![]() ![]() Especially helpful are maps placed at intervals throughout the book that represent the progress of the fire. ![]() By weaving personal accounts of actual survivors together with careful research, Jim Murphy constructs a riveting and dramatic narrative, ultimately revealing how the. This volume, beautifully printed in sepia tones, contains historic photos, engravings and newspaper clippings on nearly every page. The Great Fire of 1871 was one of the most colossal disasters in American historywith damage so profound that few people believed the city of Chicago could ever rise again. ![]() Strategically quoting the written accounts of witnesses-who include a 12-year-old girl and a newspaper editor-Murphy both charts the 31-hour spread of the fire and conveys the atmosphere in the streets. Overnight, the flourshing city of Chicago was transformed into a smoldering wasteland. Murphy demonstrates that the fire could have been contained: he unfolds a tale of botched communication, class discrimination (the fire began in a working-class section of the city and only later spread to the wealthier areas) and plain old bad luck. 2,480 Ratings The Great Fire of 1871 was one of most colossal disasters in American history.Now Murphy (The Boys' War Across America on an Emigrant Train) lays bare the facts concerning one of the biggest disasters in American history, in the process exculpating the maligned bovine and her owner. O'Leary and her cow have shouldered the blame for Chicago's infamous Great Fire of 1871. ![]()
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