โ Scribed by Mabel McIlvaine (ed.)
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The Lakeside Classics #013: Reminiscences of Chicago During the Great Fire
Originally published, 1915.
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First flames -- Growing panic -- Total disaster -- After the ashes -- More about the Chicago fire.;In graphic novel format, tells the story of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, an inferno that forever changed the city's skyline.
After a hot and very dry summer, Chicago was largely a wooden tinderbox awaiting a spark that would come on the Sunday night of October 8, 1871. What became known as the Great Chicago Fire was a massive firestorm that moved faster than most men could run, fueled by southwest winds of at least 30 mil
<p>Definitive treatment of 1871 fire — one of the greatest disasters in American history — includes eyewitness accounts and before-and-after illustrations. 70 photographs and engravings.
What really happened in Mrs. OLearys barn that autumn night in Chicago? Though no one knows for sure, what is certain is someone, or something, started a load of hay on fire, and the city of Chicago would never be the same. The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 raged for more than 24 hours, obliterating th