What was the Great Chicago Fire?
"Did the Great Chicago Fire really start after a cow kicked over a lantern in a barn? Find out the truth in this addition to the What Was? series. On Sunday, October 8, 1871, a fire started on the south side of Chicago. A long drought made the neighborhood go up in flames. And practically everything...
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New York, New York :
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- What Was the Great Chicago Fire?
- Buckets, Hoses, and Horses
- Firefighters
- The Center of the Country
- A Disaster Waiting to Happen
- Mrs. O'Leary's Shed
- "Everything Went Wrong"
- Across the River
- Escape
- Camping in the Cemetery
- Finally!
- After the Fire
- Rebuilding
- The Little Chicago Fire
- Timelines.
