The rain wizard

By Larry Dane Brimner

Subjects: California, juvenile literature, Juvenile literature, Biography, Floods, juvenile literature, Rain-making, Floods, Weather control, History

Description: In 1915, the city of San Diego hired "rainmaker" Charles Mallory Hatfield to save their city from a drought, but when the town experienced one of the worst floods they ever had they refused to pay Hatfield for his services.