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  Title

  The Great Chicago Fire and the myth of Mrs. O'Leary's cow

  Author

  Bales, Richard F., 1951-  

  Publisher:

  McFarland & Co.,

  Pub date:

  c2002.

  Pages:

  xii, 338 p. :

  ISBN:

  0786414243

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    Type/Location	Call Number	Copies	Format
    Adult: Non-fiction	977.311 BAL	1	Book

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  The Great Chicago Fire and the myth of Mrs. O'Leary's cow
  Bales, Richard F., 1951-
  
  
  

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  Personal Author:

  Bales, Richard F., 1951-

  Title:

  The Great Chicago Fire and the myth of Mrs. O'Leary's cow / by Richard F. Bales ; foreword by Thomas F. Schwartz.

  Publication info:

  Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2002.

  Physical description:

  xii, 338 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.

  Contents:

  A city on fire -- The exoneration of Mrs. O'Leary -- Debunking other myths -- The real cause -- The inquiry, charade or coverup? -- Mrs. O'Leary's legacy -- Questions, mysteries, and controversies -- Behind the conclusions -- "How it originated" -- Selections from the transcript of the inquiry -- The board's final report.

  Subject term:

  Great Fire, Chicago, Ill., 1871.

  Geographic term:

  Chicago (Ill.)--History--To 1875.

  key:

  BK0003963342

  ISBN:

  0786414243 : HRD $45.00