The great fire
By weaving personal accounts of actual survivors together with the carefully researched history of Chicago and the disaster, [the author] constructs a ... narrative that recreates the events.... And finally, he reveals how, even in a time of deepest despair, the human spirit triumphed, as the people...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Scholastic Inc.,
c1995.
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Table of Contents:
- A city ready to burn
- "Everything went wrong!"
- "The dogs of hell were upon the housetops"
- "A surging ocean of flame"
- "Chicago is in flames"
- "The ghost of Chicago"
- Myth and reality.
