The Great Chicago Fire

by Ross Miller

Book Overview

On October 8, 1871, four decades after its founding, Chicago's destiny was rewritten "with a pen of fire." In this imaginative and penetrating study, Ross Miller considers the mythic proportions of the Great Chicago Fire as the city reshaped its own tragedy into an archetype of the modern struggle against adversity.
Amid myriad eyewitness and photographic accounts of the fire, a consideration of what had actually happened was quickly subordinated...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252069145
• ISBN13: 9780252069147
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"