The Great Chicago Fire

✍ Scribed by David Lowe

Publisher: Dover Publications
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Subjects

History; Nonfiction; HIS000000

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