which inspired Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe to write the song "They Call the Wind Maria" for their 1951 musical Paint Your Wagon. Storm was dramatized as A Storm Called Maria on the November 2, 1959 episode of ABC's Walt Disney Presents. Co-produced by Ken Nelson Productions, it blended newsreel footage of several different storms to represent the mega-storm in the novel and traced the storm from its origins in Japan to the coast of California. The cast included non-actors, among them the dam superintendent George Kritsky, the telephone lineman Walt Bowen, and the highway superintendent Leo Quinn. Another novel, Fire (1948), and an historical work, Ordeal by Hunger (1936), also evoked environmental catastrophes. Bibliography The Technique of English Verse (1930) Bret Harte: Argonaut and Exile (1931) English Composition, A Laboratory Course, (1936) Ordeal by Hunger: The Story of the Donner Party (1936; rpt. 1992). John Phoenix (1937) East of the Giants (1938) Doctor's Oral (1939) Take your Bible in one hand;: The life of William Henry Thomes, author of A whaleman's adventures on land and sea, Lewey and I, The bushrangers, A gold hunter's adventures, etc., 1939 Storm (1941; rpt. 2003). Names on the Land: an historical account of place-naming in the United States (1945; reprinted 1958, 1967 [Sentry paperback], 2008). Man, An Autobiography (1946) Fire (1948) Earth Abides (1949; rpt. 2006). The Year of the Oath (in collaboration) (1950) Sheep Rock (1951) The Opening of the California Trail: the story of the Stevens party by Moses Schallenberger, 1888; edited 1953 U.S. 40: Cross Section of the United States of America (1953) American Ways of Life (1954) These Men My Friends (1954) To California by Covered Wagon (1954). Reprinted as Pioneers Go West (1987) The Years of the City (1955) N.A. 1: The North-South Continental Highway (1957) Pickett's Charge: A Microhistory of the Final Attack at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863, 1959 Revised in 1963. The California Trail (1962) Committee of Vigilance (1964) Good Lives (1967) Not So Rich as You Think (1968) The Department of English at the University of California, Berkeley (1968) A Concise Dictionary of American Place-Names (1970) Names on the Globe (1975) American Given Names (1979). See also Tropical cyclone naming George R. Stewart Peak References Sources "Scott, Donald, The Life and Truth of George R. Stewart; A Literary Biography of the Author of EARTH ABIDES". . "George R. Stewart, toponymist", Names, Volume 24, 1976,