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Book Synopsis The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 by : Kay Melchisedech Olson
Download or read book The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 written by Kay Melchisedech Olson and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2006-08 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In graphic novel format, tells the story of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, an inferno that forever changed the city's skyline.
Book Synopsis The Great Chicago Fire by : Ross Miller
Download or read book The Great Chicago Fire written by Ross Miller and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the great Chicago fire of 1871 and the rebuilding that followed, focusing on how the city manipulated the tragedy into a lasting myth about the modern struggle against adversity.
Book Synopsis The Great Chicago Fire by : Robert Cromie
Download or read book The Great Chicago Fire written by Robert Cromie and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dramatic story of the holocaust of 1871 by a Chicago journalist.
Book Synopsis The Great Chicago Fire by : David Lowe
Download or read book The Great Chicago Fire written by David Lowe and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-07-12 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis "The Great Calamity!" by : Alfred L. Sewell
Download or read book "The Great Calamity!" written by Alfred L. Sewell and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis What Was the Great Chicago Fire? by : Janet B. Pascal
Download or read book What Was the Great Chicago Fire? written by Janet B. Pascal and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 that could go wrong did. Firemen first went to the wrong location. Fierce winds helped the blaze jump the Chicago River twice. The Chicago Waterworks burned down, making it impossible to fight the fire. Finally after two days, Mother Nature took over, with rain smothering the flames. This overview of a stupendous disaster not only covers the fire but explores the whole history of fire fighting.
Book Synopsis The Story of the Great Chicago Fire, 1871 by : Mary Kay Phelan
Download or read book The Story of the Great Chicago Fire, 1871 written by Mary Kay Phelan and published by Ty Crowell Company. This book was released on 1971-01-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the causes, events, and aftermath of the 1871 fire that destroyed a large area of Chicago.
Book Synopsis The Great Chicago Fire Of 1871 by : Paul Bennie
Download or read book The Great Chicago Fire Of 1871 written by Paul Bennie and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What really happened in Mrs. O'Leary's barn that autumn night in Chicago? Though no one knows for sure, what is certain is someone, or something, ignited 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 the downtown and sparking a mass exodus to the prairies and lake. The flames grew so hot that they melted iron and marble, and the twisting winds tore the roofs off houses. The individual stories of courage and tragedy, recounted by survivors who fought for their lives, captivated a nation and elicited an outpouring of aid. The stricken city would rise again, but its tale of near extinction would remain one of America's most defining legends.
Download or read book Great Chicago Fire written by L.L. Owens and published by ABDO Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the events when a small barn fire ignited into one of the greatest urban disasters in U.S. history.
Book Synopsis The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 by : Christy Marx
Download or read book The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 written by Christy Marx and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2003-12-15 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the 1871 fire that destroyed much of Chicago, Illinois, examining its causes, the resulting devastation, and its aftermath.
Book Synopsis The Great Chicago Fire by : Michael Regan
Download or read book The Great Chicago Fire written by Michael Regan and published by Lerner Publications. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On October 8, 1871, a fierce fire broke out in the bustling city of Chicago. Jumping rivers and burning miles of buildings and homes, the flames raged for more than two days. More than a hundred people died, and thousands were left homeless. Could the city have prevented this blaze? To understand the impact of a disaster, you must understand its causes. How did Chicago's building methods add fuel to the fire? How did human error delay help when the fire broke out? Investigate the disaster from a cause-and-effect perspective and find out!
Book Synopsis I Survived the Great Chicago Fire, 1871 (I Survived #11) by : Lauren Tarshis
Download or read book I Survived the Great Chicago Fire, 1871 (I Survived #11) written by Lauren Tarshis and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Could an entire city really burn to the ground? Oscar Starling never wanted to come to Chicago. But then Oscar finds himself not just in the heart of the big city, but in the middle of a terrible fire! No one knows exactly how it began, but one thing is clear: Chicago is like a giant powder keg about to explode.An army of firemen is trying to help, but this fire is a ferocious beast that wants to devour everything in its path, including Oscar! Will Oscar survive one of the most famous and devastating fires in history? Lauren Tarshis brings history's most exciting and terrifying events to life in this New York Times-bestselling series. Readers will be transported by stories of amazing kids and how they survived!
Book Synopsis The Great Chicago Fire by : Marc Tyler Nobleman
Download or read book The Great Chicago Fire written by Marc Tyler Nobleman and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2005-07 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the 1871 Chicago fire, its causes, the devastation it caused, and the aftermath.
Download or read book Smoldering City written by Karen Sawislak and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1995-12-15 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the various debates the city faced after the Chicago fire in dealing with homelessness, the care and feeding of much of the population and the problem of rebuilding amidst political chaos and people working at cross purposes. Explains the events that led up to the Chicago fire: intensely dry conditions, a 20-m.p.h. southwest wind, and an unfortunate spark at 10 o"clock on the night of Oct. 8 all combined to turn Chicago into a "vast ocean of flame". The rift between the immigrant working class and the wealthy 'native-born' Chicagoans made Catherine O'Leary (and her famous cow) a perfect scapegoat for anti-Irish, anti-working class invective. Provides historical maps, plates and engravings, with an epilogue and notes.
Book Synopsis Chicago's Great Fire by : Carl Smith
Download or read book Chicago's Great Fire written by Carl Smith and published by Atlantic Monthly Press. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an acclaimed historian, the full and authoritative story of one of the most iconic disasters in American history, told through the vivid memories of those who experienced it Between October 8""10, 1871, much of the city of Chicago was destroyed by one of the most legendary urban fires in history. Incorporated as a city in 1837, Chicago had grown at a breathtaking pace in barely three decades, from just over 4,000 in 1840 to greater than 330,000 at the time of the fire. Built hastily, the city was largely made of wood. Once it began in the barn of Catherine and Patrick O'Leary, the Fire quickly grew out of control, twice jumping branches of the Chicago River on its relentless northeastward path through the city's three divisions. Close to one of every three Chicago residents was left homeless and more were instantly unemployed, though the death toll was miraculously low. Remarkably, no carefully researched popular history of the Great Chicago Fire has been written until now, despite it being one of the most cataclysmic disasters in US history. Building the story around memorable characters, both known to history and unknown, including the likes of General Philip Sheridan and Robert Todd Lincoln, eminent Chicago historian Carl Smith chronicles the city's rapid growth and place in America's post-Civil War expansion. The dramatic story of the fire--revealing human nature in all its guises--became one of equally remarkable renewal, as Chicago quickly rose back up from the ashes thanks to local determination and the world's generosity and faith in Chicago's future. As we approach the fire's 150th anniversary, Carl Smith's compelling narrative at last gives this epic event its full and proper place in our national chronicle.
Book Synopsis The Great Chicago Fire by : John Boda
Download or read book The Great Chicago Fire written by John Boda and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 miles per hour. The heat was so intense it melted stone and brick buildings in minutes and turned sand on the lakeshore into glass. A total of 18,000 buildings were destroyed. About 100,000 were left homeless, and over 300 lost their lives. The very same day, and nearly the same hour, both the Lower Peninsula of Michigan and Peshtigo, Wisconsin, suffered similar firestorms. Peshtigo's was even worse, creating an event that came to be known as "the Peshtigo Paradigm." Many people believe the three fires forming a huge triangle of destruction were related as one with cosmic causes, and it remains a mystery to this day.
Book Synopsis History of the Great Chicago Fire, October 8, 9, and 10, 1871 by :
Download or read book History of the Great Chicago Fire, October 8, 9, and 10, 1871 written by and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
