I recently read this book and really enjoyed it.  History is not my usual genre, so I was wondering if anyone could recommend similar natural disaster or pioneer type books.

Thanks!

That is a great book!  I also read The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan and it made you feel like you were standing in the grit and heat. 

Thanks!  I will check that out.

Isaac's Storm, by Eric Larson , is an excellent book about the Galveston hurricane in the early 1900's.  I read Rising Tide, by John M. Barry, after Hurricane Katrina, to find out why so many people in parts of Louisiana felt that there was a conspiracy in how Katrina was handled.  It was an excellent book that opened my eyes to a lot of things.  An American Insurrection, by William Doyle, was an excellent book about the integration of Ole Miss, which I enjoyed, and which also was eye opening.  I read The Children's Blizzard; it was a good book, but very sad, I thought.

Pam

I second the recommendation for Issac's Storm. I saw a documentory about it on the Discover channel and got the book immediately.  It was excellent - sometimes people can be so stupid.