aftermath that judiciously weighs conflicting testimony and deeply respects the private anguish experienced by parents forced to spot their children by their clothing and personal trinkets.

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